BOOKS KOREA


Ahn, Sarah, Nam Soon Ahn, Umma: A Korean Mom's Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes, America's Test Kitchen, 2025

 

Baek, Jieun, North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society, Yale University Press; Illustrated edition, 2016

 

Bang, Michelle Jungmin, Sun & Ssukgat: The Korean Art of Self-Care, Wellness & Longevity, Harvest, 2025

 

Bonner, Nick, Made in North Korea: Graphics from Everyday Life in the DPRK, Phaidon Press, 2017

 

Brands, H. W., The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War, Anchor, 2017

 

Cha, Victor, David Kang, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Contemporary Asia in the World), Columbia University Press; revised and updated edition, 2018

 

Cha, Victor, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future, Ecco; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Cho, Grace M., Tastes Like War: A Memoir, The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2021

 

Cook, Sara, Bojagi: Design and Techniques in Korean Textile Art, Batsford, 2019

 

Cumings, Bruce, Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated), W. W. Norton; Updated edition, 2005

 

Cumings, Bruce, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles), Modern Library; Reprint edition, 2011

 

Delisle, Guy, Helge Dascher, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Drawn and Quarterly; 2nd edition, 2018

 

Demick, Barbara, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Random House; Reprint edition, 2010

 

Fehrenbach, T.R., This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, Potomac Books; 50th Anniversary edition, 2001

 

Fischer, Paul, A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power, Flatiron Books; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk, Janet Hong (Translator), Grass, Drawn and Quarterly; Illustrated edition, 2019

 

Halberstam, David, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, Hyperion; Reprint edition, 2008

 

Han, Hyonjeong Kim, Yun Gyun S. Hong, Couture Korea, Asian Art Museum, 2017

 

Hicks, George, The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 1997

 

Hong, Euny, The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture, Picador, 2025

 

Hwang, Kyung, A History of Korea (Palgrave Essential Histories Series), Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

 

Iwatate, Marcia, Kim Unsoo, Korea Style, Tuttle Publishing, 2018

 

Jackson, Van, On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War, Cambridge University Press, 2018

 

Jin-sung, Jang, Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea, Atria / 37 INK; 37th ed. Edition, 2015

 

Jong-yil, Ra, Jinna Park, Inside North Korea’s Theocracy: The Rise and Sudden Fall of Jang Song-thaek, State University of New York Press, 2019

 

Kang, Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag, Basic Books, 2005

 

Kang, Hildi, Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, Cornell University Press, 2005

 

Kim, Hooni, My Korea: Traditional Flavors, Modern Recipes, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

 

Kim, Monica, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Kim, Sung Chull, Michael D. Cohen, North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering the New Era of Deterrence, Georgetown University Press; Illustrated edition, 2017

 

Lankov, Andrei, The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia, Oxford University Press; Upd Rev edition, 2014

 

Lee, Hyo Jung, Teo Yang, Jeong: The Spirit of Korean Craft and Design, Phaidon Press, 2026

 

Maangchi, Martha Rose Shulman,  Maangchi's Big Book Of Korean Cooking: From Everyday Meals to Celebration Cuisine, Harvest, 2019

 

Magnum Photos, Bruce Cumings Ph.D., Korea: As Seen by Magnum Photographers, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

 

Martin, Bradley K., Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, St. Martin's Griffin, 2006

 

Matthews, Jill, Korean Gardens: Tradition, Symbolism and Resilience, Hollym International Corporation, 2019

 

Meiresonne, Bastian, Hallyuwood: The Ultimate Guide to Korean Cinema, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2025

 

Myers, B.R., The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters, Melville House; Reprint edition, 2011

 

Oberdorfer, Don and Robert Carlin, The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History, Basic Books; Revised Edition, 2013

 

Pak, Jung H., Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator, Ballantine Books, 2021

 

Panda, Ankit, Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Paquet, Darcy, New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves (Short Cuts), Wallflower Press, 2010

 

Park, Junghyun, Jungyoon Choi, The Korean Cookbook, Phaidon Press, 2023

 

Park, Nani, Robert J. Fouser, Inside The Korean House: Architecture and Design in the Contemporary Hanok, Tuttle Publishing, 2024

 

Park, Yeonmi, Jordan B. Peterson, While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America, Threshold Editions, 2024

 

Seth, Michael J., A History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010

 

Shin, Michael D., Korean History in Maps, Cambridge University Press, 2015

 

Sides, Hampton, On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir--the Greatest Battle of the Korean War, Vintage, 2019

 

Stone, I.F., Gregory Elich (Foreword), Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition, Monthly Review Press, 2023

 

Tudor, Daniel, A Geek in Korea: Discovering Asia's New Kingdom of Cool, Tuttle Publishing, 2014

 

Tudor, Daniel, James Pearson, North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors, Tuttle Publishing, 2018

 

Tudor, Daniel, Korea: The Impossible Country, Tuttle Publishing; Hardcover with Jacket edition, 2012

 

White, Geoff, The Lazarus Heist: Based on the No 1 Hit podcast, Penguin Business, 2023

 

Wit, Joel S., Daniel B. Poneman, Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis, Brookings Institution Press, 2005

 

Woo, Susie, Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire (Nation of Nations, 30), NYU Press, 2019

 

Yong-ho, Thae, Robert Lauler, Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider's Account of Life Among North Korea's Political Elite, Columbia University Press, 2024

 

Yoon, Grace, The Korean Herbal Apothecary: Ancient Wisdom for Wellness and Balance in the Modern World, Fair Winds Press, 2023




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