Korean Culture

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    • The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
    • By: James Hoare
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Apart from the headline-making politics, not much is known in the West about the Korean people and their ancient culture. Yet those who visit Korea, whether North or South, find a land of great interest....

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    • A New History of South and North
    • By: Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day....

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    • A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television
    • By: Grace Jung
    • Narrated by: Grace Jung
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From stand-up comedian and media studies PhD Grace Jung comes a rollicking deep dive into the cultural significance of Korean television....

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    • The Culture, Etiquette, Rules and Customs
    • By: Mancho Soto
    • Narrated by: Millian Quinteros
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • South Korea 101 is a book that shares with you practical information that holds great value in better understanding the Korean mindset and culture! If you have an interest in Korea and Korean people then this book will bring you tremendous value....

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    • Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • A History
    • By: Bruce Cumings
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In sobering detail, The Korean War chronicles a US home front agitated by Joseph McCarthy, where absolutist conformity discouraged open inquiry and citizen dissent. Bruce Cumings incisively ties our current foreign policy back to Korea....

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    • The Impossible Country
    • By: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • By: Linda Sue Park
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 909 ratings
    • Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean potters’ village. When he accidentally breaks a pot, he must work for the master to pay for the damage by setting off on a difficult and dangerous journey that will change his life forever....

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    • World Passport
    • By: Nancy Dickmann
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • What is it like to live in or visit South Korea? What makes South Korea’s culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of South Korean people.

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    • A Memoir of Cars, Culture, Crisis, and Unexpected Hilarity Inside a Korean Corporate Titan
    • By: Frank Ahrens
    • Narrated by: Frank Ahrens
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Recounting his three years in Korea, the highest-ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai sheds light on a business culture very few Western journalists ever experience....

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    • The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
    • By: Geoffrey Cain
    • Narrated by: Michael Braun
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • An explosive exposé of one of the biggest and most secretive companies in the world, Samsung, as the Korean juggernaut battles Apple and Sony to dominate the world of technology....

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    • A Child's Escape from North Korea
    • By: Frances Park, Ginger Park
    • Narrated by: Ali Ahn
    • Length: 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Frances and Ginger Park, authors of both children's books and young adult novels, based this inspiring and deeply affecting tale on their own mother's childhood....

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    • The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • Every Falling Star is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Tara Westover
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 125,808 ratings
    • Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Michelle Zauner
    • Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,828 ratings
    • From the indie rock star of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, comes an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity....

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    • Disorder collection
    • By: Min Jin Lee
    • Narrated by: Greta Jung
    • Series: Disorder collection
    • Length: 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 629 ratings
    • An excellent student from a poor, traditional family in Seoul, the narrator has absorbed the same message her whole life: Only a boy can provide the family with dignity and wealth. Not her. Not her three sisters....

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