Please recommend a book that introduces Korea

Author: Zhan Xiaohong

Basic information·Publisher: Shandong People's Publishing House

·Page number : 209 pages

·ISBN: 7209036385

·Barcode: 9787209036382

·Edition: 1st Edition, February 2005

·Binding: paperback

·Format: 16 pages

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Introduction

Nowadays, the Korean wave is booming in China, and Korea has become fashionable, and some people are scolding Korea. But what is the real Korea like? The author of this book tells you the real Korea based on his own personal experience. The author has been visiting and giving lectures in South Korea for more than a year. He has profound observations, thinking and research on Korean society, economy and culture. He has long been published in well-known domestic media such as "Looking Oriental Weekly", "South Wind Window", "Economist Tea House" and so on. Write an article reviewing South Korea. This book covers major Korean events such as the impeachment of the president, parliamentary elections, hostage killings, and capital relocation turmoil. It records the development and twists and turns of Sino-South Korean relations, including the joy of the rapid development of Sino-South Korean economic and trade, and the pride of the "Han Current" sweeping the Korean Peninsula. There are also hidden concerns about the twists and turns in the relations between the two countries due to agricultural product trade and Goguryeo historical issues. We strive to objectively introduce a real Korea to the domestic intellectual public: multi-party politics, macroeconomics, Korean diplomacy surrounded by big powers, and extremely close relations with China. Similar cultures, as small as the marriage and family, food, clothing, housing and transportation of ordinary Koreans, the pressure to enter higher education, how Koreans view China, etc. This book is the first diary-style book in China written by an economist after a long-term field trip to South Korea.

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About the author

Zhan Xiaohong, born in Jiangxi Province in 1956, is a researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, deputy editor-in-chief of "Economic Research", and executive editor of "Economist Cafe". He is known as the "land protector" in the economics circle. He has been paying attention to Korean issues for a long time. From 2003 to 2004, he visited Korea to give lectures for one year. During his stay in Korea, he wrote a large number of articles introducing Korean politics, economy, society, culture, history and Korean university campus life, which were published in major domestic newspapers and periodicals. got a bigger response.

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Media recommendations

Book Review

Some people hate Korea and some criticize Korea, but what is the real Korea like? Zhan Xiaohong, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, kept a diary of what he saw, heard, and thought, telling you the real Korea through his personal experience.

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Editor's recommendation

Nowadays, the Korean wave is booming in China, and Korea has become fashionable, and some people are scolding Korea. But what is the real Korea like? The author of this book tells you the real Korea based on his own personal experience. The author has been visiting and giving lectures in South Korea for more than a year. He has profound observations, thinking and research on Korean society, economy and culture. He has long been published in well-known domestic media such as "Looking Oriental Weekly", "South Wind Window", "Economist Tea House" and so on. Write an article reviewing South Korea.

This book covers major Korean events such as the impeachment of the president, parliamentary elections, hostage killings, and capital relocation turmoil. It records the development and twists and turns of Sino-South Korean relations, including the joy of the rapid development of Sino-South Korean economic and trade, and the pride of the "Han Current" sweeping the Korean Peninsula. There are also hidden concerns about the twists and turns in the relations between the two countries due to agricultural product trade and Goguryeo historical issues. We strive to objectively introduce a real Korea to the domestic intellectual public: multi-party politics, macroeconomics, Korean diplomacy surrounded by big powers, and extremely close relations with China. Similar cultures, as small as the marriage and family, food, clothing, housing and transportation of ordinary Koreans, the pressure to enter higher education, how Koreans view China, etc. This book is the first diary-style book in China written by an economist after a long-term field trip to South Korea.

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Table of Contents

The night before leaving for Korea

Just arrived in Korea

Beautiful Chosun University

The long-lost idyllic life

"Time Lecturer" who graduated from Fudan University with a Ph.D.

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Abstract

Experience Korean university campus politics

Sunny Thursday, September 25, 2003

I had four classes in the morning, and the third grade ( Classes 1) and (2) have two classes each. These two classes have higher Chinese proficiency and are easier to teach, but there are differences. Most students who entered school before 2000 had studied Chinese in China for half a year or even a year. Students who entered school in 2001 had generally not been to China to study Chinese, and their performance in the classroom was very different. Those students who have never been to China, even though they are third-year students in the Chinese Department, have difficulty reading passages of text. Those who have been to China to study Chinese have little difficulty in talking and communicating with me.

It is not that big.

I have been here for almost a month, and I still don’t know much about campus culture. I arrive at school early when there are classes. I have seen various slogans, advertisements, picture exhibitions, and banners on campus since the beginning of the semester. I know what the content is, but it’s all in Korean. I have long heard that Korean university campuses are particularly active in political activities. How can we easily give up the opportunity of a field trip just because we don’t know Korean? In the afternoon, I asked a boy to lead me around the campus. The content of slogans and posters on campus can be described as diverse: most express anti-American sentiments, but there are also anti-Japanese remarks. At the entrance of the student union of the School of Engineering, I saw a row of billboards with many pictures posted on them. There were pictures of two girls who were crushed to death by US tanks last year. There was also a picture of a Korean farmer named Lee Kyung-hae protesting at this year's World Trade Conference in Cancun. Globalization, the photos of committing hara-kiri and bleeding all over the ground in opposition to external demands for South Korea to open its agricultural market, the student union's vote on whether South Korea should send troops to Iraq to maintain order (with an overwhelming majority of opponents), and other topics such as environmental protection and women's rights. Slogans and slogans on topics such as appeals. But advocating and calling for the reunification of North and South Korea is the most important content. There are many pictures on campus of the historic meeting between President Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong-il between the leaders of North and South Korea two years ago. They all regard the United States as the main culprit hindering the reunification of North and South Korea.

On the stage of the Student Union of the School of Art, I saw two English slogans: "fucking U.S.A" and "One Corea". The former slogan is directed at the United States, and the latter slogan is directed at Japan. According to my students, before Japan occupied Korea in 1910, the English name of North Korea was "COREA". However, because this English country name ranked before "JAPAN" in international rankings, the Japanese colonists forcibly changed it to "KOREA". Recently, the country's name-clearing movement is in full swing in South Korea. From these campus activities, you can see that South Korea is a country with strong national self-esteem, and college students have a strong sense of national cohesion. Most of them are sympathetic to the current situation of the North Korean people, and almost no one takes a gloating attitude. I think the reunification of the two Koreas is a matter of time, because the people of the North and the South have a high degree of identification with one North Korea.

College students (in fact, university professors as well) believe that the six-nation North Korea nuclear talks are pure nonsense. Other countries only care about their own interests and will not consider the interests of the people of North and South Korea at all. Only the North and the South care about their own nation's affairs. They were devastated by the war in the 1950s and believed that the resulting division of the country was due to the politics of the North and the South at that time