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Publisher
Poh Kim Video
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Korean
Description
Two handsome South Korean young soldiers in special forces are assigned dangerous overseas missions, often in remote foreign lands. Their military life makes it difficult to maintain long-term romantic relations. One falls in love with a physician while the other with the daughter of the commanding general.
88) Ma ma, bie ku
Author
Series
Hei tian e wen cong volume 3
Publisher
Xin hua chu ban she
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文
89) Chiphaenggwandŭl
Author
Publisher
Tasan Ch'aekpang
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
"South Korea's first-of-its-kind executioners who try to severely punish politicians, businessmen, and public officials who do not receive a proper punishment from the courts of law, due to all kinds of corruption. The novel begins when a high-ranking torturing cop, who was living his lavish last years, is murdered with the torture method he used decades ago. 'Executives' have appeared, who, as representatives of the people, punish evildoers. Whose...
Author
Series
PIN volume 046
Publisher
Hyŏndae Munnhak
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Korean
Description
"It begins with the story of the narrator, who suddenly developed a hatred for his father one day and went back to his hometown. Like 'Ding', which refers to the damaged part of a surfboard formed by hitting the waves, the people left behind where people left, their lives in a small fishing village where they overcome the wounds they received from someone, and their trajectories are drawn in an omnibus fiction format."-- Translated from Korean summary...
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
These captivating short stories portray three major periods in modern Korean history: the forces of colonial modernity during the late 1930s; the postcolonial struggle to rebuild society after four decades of oppression, emasculation, and cultural exile (1945 to 1950); and the attempt to reconstruct a shattered land and a traumatized nation after the Korean War. Lost Souls echoes the exceptional work of China's Shen Congwen and Japan's Kawabata Yasunari....
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Korean
Description
"Kang Joo-eun is a 33 year-old lawyer and formerly called the "Venus of Daegu" in her hometown. After finishing high school and fulfilling her dream of becoming a lawyer, Joo-eun gains weight and feels she is no longer beautiful. After being dumped by her long term boyfriend on their 15-year anniversary, Joo-eun takes an oversea trip to America for work. On the ride back to Korea she faints after too much alcohol, medication and a corset puts her...
98) 1999
Author
Publisher
Pomin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
"A novel about the "rapture," the core of Christian eschatology, and novel against the secularization and fetishization of the Korean church, which is rather savagely insulted by a character, who should be the subject of social condemnation, who will go beyond irony in a more intense critical reflection on the Korean church." --
Language
Korean
Description
"a husband works as a successful prosecutor and his future appears bright, but he gets arrested for corruption in a political scandal. His wife worked as an attorney prior to their marriage, now resumes her career after a 13-year hiatus. She begins to find her true identity." -- case.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Korean
Description
"Five childhood freinds, who all live in the same Ssangmundong neighborhood of Seoul, lean on each other to survive their challenging teen years and set a path for their futures. Sung Deok-seon sturggles for attention as the middle child in her poor family while also carrying the burden of her 989th ranking in school. Kim Jung-hwan only has one-track mind for soccer, even after his family becomes rich overnight. Sung Sun-woo is the perfect student,...
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