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Social Change in Korea covers almost all the important spheres of social life, touching upon most of the significant aspects of social change in Korea over the years, especially during the past two decades. It can be a very useful complementary textbook for any course taught in English which deals with social change in Korea.

The works collected here were written by students at Chungju St. Mary School (a school for the visually impaired), the Chungju Sacred Heart Residence, and Gwangju’s Eunhae School (a school for the physically challenged) and by disabled persons at the Seton Rehabilitation Center, all run by Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill. Proceeds from the book are used for the disabled by “Planting Love.”

These two domains are generally known to conflict each other. However, the author of this book claims that these two share common ground in terms of pursuit of truth. Since when we had achieved an ability to think, we has been asked those questions: "where we came from?", "how the universe began?" These are the questions aboutthe origin of man, the universe, and the life. Religion and science are commonly the legacy of our effort to find the answer to these fundamental inquiries. The author attempts to develop a contextual dialogue between science and religion in the context of Korea, Here, the theological context of Korea, which differs from the Western, reflects both the religio-cultural context of religious pluralism as well as the socio-political context experienced colonialism and dictatorship. The readers looking for an ultimate truth may enjoy a mosaic woven through the contextual dialogue between modern science and the East Asian religious tradition.

“Temples of Korea” has recently been published, in conjunction with the Publication Support Program of the Korea Foundation. Along with featuring the 17 most prominent Buddhist temples in Korea, this book also describes Buddhism’s influence on the history of Korea and its significance to the spiritual realm of the Korean people. The book begins with a general introduction to Buddhism in Korea, with an outline of its fundamental principles. In particular, it provides in-depth descriptions of Korea’s 17 best-known Buddhist temples, which are located throughout the country. By taking a leisurely journey to each of these temple sites, readers will be exposed to a diverse array of Korea’s cultural characteristics, including traditional Korean architecture, sculpture, painting, and handicrafts, as well as Buddhist thought. The book also includes a glossary of basic Buddhist terminology.

Korean food has been appraised as a genuine, slow, healthy food for its organization with the seasons and regional specialties, harmony of food ingredients and combination of food groups. In spite of high interest in Korean food by global villagers, there have relatively few good books introducing Korean food with internationally comprehensible recipes. As part of the project "Research and Development Project for Standardization of Korean Cuisine," this book is designed to standardize the recipes of the selected 100 Korean foods by using the international system of units (SI unit) and to present the pleasure of cooking healthy Korean food easily for everyone around the world. It also gives useful tips, such as serving temperature, total cooking time and suggested utensils, nutritional information per serving, along with specific instructions for preparing ingredients and cooking.

"This book is about the history of interaction among Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in China and Korea, and the ways in which each respective religion and/or philosopher merged the others together. Through it, author was able to learn that genuine thinkers are able to combine the three religious doctrines together according to their independent views and unconventional patterns of thought. In addition to a comprehensive overview of Chinese religious history, for greater depth of research author focused on the teachings of Gang Jeungsan, a great spiritual master of modern Korea. For the same reason that Gang Jeungsan is acknowledged as one of the great syncretists of Korean religious history, his views are often criticized as being an amorphous hodgepodge of various philosophies.

This English-language catalogue features two Gilt-Bronze Pensive Images from the Three Kingdoms period (37 B.C.-668 A.D.) of Korea, which are Korea's National Treasure No. 78 and No. 83. With an abundance of photos and insightful essays, it provides an in-depth introduction to these ancient masterpieces of Korean Buddhist art.

The book consists of seven chapters -- appetizers & entrees, soups & salads, meat, seafood, rice & noodles, kimchi and dessert. About 70 kinds of foods including ordinary foods such as "bibimbap" (rice mixed with vegetables) and "bulgogi" (Korean-style barbecued beef) and traditional foods such as "sinseonro" (royal casserole) and "maejakgwa" (fried honey ginger cookies) are compiled along with colorful photos taken herself.

The book contains basic information about global diplomacy South-North, Seoul-Washington relations and development paradigm.