Download or read book Eerie Tales from Old Korea written by Brother Anthony of Taizé and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer B. Hulbert and James S. Gale, two of the most famous North American missionaries to come to Korea in the 1880s, were very fond of ghost stories, but for years the Korean scholars they met swore that no such stories existed in Korea. Eventually, they discovered that Korea, too, had a plentiful supply of ghosts and spirits, celebrated in many eerie tales. However, because the stories had seemed too frivolous or were connected with shamanism and Buddhism, the scholars had been ashamed to talk about them. A main source of these stories were collections of yadam. These were a form of short tale, especially popular in the Joseon period. Whereas Confucian classics were the gateway to officialdom, yadam offered an escape valve, dealing with things much closer to daily life. The stories told there were about individuals who were not always admirable paragons of Confucian virtue; rather, they were often artful dodgers who managed to escape from tricky situations; survive traps; deal with ghosts, spirits, and nine-tailed foxes; and even get rich in the process. As we celebrate the one hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Hulbert and Gale, the present selection of Korean ghost stories—nostalgic for their echoes of the lost world of old Korea and its many ghosts—is offered for the pleasure of readers in the twenty-first century, one hundred years after their original publication.
Download or read book Romantic Tales from Old Korea written by Brother Anthony of Taizé and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korea’s most widely loved romantic tales : Chunhyang and Sim Cheong There are not many old Korean love tales, but everyone knows the story of Chunhyang. In 1892, the first Korean to visit Paris, Hong Jong-u, helped publish a French version of the story of Chunhyang. Titled “Fragrant Springtime” (the meaning of “Chunhyang”), it is the first Korean story ever published in a western language. A couple of years later, a second, more developed novel set in Korea was published, “ A Dead Tree Blossoms.” It includes parts of the story of Sim Cheong and her blind father, but is very different in many unexpected ways. In 1919 an English translation of it was published in the US, but nobody noticed it. In this new book, the French version of “Chunhyang” has been translated into English and is published with the 1919 English text of “A Dead Tree Blossoms” and a couple of other Korean love tales translated a hundred or more years ago. Interestingly, the two main stories both express sharp criticism of corrupt officials and a strong concern for social justice.
Download or read book Folk Tales of Old Korea written by Tae-Hung Ha and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Tales of Old Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korean Folk Tales written by Pang Im and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korean folk tales Imps ghosts and fairies written by unknown and published by Literature Translation Institute of Korea. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book K Book Trends Vol 71 written by K-Book Trends and published by Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea(KPIPA). This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K-Book Trends is a web magazine published by the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA). It offers Korea’s highly informative publishing content to those in the global publishing industry, helping the Korean publishing industry build global competitiveness. We produce professional data about promising Korean books for overseas markets and share success cases of Korean publications and copyright export. We also provide those in the global publishing industry with rich information collected from Korea’s major international book fair activities, as well as the latest news on bestselling books, and an overview of the Korean publishing industry. K-Book Trends can be easily read online anywhere in the world either on a PC or mobile device. Readers can also subscribe to receive email newsletters and download the issues in PDF format. K-Book Trends www.kbooktrends.com Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea always look forward to hearing opinions related to K-Book Trends from industry experts and readers.
Download or read book Myths and Legends from Korea written by James H. Grayson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 175 tales drawn equally from the ancient and modern periods of Korea, plus 16 further tales provided for comparative purposes. Nothing else on this scale or depth is available in any western language. Three broad classes of material are included: foundation myths of ancient states and clans, ancient folktales and legends, modern folktales. Each narrative contains information on its source and provenance, and on its folklore type, similarities to folklore types from China, Japan and elsewhere.
Download or read book Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk written by Dennis Wuerthner and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kŭmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493). Kim was a major intellectual and poet of the early Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1897), and this book is widely recognized as marking the beginning of classical fiction in Korea. The present volume features an extensive study of Kim and the Kŭmo sinhwa, followed by a copiously annotated, complete English translation of the tales from the oldest extant edition. The translation captures the vivaciousness of the original, while the annotations reveal the work’s complexity, unraveling the deep and diverse intertextual connections between the Kŭmo sinhwa and preceding works of Chinese and Korean literature and philosophy. The Kŭmo sinhwa can thus be read and appreciated as a hybrid work that is both distinctly Korean and Sino-centric East Asian. A translator’s introduction discusses this hybridity in detail, as well as the unusual life and tumultuous times of Kim Sisŭp; the Kŭmo sinhwa’s creation and its translation and transformation in early modern Japan and twentieth-century (especially North) Korea and beyond; and its characteristics as a work of dissent. Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk will be welcomed by Korean and East Asian studies scholars and students, yet the body of the work—stories of strange affairs, fantastic realms, seductive ghosts, and majestic but eerie beings from the netherworld—will be enjoyed by academics and non-specialist readers alike.
Download or read book KOREAN TALES BEING A COLLECTION OF STORIES TRANSLATED FROM THE KOREAN FOLK LORE written by Horace Newton Allen and published by Literature Translation Institute of Korea. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korean Tales written by Horace Newton Allen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Korean Tales by Horace Newton Allen
Download or read book Korean Folk tales written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty traditional Korean legends and folktales.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea written by James E. Hoare and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Korea (Republic of Korea) is the more successful of the two Koreas in both economic and political terms. Even the Asian economic crisis of 1997–1998, which hit badly, was weathered successfully, and when the next crisis came along in 2007, South Korea coped better than many other countries. This economic strength, taken with the steady progress of democratization since 1987, indicates that when the peninsula is eventually reunified, as one day it probably will be, a new unified Korea will follow the South Korea model rather than that of North Korea. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Korea.
Download or read book Korean Tales written by Horace Newton Allen and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition.
Download or read book Which was Witch written by Eleanore Myers Jewett and published by Viking Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1953 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korean tales of ghosts and magic, spooky enough for Halloween.
Download or read book Korean Tales Being a Collection of Stories Translated from the Korean Folk Lore Together with Introductory Chapters Descriptive of Korea written by Horace Newton Allen and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korean Folktales written by Heinz Insu Fenkl and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ghost stories, legends, supernatural romances, fables, animal and trickster tales -- this is an enthralling, eminently readable collection for anyone who wants to understand the fascinating world of Korean folklore. Heinz Insu Fenkl, an award-winning memoirist, novelist, translator, and scholar, draws on village storytelling traditions and old classics to bring to life these tales from his homeland. Fenkl's wonderful retellings conjure the dreams and visions of a rich cultural legacy infused with drama, mystery, humor, and poignant human dilemmas. What Italo Calvino did for Italian folktales and Jack Zipes did for Grimms' fairy tales in America, master storyteller Heinz Insu Fenkl achieves for Korean folklore." -- Publisher's description.
