Kim, Hyun Sook

Summary: "The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020

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Fischer, Paul

Summary: "A nonfiction thriller packed with tension, passion, and politics, [this book] offers a rare glimpse into a secretive world, illuminating a fascinating chapter of North Korea's history that helps explain how it became the hermetically sealed, intensely stage-managed country it remains today"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2015

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Lee, Stephan

Summary: "In the sequel to K-Pop Confidential, Candace is a Rookie idol. Her life is suddenly filled with the fans, cameras, and glamor of stardom: She and her boyfriend, YoungBae, are a K-Pop power couple; she's a walking icon at Brandt Foreign School; and her new girl group, known simply as THE GIRLS, is poised to break records across the industry. With her status as the industry's K-Pop Warrior, she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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Cha, Frances

Summary: "Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a 'room salon', an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. Her roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020

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Blevins, Wiley

Summary: The east Asian nation of South Korea is a land of gorgeous natural landscapes, with green forests, towering mountains, and ocean beaches. It is also a land of sprawling, modern cities. Readers will meet up with Wook-jin and Yu-na, their local guides, as they explore everything South Korea has to offer. They ll learn about the country s history, culture, typical lifestyles, and more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2019

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Smith, Niki

Summary: There are few who have made a mark on 2018 quite like BTS, the seven member Korean K-Pop group that is singlehandedly reviving the Age of the Boyband with their electric tracks, explosive dance routines and unnervingly perfect hair. BTS may have been catapulted to international acclaim this year, but there's still a whole world of facts and stories from the six years it took for them to become...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pillr Box Red Publishing Ltd. 2018

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Jung, Jessica

Summary: Six years ago Korean American Rachel Kim was recruited by DB Entertainment, one of Seoul's largest K-pop labels. The rules are simple: Train 24/7. Be perfect. Don't date. Now, as the dark scandals of an industry bent on controlling and commodifying beautiful girls begin to bubble up, Rachel wonders if she is strong enough to be a winner, or if she will end up crushed. When she begins to develop...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2020

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DuBois, Jill

Summary: "As Korean pop music, skincare trends, food, and television dramas have exploded in popularity far beyond the borders of the nation they came from, many young people have become curious about South Korean culture. This comprehensive guide provides them with more details about South Korea's entertainment industry and cuisine, but it also presents essential facts about this nation's history,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2024

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Ma, Yŏng-sin

Summary: "A novelist, single, forty-four years old. A painter, divorced, forty-six years old. A musician, single, forty-two years old. On the outer limits of relevancy in an arts culture that celebrates youth, these three men make up the artist group Arcade. Caught in circular arguments about what makes real art and concerned about the vapid interests of their younger contemporaries, none of them are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2022

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Monsta X (Musical group)

Contents: 01. Fantasia -- 02. Flow -- 03. Zone -- 04. Chaotic -- 05. Beautiful Night -- 06. It ain't Over -- 07. Stand Up.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Day6 (Musical group)

Contents: Deep in love -- Sweet chaos -- Emergency -- Rescue me -- 365247 -- About now -- Ouch -- Not fine -- Stop talking -- Not mine -- Like a flowing wind.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Shin, Kyung-sook

Summary: "Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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Monsta X (Musical group)

Contents: Love killer -- Kalchŭng -- Thriller -- Guess who -- Nobody else -- Beastmode -- Taedong tan'gyŏl -- Night view -- Last carnival -- Sorry I'm not sorry.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: A retrospective look at the Korean War and the years of prosperity that followed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Remember My Service Productions 2013

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Summary: A retrospective look at the Korean War and the years of prosperity that followed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Remember My Service Productions, a division of StoryRock, Inc., in cooperation with Seoul Selection 2017

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Shin, Chung Hyun.

Contents: Beautiful woman (4:29) -- Think (4:25) -- I think there was someone else (5:50) -- Long, long night (4:34) -- I love you (3:08) -- Lady (4:06) -- Anticipation (4:18) -- I've got nothing to say (4:21) -- I do not know (3:04) -- The rising sun (instrumental) (6:59).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Productions 2012

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Contents: Intro: calling (1:24) -- Stay gold (4:03) -- Boy with luv (3:51) -- Make it right (3:45) -- Dionysus (4:08) -- Idol (3:42) -- Airplane pt.2 (3:40) -- Fake love (4:03) -- Black swan (3:18) -- On (4:08) -- Lights (4:52) -- Your eyes tell (4:05) -- Outro: the journey (1:16).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hip-O 2020

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Stray Kids (Musical group)

Contents: Case 143 (3:11) -- Shik'yŏ = Chill (3:15) -- Give me your TMI (3:18) -- Super board (3:05) -- 3racha (3:28) -- Taste (3:36) -- Na nŏ choahanabwa = Can't stop (3:29) -- Circus (Korean ver.) (3:14).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: An effortless mix of light and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine is the story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband's provincial hometown for a fresh start.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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