Download or read book Returning to the Land of the Morning Calm written by Hans M Hirschi and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin is eighty-four years old, a Korean War veteran, living quietly in a retirement home in upstate New York. His days are ruled by the routine of the staff, but in his thoughts and dreams, Martin often returns to the Seoul of his youth, and the lost true love of his life. Two close friends urge him to travel back to search for his love. What awaits Martin in Korea, more than six decades after he left the country on a troop transport back to the U.S.? Returning to the Land of the Morning Calm is a story of friendship, love and family, in all its many shapes, across time, generations and cultures.
Download or read book Land of Morning Calm written by John Stickler and published by Shen's Books. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey to both ancient and modern Korea, where you will find a rich world of history and traditions that will capture your imagination and whet your appetite for learning more about this fascinating culture.
Download or read book The Evolution of Worlds written by Percival Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War in the Land of the Morning Calm written by Jim Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "WAR IN THE LAND OF THE MORNING CALM contains first-person accounts of men and women who served in the Korean War. There is no plot. There are no explanations of grand strategies or political policies or any of the other bewildering activities behind the scenes of a nation at war. I simply hope that these vignettes, and brief accounts will convey the feelings and experiences of those of us who served." -- from Amazon.com
Download or read book A History of Korea written by Jinwung Kim and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peaceful democracy with a strong economy. Yet their people share a common history that extends back more than 3,000 years. In this comprehensive new history of Korea from the prehistoric era to the present day, Jinwung Kim recounts the rich and fascinating story of the political, social, cultural, economic, and diplomatic developments in Korea's long march to the present. He provides a detailed account of the origins of the Korean people and language and the founding of the first walled-town states, along with the advanced civilization that existed in the ancient land of "Unified Silla." Clarifying the often complex history of the Three Kingdoms Period, Kim chronicles the five-century long history of the Choson dynasty, which left a deep impression on Korean culture. From the beginning, China has loomed large in the history of Korea, from the earliest times when the tribes that would eventually make up the Korean nation roamed the vast plains of Manchuria and against whom Korea would soon define itself. Japan, too, has played an important role in Korean history, particularly in the 20th century; Kim tells this story as well, including the conflicts that led to the current divided state. The first detailed overview of Korean history in nearly a quarter century, this volume will enlighten a new generation of students eager to understand this contested region of Asia.
Download or read book Land of the Morning Calm written by Harry Bryce and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instability, danger, and intrigue follow a U.S. Army lieutenant and his wife in 1968 Korea as they try to safeguard their relationship-and their lives.
Download or read book A Yankee in the Land of the Morning Calm written by Donald Southerton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecticut Yankee Josh Gillet longed for high adventure and travel. Leaving late nineteenth century New England for a sojourn in Japan, Josh soon finds himself in the Hermit Kingdom-Korea. Coming of age is always filled with trial and tribulation. For Josh Gillet, intense life experiences are forged in an ancient land that has become the political chessboard for imperialist powers-amid a bold Protestant missionary movement and Anglo merchants with hopes of wealth. Josh quickly learns that high adventure, opportunity, and a budding romance come at a price as cultures collide.
Download or read book Chos n the land of the morning calm written by P. Lowell and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1888 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corea Or Cho sen written by Arnold Henry Savage Landor and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1895 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home Was The Land Of Morning Calm written by K Connie Kang and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am more American than Korean in my mind, writes K. Connie Kang, "but am more Korean than American in my soul. As for my heart, it is split in half."
Download or read book Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korea: Land of Morning Calm displays the rich history, diverse cultures and striking sights of Korea. Evocative text and stunning photos bring the Korea experience to life, giving readers a taste of what they can expect to see and experience in the "Land of Morning Calm".
Download or read book Return to the Morning Calm written by Jack Heiter and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RETURN TO THE MORNING CALM An American Korean War Veteran, returns to Seoul thirty years after the war and accidently meets a young Korean woman he believes to be his daughter. Searching for enemy in abandoned farmhouses in the Korean countryside during the Korean War, eighteen-year-old American soldier, Greg Strickland, finds frightened sixteen-year-old Hun Sook, hiding in an old clay stove. Seeing that she is starving, he provides her with C-rations and decides not to report her to his commander. He brings her food and clothing on his free time and they become closer and eventually fall in love. One day on patrol, he encounters an enemy soldier hiding in another farmhouse that shoots him in the stomach. His buddies rush him to a field hospital where he is treated and sent back to America, leaving him with only memories of his love for Hun Sook. Thirty years later Greg returns to Seoul as a consultant to a large Korean Architectural firm and is befriended by Kim who is assigned to assist him. Seeing how amazed Greg is at the changes in modern Korea, Kim offers to show him around Seoul. On one of their outings they come upon an antique shop that has an old hand woven basket that catches Greg
Download or read book Home Was The Land Of Morning Calm written by K. Connie Kang and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-07-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist K. Connie Kang renders a moving generational saga in this portrait of her family's passage from their ancestral Korean home. Part family biography, part history, part memoir, this book is an affecting, absorbing tale of family and country, and an essential book for understanding the greatest Asian migration in this century.
Download or read book Even the Smallest Crab Has Teeth 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories written by Jane Albritton and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From land-locked Afghanistan to the smallest of islands in the far reaches of the Pacific Ocean, stories by peace Corps Volunteers from this region come from (mostly) Hindu India—1,269,210 square miles worth of democracy patched together from princely states—Confucian Korea, Muslim Indonesia and Buddhist Thailand. Imagine delivering a baby—with the help of the handy Peace Corps first aid kit—on a rust bucket of a passenger ship in the Pacific or practicing agriculture with armed Pathan farmers in the Pashtun region of Pakistan. How about trekking into the far reaches of Afghanistan to inoculate women and children for small pox, or returning 25 years later to your school in India to find that, yes, your students do remember you? These stories say. “I Was There.”
Download or read book Faces of Korea written by Richard Harris and published by Hollym International Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind to document the lives of foreigners in Korea firsthand, Faces of Korea is a collection of 47 interviews with people from more than 20 countries on five continents. Set up in a narrative format, which makes reading the interviews as enthralling as it does educational, subjects in the book include working in Korea, romantic relations with Koreans, people of Korean descent, teaching in Korea, learning in Korea and people who have made Korea their adopted home.
Download or read book Maya and the Turtle written by John C. Stickler and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL 2013-2014 MORNING CALM MEDAL** This multicultural children's book presents a heartwarming Korean fairy tale about a little girl and a fortunate encounter. Poverty is all Maya has ever known, but she doesn't allow it to stop her from caring for her father, and others, as best she can. Kind and gentle, she is a lovely young girl who always puts others first. One day, she finds a little turtle and takes him home, raising and loving him, never knowing that he will play an instrumental part in her destiny. Similar to The Korean Cinderella, Maya and the Turtle, is an original Korean fairy tale by authors John Stickler and Soma Han that teaches children that the road to greatness lies in selflessness and that the loving kindness of a pure heart can awaken great love and power in another. Beautifully illustrated by Han, this book contains fascinating bits of information about Korean culture and is a poignant tale about the rewards of kindness, patience and courage.
