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- The age of walls : how barriers between nations are changing our world / by Marshall, Tim,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index."Tim Marshall ... analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations. The globe has always been a world of walls, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to the Berlin Wall. But a new age of isolationism and economic nationalism is upon us, visible not just in Trump's obsession with building a wall on the Mexico border or in Britain's Brexit vote but in many other places as well. China has the great Firewall, holding back Western culture. Europe's countries are walling themselves against immigrants, terrorism, and currency issues. South Africa has heavily gated communities, and massive walls or fences separate people in the Middle East, Korea, Sudan, India, and other places around the world. In fact, at least sixty-five countries, more than a third of the world's nation-states, have barriers along their borders. There are many reasons why walls go up, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, and politics, to name a few. Understanding what is behind these divisions is essential to understanding much of what's going on in the world today"--
- Subjects: World politics.; Geopolitics.; Walls.; Boundaries.; Border security.;
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- The invisible hotel / by Ham, Yeji Y.,author.;
Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms -- and a quiet terror she is desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her mother wash the bones of their ancestors in their decrepit bathtub. Every house has them, these rotting and fragmented bones, reminders of what they have all lost to a war that never seems to end. Yewon and her siblings were born in this bathtub -- and every year women give birth to new babies in the bathtub. Now, Yewon's brother is stationed near the North Korean border, her sister has just undergone a life-changing tragedy, and her mother is constantly worried, her health declining. In crisis and in stasis, Yewon's dreams of the decrepit hotel lead her to an unsettling truth about her country's collective heritage.
- Subjects: Horror fiction.; Novels.; Generational trauma; Korean War, 1950-1953; Dreams;
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- Address Unknown. by Ki-duk, Kim,film director.; Jae-hyun, Cho,actor.; Young-min, Kim,actor.; Ban, Min-jung,actor.; Dong-geun, Yang,actor.; ECHELONSTUDIOS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Cho Jae-hyun, Kim Young-min, Min-jung Ban, Yang Dong-geunOriginally produced by ECHELONSTUDIOS in 2001.The residents living in the South Korean countryside around a U.S. military base are affected by its presence. These include an unstable, near psychotic American soldier who survives on a diet of LSD and rage, Eun-ok, a girl with one defective eye, Jihum a lonesome boy and Chang-guk, who lives in an old abandoned U.S. Air Force bus with his mother. She has taught Chang-guk English in an attempt to prepare him for their new life in the United States, reunited with his father whom she mails regularly, although the letters are always returned.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; War.; Motion pictures--Korea.; Motion pictures--Asia.;
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- Address Unknown. by Ki-duk, Kim,film director.; Jae-hyun, Cho,actor.; Young-min, Kim,actor.; Ban, Min-jung,actor.; Dong-geun, Yang,actor.; ECHELONSTUDIOS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Cho Jae-hyun, Kim Young-min, Min-jung Ban, Yang Dong-geunOriginally produced by ECHELONSTUDIOS in 2001.The residents living in the South Korean countryside around a U.S. military base are affected by its presence. These include an unstable, near psychotic American soldier who survives on a diet of LSD and rage, Eun-ok, a girl with one defective eye, Jihum a lonesome boy and Chang-guk, who lives in an old abandoned U.S. Air Force bus with his mother. She has taught Chang-guk English in an attempt to prepare him for their new life in the United States, reunited with his father whom she mails regularly, although the letters are always returned.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; War.; Motion pictures--Korea.; Motion pictures--Asia.;
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- Nuclear family : a novel / by Han, Joseph,author.;
"Mr. and Mrs. Cho run a successful chain of Hawai'ian plate lunch restaurants, and their adult children are finding their way in the world: 21-year-old Grace is graduating in a few months, and 25-year-old Jacob is teaching English in Seoul. They're set to take over the restaurants when Umma and Appa retire. But when Jacob is captured by the South Korean government for attempting to run across the DMZ, the Chos' peaceful lives are shattered. What could possess Jacob to do something so stupid? The Chos don't know that Jacob has been literally possessed by his wily grandfather's ghost, don't know that Jacob is hiding his bisexuality and confusion over his identity as a Korean-American; they don't know that Grace is constantly stoned and plotting her escape from the island and her family's expectations. The children don't know the burdens of their immigrant parents. Joseph Han draws from Korean myth to explore the generational trauma experienced by families shattered by partition, and the impacts of American imperialism on the Korean peninsula. Nuclear family is a spectacular debut novel -- at once devastating and hilarious -- about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home"--
- Subjects: Ghost stories.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Adult children of immigrants; Bisexuals; Family secrets; Identity (Psychology); Korean American families; Korean Americans;
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- Assassination [videorecording] / by Choi, Dong-hoon,film director,screenwriter,producer.; Lee, Jung-jae,actor.; Lee, Ki-cheol,screenwriter.; Soo-hyun, Ahn,producer.; Well Go USA, Inc.,film distributor.;
Cinematography, Yoo Sang-Sub ; editor, Sin Min-Kyung.Gianna Jun, Jung-woo Ha, Jung-Jae Lee, Dal-su Oh, Jin-woong Jo.While Korea is occupied by the Japanese Army in 1933, the resistance plans to kill the Japanese Commander. But their plan is threatened by a traitor within their group and also the enemies' forces are hunting them down.14A.DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and stereo.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Assassins; Escapes; Feature films.; Feature films.; Foreign films; Korean resistance movements, 1905-1945; Motion pictures, Korean.; Traitors;
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- Secret Reunion. by Jang, Hun,film director.; Dong-won, Gang,actor.; Kang-ho, Song,actor.; ODK Media (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Gang Dong-won, Song Kang-hoOriginally produced by ODK Media in 2010.Ji-won is a North Korean resident spy who begins a mission to assassinate a traitor. Hot-tempered South Korean intelligence agent Han-kyu gets to know such a plot and attempts to arrest him but fails. As a result, Han-kyu resigns from the agency. 6 years later, Han-kyu opens an investigation agency and comes across Ji-won once again. Wanting the bounty for bringing in Ji-won, Han-kyu offers him a partnership to keep him close.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.; Motion pictures--Korea.; Motion pictures--Asia.; Action films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).;
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