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"Follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of recipes for traditional and Korean-inspired dishes, covering kimchi, pickles, sauces, barbecue, noodles, stews and more.

A guide to understanding the Korean tea ceremonies.

In Neo Seoul in the year 2199, pilot Lee Jaewon is tasked with spying on supersoldier Tera. Lee begins to have feelings for her and finds his loyalty to the government faltering.

When a group of US Marines fighting in the Korean War found a bedraggled little mare, they wondered if she could be trained as a packhorse. They had no idea that the skinny, underfed horse had one of the biggest and bravest hearts they'd ever known.

"Everything in Young-hee's life is wrong. Her dad is gone, her mom is overworked, and she's forced to move back to Seoul. The girls at her school are nasty, and her little brother Bum is a pain in the butt. Then Young-hee stumbles into a magical world where the fairy tales of her childhood become real and all the frustrations of her everyday life quickly fade away. But when Bum is kidnapped in that magical realm, the only way Young-hee can save him is to go on a perilous quest in search of the magical Pullocho plant. And she soon finds herself facing decisions that affect not just her little brother, but fate of an entire world"--Back cover.

Contains a collection of over sixty Korean folk and fairy tales of dragons, ghosts, ogres, tigers, and demonic foxes that tell stories about life, love, power, money, and justice.

Chae-Kyung, an ordinary high school girl in an alternate Korea where the monarchy still rules, agrees to honor an agreement made by her grandfather and marry Prince Shin, and she believes life with her attractive new husband might not be so bad if he would just quit trying to antagonize her at every turn.

A retelling of a traditional Korean folktale about Mr. Mole who decides that only the most powerful being in the world may marry his daughter.

Amid the prosperity and wholesomeness of the fifties, the country begins to forget God and his ways. Now a new generation of Stuarts must decide wheter they will honor or reject their family's values.