This book provides basic information that visitors must know, including history, culture, customs procedures, visa information, hotel information and the like. The guide contains a number of special features that aim to enrich your travel experience

This book was written for foreign visitors to Korea to be able to understand Korean culture through the historic sites of Seoul. Reading this book provides an easy yet thorough understanding of not only the outward appearances but also the basic cultural principles that have formed these sites. This book describes a field trip through Gyeongbok Palace and Changdeok Palace, the most focal relics of ancient Seoul, and Bukchon, the historic neighborhood of the former ruling class. Readers can discover more about the many UNESCO-designated World Heritages as a part of the palace tour.

Nonfiction. Travel. Southeast Asia Studies. Seoul Selection is proud to announce the release of SEOUL SELECTION GUIDES: SEOUL. The most comprehensive guidebook to the city of Seoul ever released, SEOUL contains 464 pages of in-depth travel information, helpful tips, background information on culture and history, detailed maps and beautiful photographs. Making full use of Seoul Selection

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.

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.

As the first English translation of Saam Five-Element Acupuncture, this book will guide readers through a wholistic and systematic acupuncture method. Saam was a Korean buddhist monk who sought to explore the mysteries of our bodies' innate Yin-Yang and Five Elements. To treat disease, Saam Acupuncture uses a combination of Five Transporting points of the involved meridians. The text is composed of 43 chapters covering diverse illnesses ranging from stroke to hemorrhoids with specific classifications and acupuncture formulae. Efforts was made to translate the text as accurately as possible, and illustrations were added for each acupuncture combination.

Gives insights into the basic values and beliefs of people in South and Central Asia. Based on data from AsiaBarometer public surveys of 2005, it examines human values and beliefs of peoples in Asia. It presents country profiles and comparative analysis by well-informed scholars, reports of the entire questionnaires (both standard common English language questionnaire and local language questionnaires), the whole comparable tabulated figures by society, the sampling methods and sizes and fieldwork in the societies examined.

This edition of Songnan Soul: Mirae Rul Iroborin Cholmun Sedae Ege Konnenun Sumusal ui Sahoehak is in a Book format.

The title of this book is Kyoch

This book examines the process of founding the Choson state upon neo-Confucian principles. The author analyzes the dynamics of Korean society evolving to balance the value of the individual and community with the essential defensive physical forces of the state