KI Faculty Publications

 

Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch’onghwa (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”). Prose tales that feature historical people and places but may also...

『제주도여행일지』는 1909년 5월10일에서 9월 27일까지 이름을 알 수 없는 한 일본인이 기록한 그림일기이다.
이 기간 일기의 저자와 그 일행은 도쿄를 떠나 시모노세키에서 배를 타고 부산과 목포를 거쳐 제주도에 도착하여 제주도 산간지역에 이미 설치되어 있던 세군데의 표고버섯재배장을 둘러보고 표고버섯 재배실험을 한 후 수확한 표고버섯을 가지고 제주도를 떠나 일본으로 되돌아왔다. 저자는 여행 중 보고 경험한 것들은 물론, 제주도의 산천과 함께 표고버섯...

 

For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert...

1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the "dark age for democracy." Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement and civil society has focused on the "student revolution" in 1960 and the large protest cycles in the 1980s which were...

Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of...

This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record...