We’ve got a lot of books from and about Korea

We have a lot of wonderful books about Korea. If you are interested in Korean history, culture, literature, music, society or politics come and look at our collection. Unusually, because, this is such a specialist collection and we can’t count on local interest, I’m going to list the books here

• The Yalu Flows – A Korean Childhood by Mirok Lee. Illustrated by Im-Pok Chung. Published Hollym 1986 (£4.99)
• Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee. Published Granta Books 1995 (£3.99)
• Korean Short Stories. Published Il Ji Sa 1975 (£3.99)
• North Korea’s Undeclared War 1953 – bu Wayne Kirkbride. Published Hollym 1994 (£5.99)
• A Ready-Made Life – Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction, selected and translated Kim Chong-Un and Bruce Fulton. Published University of Hawai’I Press 1998 (£4.99)
• Korea since 1850 by Stewart Lone and Gavan McCormack. Published Longman 1993 (£4.99)
• Women of Korea – A History from Ancient Times to 1945 by the Committee for the Compilation of the History of Korean Women.  Published by Ewha Women’s University Press 1982 (£6.99)
• Challenges for Women – Women’s studies in Korea. Edited by Chung Sei-Wha. Published by Ewha Women’s University Press 1986 (£6.99)
• The Music of what Happens by Kevin O’Rourke. Published by Universal Press 1992 (£4.99)
• Waiting for the Dawn – The Soh Brothers’ Case in South Korea. Published by ‘The Save the Soh Brothers Society’ 1985
• Korean Painting by Keith Pratt Published by OUP 1995 (£2.99)
• Korean Musical Instruments by Keith Howard Published by OUP 1995 (£2.99)
• The Korean War by Peter Lowe. Published by Macmillan (£3.99)
• Korean Fishermen – Ecological Adaptation in Three Communities by Sang-Bok Han. Published Seoul National University Press 1977 (£8.99)
• Treason by the Book by Jonathan D Spence published Penguin Books 2002 (£4.99)
• North Korea- The Paranoid Peninsula, a Modern History by Paul French. Published by Zed Books 2005 (£5.99)
• Korean Patterns by Paul S Crane. Published by Royal Asiatic Society 1978 (£3.99)
• Keeping Time – Poems by David McCann with etchings by Ellie Rea Golden. Published by Troubadour Press 1980 (£3.99)
• The North and South Korean Political Systems – A comparative Analysis by Sung Chul Yang. Published Hollym 1999 (£9.99)
• South Korea – Moon Handbooks. By Robert Nilsen. Published by Avalon Travel 2004 (£4.99)
• Wedding Day and other Korean Plays. Edited by the Korean National Commission for UNESCO. Published by the Si-Sa-Yong-O-Sa Publishers 1983 (£5.99)
• Offspring of Empire – The Koch’ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism 1876-1945 by Carter J Eckert published by the University of Washington Press 1991 (£5.99)
• Pueblo and Bucher by Commander Lloyd M Bucher USN with Mark Rascovitch published by Michael Joseph 1971 (£5.99)
• The United States and the Republic of Korea – Background for Policy by Clause A Buss Published by Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University 1982 (£4.99)
• Virtuous Women – Three Classic Korean Novels: A Nine Cloud Dream , Queen Inhyon, Ch’un-hyang published by The Royal Asiatic Society 1974 (£7.99)
• Last Post – The End of Empire in the Far East by John Keay published by John Murray 1997 (£6.99)
• Traditional Korean Music Edited by the Korean National Commission for Unesco published by The Si-sa-yong-o-sa publishers 1983 (£5.99)
• Korea in World Politics 1940-1950. An evaluation of American Responsibility by Soon Sung Cho published by University of California Press 1967 (£4.99)
• Ten books in the Korean Culture Series edited by the International Cultural Foundation, published by the Si-sa-yong-o-sa publishers 1982 (£3.99 each)

1. Humour in Korean Literature
2. Upper-class culture in Yi-dynasty Korea
3. Buddhist culture in Korea
4. Folk culture in Korea
5. Legal system of Korea
6. Korean socity
7. Korean folk tales
8. Economic life in Korea
9. Customs and manners in Korea
10. Korean thought

This is a wonderful collection and we are doing our best to make sure that Koreaphiles get to hear of it!