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#Books on Demand

"Fuel" by Yun Heung-gil

2021-01-05

One winter day, the furnace pipe got clogged, turning the rooms cold and water icy. The boy’s mother nagged her husband to get some pine branches.Interview ...

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Instruments of Unified Silla

2020-12-30

Music is said to influence human emotions. Good music makes you feel good and a horror movie without its eerie music does not scare anyone. In the old ...

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Winter solstice and Christmas

2020-12-23

Last Monday was Dongji동지, the winter solstice, the day with the longest night of the year. It also means that daytime will grow longer thereafter. ...

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"Where Did Choi Mi-jin Go?" by Lee Ki-ho

2020-12-15

Lee Ki-ho carefully read the seller’s comments on the books. The comment on Park Sang-ryung’s박상륭 “Yeolmyeonggil열명길” ...

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Noteworthy Gugak Bands

2020-12-09

Korea is not that big a country, but each region has a distinct dialect perhaps from being separated by many rivers and mountains. Variations in intonation ...

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"Sleeping with Books" by Lee Seung-woo (Part 2)

2020-12-08

How did the protagonist come to meet the man in the article? Why did the man die in a fetal position among books?Han Jeong-tae, the protagonist, asked ...

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Plucked string instruments

2020-12-02

The term “gagok가곡” refers to poems set to music. A gagok piece includes all the signature traditional instruments, such as gayageum, ...

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"Sleeping with Books" by Lee Seung-woo

2020-12-01

How did the protagonist and the dead man meet and why was the man discovered dead in a fetal position among the books?Interview by literary critic ...

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Music for shaman rituals

2020-11-25

Korean shaman rituals called “gut굿” were one of the most popular form of entertainment in the old days. Musicians and shamans played ...

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"Ladies of No. 504 and No. 604" by Seo Seong-ran

2020-11-24

Seo Seong-ran’s “Ladies of No. 504 and No. 604,” published in 2015, is about two women who are neighbors, in apartments Nos. ...

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