Nanjung Ilgi: war diary of admiral Yi Sun-sin

Author: Yi Sun-sin
Translated by: Ha Tae-Hung
Publisher: Yonsei University Press, 1977
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The text of Korea’s 76th national treasure, listed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World registry.

Second-hand copies are occasionally available, for a price (eg, at the time of writing Amazon has a copy available at over £1,000); and you can find it in specialist libraries.

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