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The legend of the invincible fleet begins! Set five years before the epic battle depicted in The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Hansan: Rising Dragon is based on the true historical naval engagement, Battle of Hansan Island. In July 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his Korean naval fleet face off against invading Japanese naval warships. Falling into crisis, the admiral must use his secret weapon to change the tides in this epic battle at sea.
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Korean
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A revised Korean edition of [Pachinko] by Min Jin Lee. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist. Winner of the Medici Book Club Prize. An extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. Korean edition translated by Shin Seung Mi. Vol 1 of 2.
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Korean
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A revised Korean edition of [Pachinko] by Min Jin Lee. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist. Winner of the Medici Book Club Prize. An extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. Korean edition translated by Shin Seung Mi. Vol 2 of 2.
6) The pirates
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Korean
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A big reward is offered on the high seas to whoever can return the Great Emperors Seal swallowed by a giant whale. Pirates, bandits and misfits all clash to hunt down the whale and capture the reward.
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Korean
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A gripping and sensual tale of two women - a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden, but is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of a large inheritance. Inspired by the novel Fingersmith by British author Sarah Waters, The Handmaiden borrows the most dynamic elements of its source material and combines it with Park Chan-Wook̐ưs singular vision to create an unforgettable...
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Korean
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Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
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Korean
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Beautiful young Soonji meets Jaegu at a re-enactment of a South Korean historic event. Begins with stark documentary footage dealing with the actual event. Gradually, the story of Soonji and Jaegu during the re-enactment takes hold. Before long, the historic facts and fiction run against each other, as Soonji remembers her parents' plight of earlier times. As the re-enactment groups collide, so do the facts of Soonji's life and the fiction she is...
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Korean
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During Second Manchu invasion of Korea, one village is attacked by Manchurian soldiers. Manchurian kidnap Ja-in on her wedding day with her childhood sweetheart Seo-Goon. Her brother Nam-Yi defeats the enemy and saves his sister and the other Korean victims with only one bow.
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Korean
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Amid national chaos and fear for his life, tyrannical King Gwanghae orders his trusted counselor to find a royal body double. He recruits a crude, working-class peasant, Ha-seon, a village performer who bears a startling resemblance to the ruler. When the king falls into a coma from poisoning, he is secreted away to recover and Ha-seon reluctantly assumes the throne, forced to pull off history's biggest masquerade.
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Korean
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In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. In the midst of a reign of fear, a former KCIA director, Park Yong-gak, who knows all about the government's obscure and illegal operations, is exiled to the U.S., where he opens the floodgates to the investigation of Koreagate. As tension escalates, stifling political maneuvers by those desiring power...
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Korean
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Based on a true story set in 1980, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. What began as an easy fare becomes a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South...
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Korean
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Set during the early Joseon Dynasty in Korea, Hwa-Yeon, a minister's daughter, and Kwon-Yoo, a commoner, are deeply in love, but Hwa-Yeon is ordered to the royal palace to become the King's concubine. Five years later, Hwa-Yeon is the mother of the heir to the throne, but the dying King's step-mother appoints her biological son, Sung-won, who is madly in love with Hwa-Yeon, as successor. Now he must procreate to produce an heir, and can have any woman...
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Ungjin pijuŏl segye myŏngjak volume II-10
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Korean
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An abridged version of Charles Dicken's story of an orphan, Oliver, forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in 19th century London. Eventually he found his grandfathere and went to back to a comfortable life. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.