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Book Review by Paul Ensor

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Book Review by Paul Ensor
Article
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Journal
FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW
Issued Date
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Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
HONG KONG
City
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Book
Memoirs of a Korean queen
Writer
Hyegyeong-Gung Hong
Translator
Choe-Wall Yang-hi

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  • Hyegyeong-Gung Hong
  • Birth : 1735 ~ 1815
  • Occupation : Essayist
  • First Name : Hyegyeonggunghongssi
  • Family Name : Hyegyeonggung
  • Korean Name : 혜경궁 홍씨
  • ISNI : 0000000117947733
  • Works : 13
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On both sides of the demilitarised zone which divides the North and South, modern Korean culture has a strongly formalistic side verging on the severe. The careful attention to correct- ness in ideology and behaviour is in part traceable to the neo-Confucian traditions of the Yi dynasty (from 1392 until the country was annexed by Japan in 1910). But despite the formalistic side of their culture, the Korean people remain among the most individualistic in East Asia, highly expressive and emotional, and at times disarmingly straightforward even to Western sensibilities.

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