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- Immunology for Kids – Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, and Antibiotics
- For parents worried about the immune health of their children Everything about your child’s immune system, as taught by a doctor and mother of three This book is for parents with children who get sick often—a book for parents who look at their children and wonder, “Does my child have a weak immune system? Should I be giving my child something to help them?” Despite the fact many parents try to feed their children red ginseng, herbal medicines, probiotics, and dietary supplements, or try other untested methods to boost their children’s immune systems, most parents actually know very little about the immune system. Ji-young Park is a doctor, a mother of three, and a medical spokeswoman who addresses the questions and concerns of patients, parents, and even other medical workers. Focusing on the topics of infectious diseases, vaccines, and antibiotics, Park explains through this book everything a good parent needs to know about the immune system. From what happens when our children get sick, to what the signs of a good immune system are, to what “Allergic March” is and how it progresses with age, to how to use antibiotics wisely and why everyone should get vaccinated—Ji-young Park uses her vast experience from working in the field as a family medicine doctor to explain everything that parents need to know. What happens to my child’s body when they get sick? The principle of immunity and how to foster a healthy immune system for your child Unlike what they show on health food advertisements, the immune system is not a barrier off which germs and virus bounce. Our bodies’ immune system works in complicated and intricate ways to defend us, finding and expelling the foreign invaders that constantly enter our bodies. It’s thanks to our immune systems that our children are able to recover from sicknesses so quickly. In Chapter 2 and 3, Park explains in detail the principle of immunity and how to foster a strong immune system for our children.
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- Studying Health –100 Years of Good Health for Modern People
- From 100 years of suffering to 100 years of good health Earm Yung E, Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University and “teacher of doctors”, teaches about modern health We have reached the point where humans can live to the age of 100. But in order to do this, there’s a minimum amount of knowledge concerning health that people must have. Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University and “teacher of doctors” Earm Yung E publishes this book during a time when, with the appearance of new viruses and diseases, people are interested in their health more than ever before. From what the definition of good health is, to how to deal with stress, to how to eat right and how to protect yourself against harmful chemicals and air pollution, to life habits that prevent the spread of new viruses and infectious diseases—Professor Earm has chosen topics that are fundamental to living a happy, healthy life. This book is not based on fads or pseudo-science, but on scientifically proven and reputable research. Professor Earm Yung E, who has conducted medical research for the last 40 years since he became professor of physiology at Seoul National University in 1976, emphasizes in this book the importance of basic healthy habits—habits with which we are all vaguely familiar but have a hard time following. In particular, Professor Earm argues that most diseases can be prevented without widespread, indiscriminate testing and treatment, as long as we practice healthy life habits, such as good diets, frequent exercise, and proper stress management.
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- The Birth of the Age of 24 Hours: Time Politics of South Korea in the 1980s
- The time politics of autonomy and governance inside life culture of the 1980s The prelude to neo-liberalism in which everyone is an agent of self-improvement Focusing on the fact that in the 1980s the 24-hour day was actively developed and used as a political, economic, and cultural resource, author Kim Hak-seon contemplates the time politics of South Korea in the 1980s through the concepts of governance, time as a resource, and the time system of nation-states. Discourse on South Korea in the 1980s usually focuses on either the political conflicts between opposing political powers or the economic developments that often interacted in complicated ways with those conflicts. This book however revitalizes the competition between nation and citizen, politics and daily life, through the time politics of the decade. In particular, it does a wide survey of the various time systems of the 1980s—the abolishment of the curfew, the media and time monitoring policies of the new military rule, daylight savings, and national holidays—and the public’s reaction to these time systems. At the same time, it also performs concrete analysis of the various aspects of the conflicts surrounding the temporality of multiple agents. And finally, it paints a convincing picture of how the psychology of ‘lack of time’ and ‘time pressure’ came to be so widely spread throughout society today, while offering useful implications and the historical background necessary to conceptual neo-liberal concepts of time.
