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"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 roomate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds...
2) Korea
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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
3) Oldboy
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Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Daesu is released and sets out to find his abductors.
4) Natural city
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Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the year 2080 in So?ul, agent R is a policeofficer who falls in love with a cyborg whose lifetime is almost up and begins to search for a way to give her a human life.
5) Pachinko
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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"A propulsive and ambitious thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely alliance Star of the North opens in 1988, when a Korean American teenager is kidnapped from a South Korean beach by North Korean operatives. Twenty-two years later, her brilliant twin sister, Jenna, is still searching for her, and ends up on the radar of the CIA. When evidence...
7) XOXO
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"Jenny never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk"--
8) South Korea
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
9) South Korea
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
Description
A basic overview of the history, geography, climate, and culture of South Korea.
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distributed by New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a remote mountain monastery above a bustling city lives Hyegok, an old Zen master, his conflicted young apprentice Kibong, and Haejin, an orphaned boy studying to be a monk. The old master, nearing his end, wishes to make the ceremony of his death his final lesson to his apprentice, who is struggling to come to terms with the worldly life he left behind. Meanwhile the young boy has his own awakening to mortality as he attempts to nurse a bird he...
12) South Korea
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Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Presents information about modern South Korea, discussing its population, geography, wildlife, language, cities, technology industries, holidays, and food.
13) Korea
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Series
Publisher
Seoul Selection
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
745 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 21 cm.
Description
"With 5,000 years of history and culture packed into one very tight package, Korea is a fascinating travel destination that both compares and contrasts favorably with its larger neighbors. From the pulsating streets of Seoul to the peaceful temples and gardens of the Korean countryside, Korea is a study in contrasts--one foot in the future, with the other firmly rooted in one of the world's riches cultural heritages. Korea includes: Comprehensive...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explorer offers a comprehensive look at the most reclusive member of the Axis of Evil, from the tense world of the Demilitarized Zone to the surreal life of the Dear Leader Kim Jong II. "Go undercover with National Geographic correspondent Lisa Ling as she journeys into mysterious and reclusive North Korea. Posing as part of an international medical team, Lisa and her camera crew reveal the extraordinary, hidden face of this insular, little-known...
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Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003, c2004
Physical Desc
xiii, 241 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Depicted as an insular and forbidding police state with an "insane" dictator at its helm, North Korea-charter member of Bush's "Axis of Evil"-is a country the U.S. loves to hate. Now the CIA says it possesses nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, as well as long-range missiles capable of delivering them to America's West Coast. But, as Bruce Cumings demonstrates in this provocative, lively read, the story of the U.S.-Korea conflict is more complex...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
608 pages ; cm
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A comprehensive history of the Korean War explains how it started and why it still has not technically ended, and describes how North Korea continues to stockpile weapons while its people go without the basic necessities of life.
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When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a “dead-man’s switch,” activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. But his benign trip takes a deadly turn when a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean operatives grips South Korea’s capital. A mysterious...
20) The host
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Seoul, an American army doctor forces his assistant to dump bottle after bottle of formaldehyde into the drain. The drain runs into the Han River, the major river running through the middle of Seoul. His only reason is that the bottles are covered with a layer of dust. Six years later, a food cart operator, Gang-du falls asleep every time his dad, Hie-bong, is away from the stand for more than a few minutes. Soon, his daughter, Hyun-Seo returns...
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