In previous years this post has been, to a greater or lesser extent, a list of every non-fiction title I could find that was going to be hitting the bookshops in the coming year. As the LKL Korea Book Database has grown in size, including its stock of future publications, there are now far too … [Read More]
Publisher: Routledge
Selected publications
- Anthology: The Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea ed Eugene Y Park 2025
- Brian Bridges, Chiew-Ping Hoo, Shine Choi: Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence 2024
- Anthology: Buddhism, Digital Technology and New Media in Korea: Ŭisang’s Ocean Seal Diagram ed Hyangsoon Yi, Dal Yong Jin 2024
- Charlotte Horlyck: The Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market 2024
- Meewon Lee: Modernization of Korean Theatre in the 20th Century 2024
- Park Yuha: Comfort Women of the Japanese Empire: Colonial Rule and the Battle over Memory tr Cambridge Translation Team 2024
- Lionel Wee, Nora Samosir: Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave: Hallyu and Soft Power 2023
- Hyejeong Ahn, Jieun Kiaer: Emergence of Korean English: How Korea’s Dynamic English is Born 2023
- Anthology: Transnationalism and Migration in Global Korea: History, Politics, and Sociology, 1910 to the Present ed Joanne Miyang Cho, Lee M. Roberts, Sang Hwan Seong 2023
- Anthology: Korean Film and History ed Hyunseon Lee 2023
- Emily Lord, Jieun Kiaer, Loli Kim: The K-Wave On-Screen: In Words and Objects 2023
- Jieun Kiaer: The Language of Hallyu: More than Polite 2023
- Anthology: Introducing Korean Popular Culture ed Youna Kim 2023
- Choi Chungmoo, Hyunah Yang: Voices of the Korean Comfort Women: History Rewritten from Memories 2023
- Anthology: Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural Flows ed Hyunseon Lee 2022
- Brittany Khedun-Burgoine, Jieun Kiaer: Korean Wave in World Englishes: The Linguistic Impact of Korea’s Popular Culture 2022
- Anthology: South Korean Popular Culture in the Global Context: Beyond the Fandom ed Sojin Lim 2022
- Heasim Sul: A Global History of Ginseng: Imperialism, Modernity and Orientalism tr Youngjae Josephine Bae 2022
- Chuyun Oh: K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media 2022
- Bae Woosung, Sonny Kim, Yu Hyŏngwŏn: Confucian Reform in Chosun Korea: Yu Hyŏngwŏn’s Pan’gye surok 2022
- Lee Young-mee: You Call That Music?! Korean Popular Music Through the Generations tr Brandon J Park, Jean Yoon, Young-mee Yu Cho 2022
- Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk: Imaging Migration in Post-War Britain: Artists of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese Heritage 2022
- Anthology: The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature ed Heekyoung Cho 2022
- Ryu Dae-young: A History of Protestantism in Korea 2022
- Jieun Kiaer, Loli Kim: Understanding Korean Film: A Cross-Cultural Perspective 2021
- Hyelim Kim: Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegŭm Flute Performance 2021
- Anthology: Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art: Fluidity and Fragmentation ed Kyunghee Pyun, Jung-Ah Woo 2021
- Anthology: The Candlelight Movement, Democracy, and Communication in Korea ed JongHwa Lee, Chuyun Oh, Yong-Chan Kim 2021
- Hye Ok Park: Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895–1920: Arirang People 2021
- Anthology: On Translating Modern Korean Poetry ed Jieun Kiaer, Anna Yates-Lu, Mattho Mandersloot 2021
- Anthology: The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama ed Youna Kim 2021
- Anthology: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea ed Sojin Lim, Niki J.P. Alsford 2021
- Anthology: The Future of the Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond ed Mason Richey, Jagannath P. Panda, David A. Tizzard 2021
- Adam Zulawnik, Lim Il: Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho tr Adam Zulawnik 2021
- Dong-Yeon Koh: The Korean War and Postmemory Generation: Contemporary Korean Arts and Films 2021
- Nobuko Yamasaki: Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire: Fragmenting History 2021
- Andrew Sangpil Byon: Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook (2nd Ed) 2021
- Ro Sang-ho: Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 2021
- Choi Chungmoo: Healing Historical Trauma in South Korean Film and Literature 2020
- Timothy C Lim: The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea: Ideas, Discourse, and Institutional Change in a Homogenous Nation-State 2020
- Hyesu Park: Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang 2020
- Andrew Sangpil Byon: Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook 2020
- Yoon Hyunsun: Branded Entertainment in Korea 2020
- Jieun Kiaer: Study Abroad in Korea: Korean Language and Culture 2020
- Anthology: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea ed Adrian Buzo 2020
- Erik Ropers: Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan: Histories Against the Grain 2020
- Anthology: South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea ed Youna Kim 2020
- Anthology: Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia ed Keith Howard, Catherine Ingram 2020
- Anthology: Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations ed Rumi Sakamoto, Stephen Epstein 2020
- Martin Petersen: North Korean Graphic Novels: Seduction of the Innocent? 2020
- Michael Timberlake, Shin Kyoung-ho: Seoul, Korea’s Global City: A New Urbanism for Upward Mobility 2020
- J Marshall Craig: China, Korea and Japan at War, 1592–1598: Eyewitness Accounts 2020
- Anthology: Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature ed Yoon Sun Yang 2020
- Haeran Shin: The Cultural Politics of Urban Development in South Korea: Art, Memory and Urban Boosterism in Gwangju 2020
- Woo Park: Chaoxianzu Entrepreneurs in Korea: Searching for Citizenship in the Ethnic Homeland 2020
- Sang-hoon Jang: A Representation of Nationhood in the Museum 2020
- Kyong Yoon: Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture 2019
- Anthology: Poems from Korea: From the Earliest Era to the Present ed Peter H Lee 2019
- Maria K Seo: Hanyang Kut: Korean Shaman Ritual Music from Seoul 2019
- Charles Allen Clark: Religions of Old Korea 2019
- Jaehoon Yeon, Lucien Brown: Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar 2019
- Patrick Flamm: South Korean Identity and Global Foreign Policy: Dream of Autonomy 2019
- Anthology: East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context ed Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, Toshio Watanabe 2019
- Jessica Walton: Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption: Embodiment and Emotion 2019
- Kevin Cawley: Religious and Philosophical Traditions of Korea 2019
- Park Wan-suh: My Very Last Possession and Other Stories tr Chun Kyung-ja 2018
- Hye-Kyung Lee (2): Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State 2018
- Anthology: Strategic, Policy and Social Innovation for a Post-Industrial Korea: Beyond the Miracle ed Joon Nak Choi, Yong Suk Lee, Gi-Wook Shin 2018
- Chang Yun-shik: The Personalist Ethic and the Rise of Urban Korea 2017
- Anthology: K-pop – The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry ed JungBong Choi, Roald Maliangkay 2017
- Adrian Buzo: Politics and Leadership in North Korea: The Guerilla Dynasty 2017
- Stephen A Royle: Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887 2017
- Sarah Milledge Nelson: Gyeongju: The Capital of Golden Silla 2017
- Jieheerah Yun: Globalizing Seoul: The City’s Cultural and Urban Change 2017
- Anthology: Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society ed Youna Kim 2016
- Chung Chai-sik: The Korean Tradition of Religion, Society, and Ethics: A Comparative and Historical Self-understanding and Looking Beyond 2016
- Udo Moenig: Taekwondo: From a Martial Art to a Martial Sport 2016
- Anthology: Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music ed Hyunjoon Shin, Seung-Ah Lee 2016
- Jaehoon Yeon, Lucien Brown: Speed up your Korean: Strategies to Avoid Common Errors 2016
- Anthology: Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History ed Michael J Seth 2016
- Vladimir Tikhonov: Modern Korea and Its Others: Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity 2015
- Gil-Soo Han: Nouveau-riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea: A media narrative analysis 2015
- Michael Fuhr: Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea: Sounding Out K-Pop 2015
- Lim Jae-cheon: Leader Symbols and Personality Cult in North Korea: The Leader State 2015
- Sallie Yea: Trafficking Women in Korea: Filipina migrant entertainers 2015
- Haeyoung Jeong: Archaeology of Psychotherapy in Korea: A study of Korean therapeutic work and professional growth 2014
- Kyounghee Kim, Seung-Kyung Kim: The Korean Women’s Movement and the State: Bargaining for Change 2013
- Anthology: The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global ed Youna Kim 2013
- David Shim: Visual Politics and North Korea: Seeing is Believing 2013
- Anthology: De-Bordering Korea: Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy ed Valérie Gelézeau, Koen De Ceuster, Alain Delissen 2013
- Anthology: Modern Korean Literature — An Anthology 1908-65 ed Chung Chong-wha 2012
- Anthology: Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions ed Keith Howard 2012
- Aegyung Shim, Brian Yecies: Korea’s Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948: The Untold History of the Film Industry 2011
- Anthology: South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society ed Gi-Wook Shin, Paul Chang 2011
- Hong Kal: Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics and History 2011
- Youngmi Kim: The Politics of Coalition in Korea: Between Institutions and Culture 2011
- Anthology: New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements ed Jesook Song 2010
- Young-Key Kim-Renaud: Korean: An Essential Grammar 2009
- Iain Pirie: The Korean Developmental State: From dirigisme to neo-liberalism 2007