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- Ideas that Arrived in Antiquity: From Cave Paintings to Ancient
- How did ancient people understand the world and themselves? Ideas rooted in ancient Koreans from prehistoric times to the Period of the Three Kingdoms Authority on tomb murals and petroglyphs, Professor Jeon Ho-tae publishes Ideas that Arrived in Antiquity: From Cave Paintings to Ancient Religions, a book that looks back at the birth of ancient Korean thought. This book introduces the thought and religious beliefs of ancient Koreans that were accumulated over tens of thousands of years from the stone age to the Period of the Three Kingdoms, and presents them in an accessible style. This book—which introduces important relics, ruins, and concepts, and which touches on various disciplines, such as the art, mythology, and religion of East and Western civilizations—is not only a must-have text for those studying ancient history, it is also the best history guide for families interested in ancient Korea. In particular, this book makes the experience of reading enjoyable for everyone by introducing colorful characters that have real discussions about ancient people and relics. And by showing the period through the eyes of the ancient people that lived then, this book gives the reader a chance to experience history through a first-person lense. Table of Contents: Introduction – A Strange Journey in which We Discover the Thoughts of Ancient People Chapter 1 – Paleolithic Culture: The Beginning of Thought Chapter 2 – Neolithic Culture: Earthenware and Graves Chapter 3 – Bronze Age Culture 1: Man Meets God Chapter 4 – Bronze Age Culture 2: Religion and Power Chapter 5 – Petroglyphs: Civilization and People Chapter 6 – The History and Culture of the Iron Age: Gods and Heroes Chapter 7 – The Establishment of the Three Kingdoms Chapter 8 – Shamanism: From Kings to Peasants Chapter 9 – The Wuxing Philosophy: The Principles of Nature Chapter 10 – Buddhism 1: A Foreign and Attractive Concept and Culture Chapter 11 – Buddhism 2: Nations and Rebirth into the Pure Land Chapter 12 – Enlightenment: Eternal Life and the Desire for Long Life Chapter 13 – Taoism: Wuwei and other Taoist Beliefs Chapter 14 – Confucianism: The Concept of Governance and Social Order Chapter 15 – Tomb Murals: Art and Religious Beliefs Chapter 16 – Imaging the Essence of Ancient Thought and Religion
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- Country of Tears and Smiles
- Writer, professor of cultural anthropology at Hanyang University, humanitarian worker, and advocate for the education of North Korean refugee children, Chung Byung-ho has visited North Korean 10 times over the last 20 years to perform famine relief work and has actively pursued field research while interacting with North Korean refugees at the China-North Korean border. As the culmination of his extensive experience interacting with North Korea, this book reveals the many faces of life in North Korea while also providing balanced theoretical analysis on the North Korean system. In 2013, Chung Byung-ho’s book North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics became the topic of much discussion for its cultural anthropological analysis of the Kim regime and its power dynamics. This time, in Country of Tears and Smiles, Chung Byung-ho not only covers the changes and future of the Kim Jong-un regime, he also provides a vivid record of the daily life and thought processes of the North Korean people—individuals not included in the power system. The book explains the current lives of North Korean people, how this will change in the future, and what South Koreans need to do to prepare for these changes. Ultimately, the book claims that in order to overcome the cultural differences between South and North Koreans and recover a sense of community, South Korea needs to establish a basis for mutual understanding.
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- The Rainbow Wants More Colors Overcoming Hate Toward Sexual Minorities and Expanding Human Rights
- In March of 2016, the LGBT Studies Research Society of Korea gathered experts from various fields—including education, law, public health, social welfare, sociology, theology, and anthropology—for the goal of publishing a multidisciplinary book on the issues facing sexual minorities. This book is both the result of that meeting and the start of the LGBT Studies Research Society of Korea’s fight for LGBT rights. In this book, 19 authors from a wide range of fields share their knowledge of the various sexual identities and sexual orientations that transcend traditional gender binaries and heterosexualism. They also take aim at the Korean institutions that label sexual minorities as abnormal. Contents: Chapter 1 – Gender and Sexual Minorities: Impossible Imagination (Park Han-hui) Chapter 2 – Homosexuality, HIV Aids, and Hate (Kim Seung-seob) Chapter 3 – Living Complete as a Transgender (Park Han-hui) Chapter 4 – LGBT Labor: The Hate and Discrimination of Everyday and Precarious Labor Rights (Kim Jeong-hye) *Businesses that Respect Sexual Diversity (Kim Jeong-hye) Chapter 5 – Prejudice against Sexual Minorities: Overcoming Logical Mistakes (Choi Hun) Chapter 6 – Sexual Minorities and Christianity: Witch Trials (Zacchaeus) Chapter 7 – Looking for a Safe Place for LGBT Children (Kim Ji-hye) * Sexual Minorities and Education (Cho Dae-hun) Chapter 8 – LGBT and the Family: Our Coming-out (Lee Ji-ha) * Parents Who Have Experience the Coming-out of Their Children (Lee Ji-ha) Chapter 9 – Minority Families: Transcending the Normal Household (Kim Sun-nam) * LGBT and Reproduction Rights Chapter 10 – The Queer Movement and Democracy: Testimonies of Queer Thanatopolitics (Kim Hyeon-mi) * Anthropological Case Studies of Sexual Minorities (Kim Hyeon-mi) Chapter 11 – LGBT Rights and Legal Blind Spots (Lee Seung-hyeon) * Sexual Minorities and Criminal Suits (Lee Seung-hyeon) Chapter 12 – Queer Culture Festival: Festivals of Visibility and Pride (Cho Su-mi) * “We are here!” The 2018 Incheon Queer Festival (Cho Su-mi) Chapter 13 (Dialogue) – The History of Korean LGBT Movements (Hong Seong-su, Park Han-hui, Lee Jong-geol, Lee Ho-rim) * The Development of Youth and College LGBT Movements (Shim Ki-ong) Researchers Who Stand Up against Hatred Toward Sexual Minorities and Fight for a Society of Coexistence
