This work takes a financial statement user orientation and integrates current real-world coverage. Chapter-opening vignettes look at real companies which are then carried over into chapter concepts, and extensive use is made of real financial statements throughout

Just what is it like to teach English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in South Korea? Through this journal, the author provides a frank and candid account of the various events, commitments, tasks, relationships (at both work and play). The text is changed very little from the actual handwritten journal kept for the fifty weeks Wellens spent teaching ESOL at Chungnam Institute of Foreign Language Education (CIFLE), a state-of-the-art facility in Gongju, South Korea

This book is intended to business activity

This book shows that you can have a rewarding time in a single place, not rushing around, taking things slow and focusing the mind on details. In this essay, the author narrates a day spent exploring the Jeong-dong neighborhood in Seoul

This book chronicles the political-military development of the Korean Peninsula since 1945, with particular attention to North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear technology and nuclear weapons, and how it has shaped Northeast Asian security and non-proliferation policy and influenced the strategic choices of the United States and all regional powers. I focus on North Korea’s leaders, institutions, political history, and the system’s longer-term prospects

This manual contains answers to end-of-chapter assignment questions, some suggestions on how each chapter should be taught, some notes on course organization, test bank questions and copies of the power point slides that accompany the fourth edition

This book contains solutions to the questions and problems that appear at the ends of chapters, the questions and problems have been designed to help reeaders study on their own and test their understanding of the material. They range from quick cheks on whether a key point is understood to much more challenging applications of analytical techniques

The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant phenomena, institutions, and directions in Japan today, on issues ranging from gender and family, the environment, race and ethnicity, and urban life, to popular culture and electronic media

The North Koreans' attack on their Southern neighbours in 1950 shocked and surprised the World already in the grip of the Cold War. The conflict rapidly escalated with China soon heavily involved on one side and the United Nations on the other. The author, then a young Gunner officer, found himself in the midst of this very nasty war. He describes in vivid detail the horrific conditions faced not just by all elements of the British contingent but also the Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans who fought so well. The reader is given a clear insight of what it was like to be at the infamous Battle of the Hook, where UN troops held off ferocious massed attacks by the numerically superior Chinese. Few outside the war zone realised just how appalling and dangerous conditions were

Korean Games and Sports is accessible to anyone seeking an international perspective on the cultural salience of folk and contemporary games and sports of Korea. This book consists of three parts: games of old, such as kite-flying and sledding; boardand card games, such as Korean chess and go; and martial arts and sports, such as taekwondo