My Korea : : 40 Years Without a Horsehair Hat / / Kevin O'Rourke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: O'Rourke, Kevin,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems. The book seeks to tell the reader all that he or she needs to know for a full and rewarding life in Korea or as a visitor passing through. Confucianism, Buddhism, relationships, everyday living, language and literature are comprehensively covered. Newcomers to Korea are provided with insights into daily life. They are told how to deal with people and the intricacies of honorific language, how to handle business dealings, how to be comfortable with social ranking, and how to react when they bump into the cultural wall.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 KOREA IN THE 1960s -- 2 THE COLUMBANS -- 3 LEARNING THE ROPES -- 4 CULTURAL ADAPTATION -- 5 IN AT THE DEEP END -- 6 THE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE: WHERE TO BEGIN -- 7 THE CONFUCIAN MONOLITH -- 8 THE CHOSŎN BUREAUCRACY -- 9 THE BUDDHIST INGREDIENT -- 10 EXCLUSIVITY MYTHS -- 11 CHILMAJAE SONGS -- 12 KOREA’S GREATEST ASSET -- 13 TALES OF THE IMMORTALS -- 14 AT THE CULTURAL COALFACE: IMMERSION, SUBMERSION? – TAKE YOUR PICK -- 15 NINE PRIEST IMMORTALS -- 16 SEEKING THE WAY -- 17 FOR THOSE OF US WITH LESS THAN IMMORTAL STATUS -- 18 LEARNING KOREAN -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX