Product Description: The year 2003 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the armistice that ended the hot war on the Korean peninsula. The Korean War started as a civil conflict and then grew into an all-out superpower war. Whole cities were levelled, factories destroyed, homes torched, farmers uprooted from their fields...read more

Product Description: This is the first book published on the Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C. which is considered the crown jewel among the 90 Korean diplomatic missions Korea now maintains abroad. Through text and photo illustrations, the book was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the launching of the Korean Embassy in Washington, D...read more

Product Description: Extraordinary political and economic changes have rocked the Republic of Korea over the past fifty years. John Oh, a Korean-born political scientist, has written a clear and insightful account of government and politics throughout this turbulent period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)