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- The Smell of Swimming Pools
- How do we become adults? This is the question that Yoon-sun Park attempts to answer in her new comic book, The Smell of Swimming Pools, which recounts the adolescent years of Min-sun, an “apartment kid” living in the outskirts of Seoul. Set in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Seoul during a period of rapid growth, this book recounts the coming-of-age story of eight-year-old Min-sun, a young girl who swims with her local sports center swimming team. This is an apartment-kid, comic-book version of the famous Korean Drama Reply 1988. In this comic, author Yoon-sun Park—who was invited twice in 2019 and 2020 to compete in the Angoulême International Comics Festival (the Cannes Film Festival of the comic book world)—lucidly depicts from a universal perspective the scenes from childhood that we all vaguely remember. Min-sun, an eight-year-old girl living in the outskirts of Seoul, is forced to join the swimming team at the nagging of her education-crazy, penny-pinching mother. Min-sun’s mother tells her to join the varsity swim team like her older sister, who is good at everything, but not giving it much effort, Min-sun is content with swimming on junior varsity. But Min-sun doesn’t mind. She’s not interested in such things. Existing at the bottom of the pecking order at both home and school, Min-sun’s days are as unpleasant as the smell of chlorine at the pool. Her butt gets exposed to bullies; her mother forces her to go to the swimming pool every day; and she has to suffer the ridicule of her friends who laugh at her because both her parents work. With chlorine blue, Yoon-sun Park both candidly depicts the coldhearted world of an eight-year-old and explores our adolescent years, in which we grew while hanging on for survival.
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- Berlin, Berlin
- How did Berlin, the symbol of division, become the center of global culture? Looking for the hope to overcome division from the everyday strength that ended the Cold War After the Second World War, Berlin spent the next 40 years as the front line of the Cold War. West Berlin, which stood like an island in the middle of the territory of East Germany, was both a reason for conflict between East and West Germany and the motivation for both governments to search for exchange. Traversing the long series of historical moments from 1945 to 2019, author Eun-jeung Lee explores the hitherto little-researched life of Berliners, the true nature of exchange between East and West Germany, and the secret behind their negotiations. Whereas other books, both abroad and in Korea, either focus on the geopolitics surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall or give accounts of events from the perspective of political leaders, this book gives a balanced and realistic description of divided Berlin through interviews with real people and the extensive materials the author has amassed from living in Berlin since 1984. Author Eun-jeung Lee—who has used the experience of Berlin and Germany to research the roadmap toward cooperation between North and South Korea, and who has tried to globally contextualize the issue of peace on the Korean peninsula—argues that the driving force behind German unification was compromise, cooperation, and continuous exchange between the two countries.
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- Michael the Englishman and the Korean War
- Looking back at the war forgotten amidst the Korean Peninsula’s changes Activist and researcher for migrants and multiculturalism, Lee Hyang-gyu looks back at the war experiences of his father’s generation and mourns the deaths of those soldiers who participated in the Korean War. As someone living in a divided state, a son of a man displaced from his home in North Korea, and an academic who records the memories of war, Lee explores the wounds that the Korean War has left on our hearts and Korean society as a whole. In spring of 2018, after relations between North and South Korea showed major progress with a successful summit between the two countries, author Hyang-gyu Lee embarked on a journey to both search for peace and unification and mourn the generation that experienced the Korean War. Along that journey, he collected the tattered pictures left by Korean War soldiers, the record of a 20-year-old British soldier who was buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, and the diary his father wrote when he was forced to evacuate during the war. Using these, he has decided to rewrite the pages of history on a war that has yet to end. Exploring the war memories contain in yellowed records, and peering into lives overturned by tragedy, Lee expresses the sincere desire that the history of conflict and division will eventually lead to peace. These warm confessions of an author attempting to comfort the war generation offer an encouraging message to us as we try to move from conflict to reconciliation. Through his journey in search of various stories from the Korean War, Lee writes about a new peace that transcends generations, taking the reader from the story of a young Englishman who died in the Korean War and was buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan never to return home, to the story of an elderly Englishman who has had to live his entire life remembering the countless bodies he had to recover during the Korean War, all the way to the story of his father, who left his family behind in the North, never to see them again. These testimonies about the Korean War by elderly Koreans and British prove just how long the Korean War has been.
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