The Routledge intermediate Korean reader /
Jaehoon Yeon, Jieun Kiaer and Lucien Brown.
- ix, 204 pages.
- Routledge modern language readers .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 The Tangun myth; 2 Several statistics about Ch'usŏk; 3 The distance between Britain and Korea; 4 Racial discrimination in the multicultural age; 5 Dreaming of the globalisation of Korean food; 6 Hŭngbu and the swallows; Section 2; 7 The wife awoken from a coma aged five years old; 8 South-North Korean vocabulary; 9 The American perspective on the Dokdo dispute; 10 Hangul flourishes in the information technology era; 11 Gangnam mothers' 'buddy' education. 12 A day in the life of a 'soybean paste woman'Section 3; 13 The tale of Shim Ch'ŏng; 14 A modern view of loyalty and filial piety; 15 Please Look After Mom; 16 'Love does not give up on people', Briquette Road; 17 The Korean economy and the US economy; 18 Our Twisted Hero; English translations; Key to exercises; Grammatical index.
The Routledge Intermediate Korean Reader is a comprehensive reader designed to provide varied, stimulating and up-to-date reading material for learners of Korean at the intermediate level. The Korean Reader provides a bridge between basic literacy skills and the ability to read full novels and newspapers in Korean. It consists of eighteen readings, graded on the basis of complexity of vocabulary, grammar and syntax. These readings present a range of different text types representative of modern Korean literary and popular writing which will inspire learners to.