A Korea scholar, this book was born out of U.S. involvement in Korea at the end of the Pacific War, and as the tensions with Russia grew along the 38th Parallel.

This 1920s series of travel books were targeted to upper elementary grades to “furnish interesting silent-reading material of informational value…devoted to the most interesting and important countries of the world”.

Originally published in 1882, this early history of Korea in English by Japanese historian William Elliot Griffis became the dominant text on Korea during a critical period of history when Western interests began to converge on the peninsula.

This novel is based on the life of a young woman whom the author met during a one-year stay in China while doing humanitarian work near the North Korean border.

This novel, by a famous Korean author who suffered prison as a result of visiting North Korea, was created with the intent of healing fifty-plus years of deep and bloody wounds between North and South Korea that continue to mar an open dialogue between the two nations and even between family members.

Because so little is written from eyewitnesses who have survived the famines of North Korea, this book has its place in informing and revealing the closely held secrets of the DPRK regime.

For ten years in his youth, Kang was a prisoner in Yodok, a North Korean concentration camp geared toward “reeducating” ideological traitors and their families.

The lauded exhibition is concise with quality pieces that truly reflect the era.

An historical fiction that examines the last years of King Chongjo (r. 1777-1800), the grandson of King Yongjo, and more notably, the son of Crown Prince Sado, who was killed by his father, King Yongjo, who asked him to step into a rice chest and sealed it, whereupon he died of starvation.