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""Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and her sister each fight to reassert their...
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"Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she'll do it better...
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The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"Lisa Pearl is an American teaching English in Japan and the situation there--thanks mostly to her spontaneous, hard-partying ways--has become problematic. Now she's in Seoul, South Korea, with her childhood best-friend Mindy. The young women share a special bond: they are both Korean-born adoptees into white American families. Mindy is in Seoul to track down her birth mom, and wants Lisa to do the same. Trouble is, Lisa isn't convinced she needs...
4) South Korea
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"A young boy growing up in Seoul, South Korea shares details of his life over the course of a single day"--
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The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself...
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FilmRise
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Korean
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The animated prequel to the box office record-breaker Train to Busan, and the latest from director Yeon Sang-ho, SEOUL STATION follows a man sleeping in a train station who becomes a catalyst for the pandemonium in downtown Seoul: a zombie apocalypse. The rapidly-spreading infection propels an authentic family drama, drawing mordant parallels to real-world social horrors.
8) South Korea
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Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2012
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32 p. : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Developed by literacy experts for students, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of South Korea.
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Korean
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A blockbuster in its native Korea, where it would go on to become the country's most successful film of all time, MY LOVE, DON'T CROSS THAT RIVER presents an unforgettable story of true love that transcends both generations and cultures. 100-year old lovebirds, Jo Byeong-man and Kang Kye-yeol, have been inseparable companions for 76 years. Observing this fragile couple for 15 months, director Moyoung Jin acts as a fly-on-the-wall, capturing the tender...
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Mindy Kim volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
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81 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Mindy Kim is about to go on her first big trip to Korea! And she cannot wait to: hug her grandparents and eat her Halmoni's homemade cooking! Hang out with her cousins, and see the big sites in Seoul with Dad and his girlfriend, Julie!
11) The coast guard
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 91 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Korean
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At South Korea's border with the North, troops guard the coast. Each bullies those ranking beneath him; tensions are high. PFC Kang and his friend Private Kim are on patrol when drinking youths jeer them. Two nights later, Kang follows orders, opening fire at a person who has infiltrated the border zone. It proves to be a young man, one from the earlier encounter, on a drunken tryst with his girlfriend, Mi-yeong. Kang is commended, yet horrified....
13) Skull water
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Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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372 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu--the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army--spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness,...
14) Banned book club
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Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
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192 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
Description
The gripping true story of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime in the early 1980s, and how she defied state censorship through the rebellion of reading.
15) Violets
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The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Feminist Press edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"San, a neglected young woman, experiences the violence and isolation of late twentieth-century Korean society"--
16) K is for Korea
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
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[26] p. : col. ill, col. maps ; 23 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A photographic introduction to Korea, featuring brief descriptions of people, places, customs, and other aspects of city and country life in Korea, arranged alphabetically from Arirang to Lacquerware.
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Lia Park volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lia Park must venture to the undersea kingdom of the Dragon King in Korea to save her parents from an evil diviner.
19) I am the subway
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Publisher
Scribble
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 27 cm.
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English
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"A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book."--
20) The host
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Seoul, an American army doctor forces his assistant to dump bottle after bottle of formaldehyde into the drain. The drain runs into the Han River, the major river running through the middle of Seoul. His only reason is that the bottles are covered with a layer of dust. Six years later, a food cart operator, Gang-du falls asleep every time his dad, Hie-bong, is away from the stand for more than a few minutes. Soon, his daughter, Hyun-Seo returns...
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