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English
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264

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Cover of: Korea's pastimes and customs
Korea's pastimes and customs: a social history
2006, Homa Sekey Books, Homa & Sekey Books
in English - 1st American ed.
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Korea's Pastimes and Customs: A Social History
November 25, 2005, Homa & Sekey Books
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Table of Contents

Part I: Pastimes
A good baduk player was welcome everywhere
Gambling: the ruin of families
Pastimes for boys
Pastimes for girls
Open-air pastimes for girls
Pastimes for both sexes
Men's pastimes for discipline and martial prowess
Part II: Customs
Importance of clan affiliation
The life of won gyeongha, a yangaban (a man of high birth)
Seasonal customs
Farmers? co-ops (dure) bring peasants together
Banning luxury goods? the road to a strong, prosperous nation
Part III: Insatiable curiosity about the future
Predicting the future according to the secrets of tojeong (tojeong bigyeol)
Forewarned is forearmed
Peace of mind comes from abstinence
Four pillars (saju) and physiognomy.

Edition Notes

Includes index.
Partial translation of Lee E-Wha's History of Korea, Vol. 14.

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Paramus, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
390/.09519/0903
Library of Congress
DS904 .Y47 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
264

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3404336M
ISBN 10
1931907382
LCCN
2005019691
OCLC/WorldCat
60856166

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