Title : Your Republic of Korea
Author : Prof. Vladimir
Park, No-Ja at Oslo University, Norway
Language
: Korean
Price : US$15
(including postal fee)
Description
: "The book, a collection of the author's
newspaper and journal writings, aims at understanding
the basic underlying logic of South Korea's institutional,
political and ideological set-up. The author believes
that this logic
may be best expressed by the term
'statism' (kukkajueui) and still rests on the idea of
benevolent, sacrosanct developmental state requiring
unquestionable loyalty from its subjects. The
book
takes a closer look at the groups most affected by the
'statist' ideology - jailed pacifists,
overworked
and underpaid workers, foreign migrant laborers, etc."
Title : The Country with Left and Right, but
without Bosses and Underlings
Author
: Prof. Vladimir Park, No-Ja at Oslo University,
Norway
Language : Korean
Price : US$ 15 (including
postal fee)
Description
: This collection of essays describes Norwegian realities
- those features of Norwegian institutions and everyday
life Korean progressives can refer to as good examples
of more equalitarian and just society we aspire to build
in Korea as well. At the same time, the author provides
some insights into less savoury aspects of the life
in 'Fortress Europe' - disdainful and disinterested
attitudes towards non-European cultures, panic fear
of everything 'foreign' exploited by right-wing politicians,
lack of concerns for the catastrophes unfolding in the
'world periphery'. The book also includes the author's
exchange with Korea's first ever Buddhist conscientious
objector, Mr. Oh T'aeyang, on the issues of Buddhist
non-violence".
Title : Sex Among Allies
Military Prostitution
in U.S.-Korea Relations
Author
: Katharine H. S. Moon
assistant professor
of political science at Wellesley College,
Language : Korean
Price
: US$ 17 (including postal fee)
Description
: "Drawing on a vast array of dataarchival
materials, interviews with officials, social workers,
and the candid revelations of sex industry workers -Moon
explores the way in which the bodies of Korean prostitutes
-where, when, and how they worked and lived -were used
by the US and the Korean governments in their security
agreements. . . .marginalized and made invisible in
militarily dependent societies."
-The U.S.Korea
Review
"In a carefully researched study of U.S. military
prostitution in Korea, Moon validates Cynthia Enloe's
claim that the personal is international. These moving
stories tell how the lives of Korean prostitutes in
the 1970s served as nearly invisible instruments of
U.S.-Korean military policies at the highest level.
Moon's innovative case study demonstrates how a Cold
War alliance was maintained at the price of these women's
personal insecurity and challenges us to reconsider
the human costs of international security policies."
-J. Ann Tickner,
This study examines and illuminates how the lives
of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible
underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the
highest level.
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