- Anthology: Korean Society: Civil Society, democracy and the state ed Charles K. Armstrong 2006
- Anthology: South Korean Democracy: Legacy of the Gwangju Uprising ed Georgy Katsiaficas, Na Kahn-chae 2006
- Youna Kim: Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope 2005
- Anthology: Legal Reform in Korea ed Thomas Ginsburg 2004
- Hyung-A Kim: Korea’s Development Under Park Chung Hee 2003
- James B Lewis: Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan 2003
- Anthology: Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries ed Young-Key Kim-Renaud 2003
- Sheila Miyoshi Jager: Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism 2003
- Martin Uden: Times Past in Korea An Illustrated Collection of Encounters, Customs and Daily Life Recorded by Foreign Visitors 2003
- Anthology: War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War ed David R. McCann, Barry S. Strauss 2001
- James H Grayson: Myths and Legends from Korea: An Annotated Compendium of Ancient and Modern Materials 2000
- Anthology: The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea’s Tiananmen ed Henry Scott Stokes, Lee Jai Eui 2000
- Anthology: Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin ed Sonia Ryang 2000
- James E Hoare, Keith Pratt, Richard Rutt: Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary 1999
- James E Hoare: Embassies in the East: The Story of the British and Their Embassies in China, Japan and Korea from 1859 to the Present 1999
- Richard Steers: Made in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of Hyundai 1999
- Mark Clifford: Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea 1997
- Anthology: Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism ed Elaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi 1997
- Hwang Sun-won: The Descendants of Cain tr Julie Pickering, Suh Ji-moon 1997
- Anthology: The Rainy Spell and Other Korean Stories ed Suh Ji-moon 1997
- Roger Tennant: A History of Korea 1996
- Park Kyung-ni: Land (Vol 1) tr Agnita Tennant 1996
- Donald Kirk: Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung 1994
- Robert E Bedeski: The Transformation of South Korea: Reform and Reconstitution in the Sixth Republic Under Roh Tae Woo, 1987-1992 1994
- James H Grayson: Korea – a religious history 1989
- Kang Shin-jae: The Waves tr Tina L Sallee 1989
- Kim Dong-ni: The Shaman Sorceress tr Eugene Chung, Shin Hyun-song 1989
- Anthology: Folk Tales from Korea ed Zong In-sob 1952
Eighteen non-fiction titles we’re hoping to enjoy this year [updated]
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Here are some of the books we’re looking forward to in 2021. For the first time in one of these posts we’re flagging the indicative cost of the titles listed here. For me, I have a psychological barrier at around £30: a book has to be offering something pretty special for me to be prepared … [Read More]
Literature and poetry in translation titles for 2021: more than a dozen to look forward to!
This is now LKL’s fifth annual post that looks at the literature and fiction titles we’re looking forward to over the coming twelve months. Since last year we’ve made things easier for ourselves by investing some time building a book database that aims to catalogue all physical publications of Korean literature in translation, as well … [Read More]
New and upcoming non-fiction titles for 2019
Unlike my list that attempts to compile upcoming literature and fiction titles, here I’ve had to be selective in what to include, otherwise the length of this post would be unmanageable. Nevertheless I’ve almost certainly missed out some titles that I’d want to have on my bookshelf. I’ve divided the list into seven sections: Literature … [Read More]
Book review: Modern Korean Literature — An Anthology 1908-65
Modern Korean Literature: An Anthology 1908-1965 Edited by Chung Chong-wha Routledge / Kegan Paul International, 1995, 467pp If you are looking to sample Korean literature in translation, the chances are that you’ll find more short stories than full length novels. This collection, though not universally enjoyable, is extremely useful in giving an overview of the … [Read More]
Book review: Hwang Sun-won – The Descendants of Cain
Hwang Sun-won: The Descendants of Cain Translated by Suh Ji-moon and Julie Pickering East Gate / UNESCO / Routledge 1997. Originally published 1954 Novels set in post-liberation Korea, or during the Korean war, often make uncomfortable reading, particularly those set in the Soviet sphere of influence, and where the story is set in the countryside. … [Read More]
Mark Clifford: Troubled Tiger
(M.E. Sharpe / Routledge 1998) Chronicles the modern history of Korea from the 1960s to the mid-90s, focusing on the drive for economic growth and the control exerted by the Blue House over the direction of the economy. Clifford gives us a politically balanced view, emphasising the successes of Park Chung-hee, but not shrinking from … [Read More]