Award-winning journalist K. Connie Kang renders a moving generational saga in this portrait of her family's passage from their ancestral Korean home. Part family biography, part history, part memoir, this book is an affecting, absorbing tale of family and country, and an essential book for understanding the greatest Asian migration in this century.

This book introduces the culture and traditions of Korea, from ancient times to the present.

Over the last half-century, the Korean Peninsula has become a region that has stolen attention from all over the world. The world villagers have started to recognize Korea is not just a nation in the corner, but a ring of fire that could threaten their peace and safety directly or indirectly. So the concern about the conflict between the North and the South, from the Japanese rule to the Korean War to the Kim family era ━ Kim Il-sung, Kim Jung-il, and Kim Jong-un ━ to the abruptly bulged-out nuclear problem has grown bigger and bigger. So if anyone who wants to sympathize and look deeper into peace and danger beyond Asia to the globe needs to know about the heated Korean Peninsula first. And the readers of this book can learn the messages of Yin and Yang and Tragedy and Hope that are hard to find in other books.

The world has just been informed that after over 50 years of bitter strife, the two Koreas will finally reunite. Immigration Special Agent Janine Rosino is investigating a marriage fraud scheme wherein US soldiers in South Korea are bribed to marry South Korean females so that the latter will obtain lawful permanent residence in America. Atlantic City, NJ grocery store owner Kim Jol Soon lives a double life-one as a quiet, law-abiding, and hard-working immigrant, the other as a North Korean operative seeking to save his countrymen from starvation. He is secretly overjoyed at the prospect of reunification. Meanwhile, his "wife," Yool Ah, also an operative, does not take well to the plans of reunification and devises a plot to disrupt a ceremony in Washington. During the marriage fraud investigation, Janine's path crosses with Kim's. They fall for each other amid Yool Ah's vicious plot to assassinate the presidents of both Koreas.

Instability, danger, and intrigue follow a U.S. Army lieutenant and his wife in 1968 Korea as they try to safeguard their relationship-and their lives.

Sam Jenkins's experience as a New York detective and Tennessee police chief may be varied, but none is more interesting than his encounter with Korean organized crime.Two former call girls, hoping to establish a legitimate massage therapy business in Prospect, ask for Sam's help after a Korean mobster attempts to extort protection money from them. Jenkins agrees to investigate but wonders, is their business really aboveboard?Sorting out truth from fiction in this complicated investigation becomes only a minor problem for Jenkins after a Korean girl, employed by the ex-hookers, is found murdered. And the trouble doesn't stop there. When bodies begin piling up, Sam finds it difficult to link the victims other than by their ethnicity. That's when he again turns to the women in his life for assistance in his police endeavors. His wife, Kate; desk sergeant, Betty Lambert; and TV news anchor, Rachel Williamson, all contribute significantly to the successful closure of two murders in Prospect and finding who killed a pair of thugs in nearby Knoxville.As often happens, an old colleague from Sam's days in New York visits his former boss and the touristy town of Prospect, Tennessee. Retired Detective Fred Mazzio becomes intrigued with the murders and volunteers to team up with Jenkins's assistant, John Gallagher, another ex-New York cop, and follow the undeveloped leads. The two former partners bicker constantly, but lend their fifty years of police experience to the investigation.

I am more American than Korean in my mind, writes K. Connie Kang, "but am more Korean than American in my soul. As for my heart, it is split in half."

Mary Mac takes you on the path Mother Nature provides for transforming the morning CHAOS into the Morning CALM. This wonderful little book contains a powerful recipe for following Nature's way to a peaceful and purposeful day. It includes stories and exercises designed to bring the reader to a deeper awareness of the nature of 'self' and the power of your mental focus and intention in the creation of a life you want to get up and jump into every day!

"25 Albertype plates from photographs of Korea by Percival Lowell. Forbes Albertype Co., Boston, did the plates. This copy also contains two handwritten notes by Lowell laid in. One is of autobiograhical interest as Lowell gives a short resume in his career to this date. The pictures by him, as reproduced by the Forbes company, are striking and the tonal range of the collotypes is particularly effective in this book." -- Hanson collection catalog, p. 88.