Korean Books

Colloquial Korean provides a step-by-step course in Korean as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the...

Study Abroad in Korea prepares students for study in Korean by providing the reader with key expressions and guidance on certain aspects of culture and language idiosyncratic to Korea, focusing on...

Korean Literature Through the Korean Wave engages with the rising interest in both the Korean Wave and Korean language learning by incorporating Korean Wave cultural content, especially K-dramas,...

Learn essential phrases and vocabulary – from directions to eating out and travelling safely – and get to the heart of the local culture with this on-the-go language guide.Never get stuck for words...

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education provides the rapidly growing and globalizing field of heritage language (HL) education with a cohesive overview of HL programs and practices...

Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar is a reference to Korean grammar, and presents a thorough overview of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Korean.The book moves from the...

Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar is a reference to Korean grammar, and presents a thorough overview of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Korean.The book moves from the...

Korean: An Essential Grammar is a concise and convenient guide to the basic grammatical structure of standard Korean. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging...

This fascinating ethnography provides unique insights into the history, politics, ideology, and daily life of North Koreans living in Japan. Because Sonia Ryang was raised in this community, she was...

Nothing is nicer than sharing and giving in this bilingual Korean edition of the beloved classic by Marcus Pfister! The Rainbow Fish brings universal themes—such as friendship, tolerance, and...

'A zeitgeisty rags-to-riches tale' DAILY MAIL 'An off-beat slice-of-life novel' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class,...

Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Korean popular music. Each essay covers the major...

A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Sonjo The Pine River Songs is translation of Songgang kasa, Chong Ch'ol's (1536-1593) famous collection of-Korean songs. The translations are by Kevin O'Rourke, one...

Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl by way of Jenny Han in this knock-out debut about a Korean American teen who is thrust into the competitive, technicolor world of K-pop, from Jessica Jung, K-pop...

Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl by way of Jenny Han in this knock-out sequel, about a Korean American teen who is thrust into the competitive, technicolor world of K-pop, from Jessica Jung, K-pop...

You Call That Music?!: Korean Popular Music Through the Generations provides a critical overview of the history of Korean popular music from 1920 to the 2000s from the perspective of cultural history...

First Published in 2004. This work is concerned with kodae sos?l, particularly with investigating what kodae sos?l exist or have existed in texts in Korean in a traditional style. One aim of this...

Serrano calls for a reassessment of the practice of World Literature with six case studies taken from the Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Korean and Latin American traditions. Although in recent...

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global...

From Koreanness to K-ness: Contemporary Korean Culture and Society aims to conceptualise ‘K-ness’ as a new way of understanding the underlying characteristics that shape the semiotic, cultural, and...

Snapshots and Soundbites of Korean Culture takes a novel approach to understanding Korea’s past and present by blending sounds, imagery, texts, and online and printed materials to provide a...

This book explores examples of ‘toxic language’, the linguistic manifestations of societal conflicts and aggressions, that have arisen in Asian contexts.By highlighting toxic language, a panoramic...

From Koreanness to K-ness: Contemporary Korean Culture and Society aims to conceptualise ‘K-ness’ as a new way of understanding the underlying characteristics that shape the semiotic, cultural, and...

Snapshots and Soundbites of Korean Culture takes a novel approach to understanding Korea’s past and present by blending sounds, imagery, texts, and online and printed materials to provide a...

Learning Korean through Culture is designed to help intermediate to advanced Korean language learners gain a deeper understanding of the language. Volume 1 focuses on key aspects of Korean society,...

Learning Korean through Culture is designed to help intermediate to advanced Korean language learners gain a deeper understanding of the language. Volume 1 focuses on key aspects of Korean society,...

The Korean Case for Youth Language Learning is a collection of chapters which address the complexities at the intersection of Korean language learning, the global popularity of Korean culture, and...

The Korean Case for Youth Language Learning is a collection of chapters which address the complexities at the intersection of Korean language learning, the global popularity of Korean culture, and...

Innovative Methods in Korean Language Teaching showcases research-based and experience-based contributions and reflections on the potential of adopting technological and non-technological innovations...

This book draws together leading international scholars in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and language teacher education to explore language policy, teaching, and learning approaches that...

Innovative Methods in Korean Language Teaching showcases research-based and experience-based contributions and reflections on the potential of adopting technological and non-technological innovations...

Beginning Korean is a Korean language textbook for use at the high school and college levels, involving characters who speak and interact in Korean using beginner-to-intermediate-level expressions,...

This book investigates the politics embedded in the Korean-language textbooks utilised between 1895 and 2019, within the context of one Korea (pre-colonial and colonial eras), the divided Koreas, and...

With the international rise of K-pop culture, this analysis of BTS and the languages surrounding and related to their music, fans, and media content provides a unique look into how languages are...

With the international rise of K-pop culture, this analysis of BTS and the languages surrounding and related to their music, fans, and media content provides a unique look into how languages are...

Frontiers of Translation in Korean Language Education makes the case for the continuing relevance of translation in Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) education.This book presents practical case...

Topics in Korean Language and Culture: Volume One covers 12 essential topics relating to both traditional and contemporary Korean culture and society.Each chapter consists of listening and reading...

Topics in Korean Language and Culture: Volume Two covers 12 essential topics relating to both traditional and contemporary Korean culture and society for advanced Korean learners.Each chapter...

Topics in Korean Language and Culture: Volume Two covers 12 essential topics relating to both traditional and contemporary Korean culture and society for advanced Korean learners.Each chapter...

Samosir and Wee examine how the immensely popular Korean Wave ("K-wave") also known as Hallyu is wielded as soft power through the use of communication for persuasion and attraction on the global...

Cheung, Liu, Moratto, and their contributors examine how corpora can be effectively harnessed to benefit interpreting practice and research in East Asian settings.In comparison to the achievements...

Professor Riccardo Moratto and Professor Hyang-Ok Lim bring together the most authoritative voices on Korean interpreting.The first graduate school of interpretation and translation was established...

'A harrowing, off-beat novella about the ways in which young teenagers process trauma -- think MY DARK VANESSA meets EARTHLINGS. A truly unique gut-punch of a read' Alice Slater, author of Death of a...

From the very first moment she set foot in South Korea, Barbara Zitwer fell head-over-heels in love. In this fascinating book, Zitwer shares all that she has learnt about this vibrant country forged...

Someone finally writes about Korean happiness! And who better to do it than Barbara Zitwer, our de facto global ambassador for Korean literature, to give the outside world an account of the joyful...

'An important literary piece of feminist activism''Taps into the everyday minutiae of motherhood, baring to all the unspoken labours that women take on both inside and out of parenthood''Really made...

Ted Kaczynski's manifesto. The ransom note for Jon Benét Ramsey. The anthrax letters threatening our government and media agencies. With the aid of forensic linguistics, the words criminals leave...

'THE CRUSTACEAN isn't a novel, it's an obsession . . . I would kill and die for this book' ALISSA NUTTING, author of TAMPA'MY DARK VANESSA meets EARTHLINGS. A truly unique gut-punch of a read' Alice...