Korean Conversation Dictionary
Jung-sup Kim, Hyun-yong Cho & Jung-hee Lee

Korean Conversation Dictionary for Foreigners is a comprehensive yet practical guide packed with the words and expressions most commonly used in everyday conversation. It contains useful expressions that one can use when learning Korean as a second or foreign language. It will be very helpful in learning a variety of Korean expressions. This dictionary also includes conveniently juxtaposed synonyms,...

A Journey in Search of Korea's Beauty
Bae Yong Joon

Unfledged yet Earnest Record of a Journey in Search of Korea's Culture

"A Journey in Search of Korea's Beauty" was a yearlong project that Bae Yong Joon undertook in order to learn more about traditional Korean culture from the unfledged yet earnest point of view of one Korean, and to record in a down-to-earth way what he learned and felt in the process.He chose 13 subjects he has been intere...

Facts About Korea (Revised edition)
Korean Culture and Information Service

Korea is proud to keep its own history alive for 5,000 years, although, over the last 150 years, it has been through foreign encroachment and civil war which later led to division of the country. Despite all the misfortune and trouble, Korea has accomplished tremendous economic growth within less than half of the century, and now became one of leading countries worldwide.

Facts about Korea ca...

Special Lecture on Korean Paintings
Oh Ju-seok

Prestigious Art Expert Oh Ju-seok Displays
Old Korean Masterpieces in Detail

Special Lecture on Korean Paintings provides readers with a comprehensive and readable introduction to major aspects of old Korean arts. The volume explores the vast heritage of Korean paintings, providing a rich panorama of information that stretches across the entire spectrum of Korean paintings, which will have wide appeal, not least to art lovers and students of Korean Studies.

The book is largely composed of three parts: Part I, Principles for Appreciation of Old Korean Paintings, int...