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Free Download Rebecca Seungyoun Jeong, "Preaching to Korean Immigrants: A Psalmic-Theological Homiletic "
English | ISBN: 3031078845 | 2022 | 237 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In terms of practical-theology’s critical reflection on marginalized people’s wounds in a wider society, this book investigates the question, "How to proclaim the good news in response to first-generation Korean immigrants’ contextual suffering in the United Sates?" To answer the question, the book starts with investigating Korean immigrant hearers’ contextual predicaments in a new land to point out emerging practical-theological issues in relation to the practice of preaching. In this book, the primary subjects are first-generation Korean immigrants, especially those who have relatively low socio-economic status and struggle with the purpose of their lives as immigrants, particularly those whose material dreams have been shattered.

Free Download Sojin Lim, "Politics, International Relations and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula "
English | ISBN: 1032491922 | 2023 | 152 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This edited volumeexplores the past, present, and future of the Korean Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in politics with those in international relations and diplomacy.

Free Download Sojin Lim, "Politics, International Relations and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula "
English | ISBN: 1032491922 | 2023 | 152 pages | EPUB | 903 KB
This edited volumeexplores the past, present, and future of the Korean Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in politics with those in international relations and diplomacy.

Free Download On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America By In-Jin Yoon
1997 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0226959279 | PDF | 16 MB
The Los Angeles riots shattered Korean immigrants’ naive belief in the American dream. As many as 2,300 Korean shopkeepers lost their lifetime investments in one day. Korean immigrants had struggled for years to become economically independent through small businesses of their own. However, the riots made them realize how fragile their economic base is because their businesses are dependent on the impoverished, oppressed, and rebellious classes.In On My Own, In-Jin Yoon combines an intimate fieldwork account of Korean-black relations in Chicago and Los Angeles with extensive quantitative analysis at the national level. Yoon argues that a complete understanding of the contemporary Korean-American community requires systematic analyses of patterns of Korean immigration, entrepreneurship, and race relations with other minority groups. He explains how small business has become the major economic activity of Korean immigrants and how Korean businesses in minority neighborhoods have intensified racial tensions between Koreans and minorities like blacks and Latinos."A groundbreaking study of Korean-black relations. Yoon’s insights on immigration, entrepreneurship, and race relations significantly enhance our understanding of urban racial tensions."-William Julius Wilson, Harvard University

Free Download Kyung Moon Hwang, "Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films "
English | ISBN: 3031272676 | 2023 | 274 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This open access book examines the depiction of Korean history in recent South Korean historical films. Released over the Hallyu ("Korean Wave") period starting in the mid-1990s, these films have reflected, shaped, and extended the thriving public discourse over national history. In these works, the balance between fate and freedom―the negotiation between societal constraints and individual will, as well as cyclical and linear history―functions as a central theme, subtext, or Description device for illuminating a rich variety of historical events, figures, and issues. In sum, these highly accomplished films set in Korea’s past address universal concerns about the relationship between structure and agency, whether in collective identity or in individual lives. Written in an engaging and accessible style by an established historian, Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films

Free Download Edward Y. J. Chung, "Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion: Confucian, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 3030947467 | 2022 | 406 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This pioneering book presents thirteen articles on the fascinating topic of emotions (jeong 情) in Korean philosophy and religion. Its introductory chapter comprehensively provides a textual, philosophical, ethical, and religious background on this topic in terms of emotions West and East, emotions in the Chinese and Buddhist traditions, and Korean perspectives. Chapters 2 to 5 of part I discuss key Korean Confucian thinkers, debates, and ideas. Chapters 6 to 8 of part II offer comparative thoughts from Confucian moral, political, and social angles. Chapters 9 to 12 of part III deal with contemporary Buddhist and eco-feminist perspectives. The concluding chapter discusses ground-breaking insights into the diversity, dynamics, and distinctiveness of Korean emotions.

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Free Download New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women: Comfort Women and What Remains
by Ñusta Carranza Ko
English | 2023 | ISBN: 981991793X | 289 Pages | True PDF | 5.5 MB

Free Download Jaesok Kim, "Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory: Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China"
English | 2013 | pages: 305 | ISBN: 080478454X | PDF | 12,4 mb
Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs. Anthropologist Jaesok Kim examines how governments, to attract MNCs, relinquish parts of their legal rights over these entities, while MNCs also give up portions of their rights as proxies of global capitalism by complying with local government guidelines to ensure infrastructure and cheap labor. This ethnography demonstrates how a particular MNC struggled with the pressure to be increasingly profitable while negotiating the clash of Korean and Chinese cultures, traditions, and classes on the factory floor of a garment corporation. Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory pays particular attention to common features of post-socialist countries. By analyzing the contentious collaboration between foreign management, factory workers, government officials, and gangs, this study contributes not only to the research on the politics of resistance but also to how global and local forces interact in concrete and surprising ways.

Free Download Suzy Kim, "Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1501705687, 0801452139 | EPUB | pages: 328 | 3.1 mb
During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life.