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#Books on Demand

"A Pale Corridor" by Lee Chae-won

2021-03-16

The truth is that Yeong-sik and Mi-yeon had been paying back Yeong-seon’s debt for the past 30 years. The cash gifts they got for their son’s ...

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Funeral music

2021-03-10

In the old days when social classes were strictly divided, commoners had only two occasions in life when they could dress up in all finery and enjoy ...

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"Looking for a Horse" by Lee Sun-won

2021-03-09

Su-ho found out that his aunt was infertile when he was in fourth grade. His relatives decided for the boy be a foster son to his uncle.More shameful ...

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Koreans who love to have fun

2021-03-03

It usually takes three hours at the shortest and as long as eight hours to sing a pansori piece from start to finish. It requires physical and psychological ...

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"To the Desert" by Cheon Seon-ran

2021-03-02

Cheon Seon-ran’s “To the Desert” is a science fiction novel published in 2020. While traveling to an unknown planet, the protagonist ...

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Music about plum blossoms

2021-02-24

People in general think of dazzling cherry blossoms as the representative spring flower. But scholars of the old preferred the restrained beauty ...

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#Books on Demand

"The Sound of a Gong" by Moon Soon-tae

2021-02-23

Moon Soon-tae’s “The Sound of a Gong” was published 1978. The story is set against a rural village flooded when a dam was built ...

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Western music played with gugak instruments

2021-02-17

There are basically twelve musical notes in Korean traditional music as there are in western music. The number of notes may match, however, the pitch ...

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"A Dandelion on the Rooftop" by Park Wan-suh

2021-02-16

Interview by literary critic Jeon So-yeongThe narrator is the only person in the story who understand the elderly ladies because he had once felt ...

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K-pop songs played with gugak instruments

2021-02-10

Koreans have long been known to love singing. They needed songs not only for entertainment, but also while working. Many Koreans claim that they ...

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