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In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor--a former Economist journalist and current Korean beer entrepreneur-- wants people to understand the true lives of everyday North Koreans. Using translated essays written by defectors, the book covers topics from politics to pornography. -- The Boston GlobeThe weekly column Ask A North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors . Adapted from the long-running column, these fascinating interviews provide authentic firsthand testimonies about life in North Korea and what is really happening inside the Hermit Kingdom.North Korean contributors to this book include: Seong who went to South Korea after dropping out during his final year of university. He is now training to be an elementary school teacher.Kang who left North Korea in 2005. He now lives in London, England.Cheol who was from South Hamgyeong in North Korea and is now a second-year university student in Seoul.Park worked and studied in Pyongyang before defecting to the U.S. in 2011. He is now studying at a U.S. college.Ask A North Korean sheds critical light on all aspects of North Korean politics and society and shows that, even in the world's most authoritarian regime, life goes on in ways that are very different from what outsiders may think. Begin to understand North Korea through the eyes of those who know it best--its defectors.

Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today. Martin Uden, Former British Ambassador to South Korea.

Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority. With this deeply anachronistic system eventually failed in the 1990s, it triggered a famine that decimated the countryside and obliterated the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people. However, it also changed life forever for those who survived. A lawless form of marketization came to replace the iron rice bowl of work in state companies, and the Orwellian mind control of the Korean Workers' Party was replaced for many by dreams of trade and profit. A new North Korea Society was born from the horrors of the era one that is more susceptible to outside information than ever before with the advent of k-pop and video-carrying USB sticks. This is the North Korean society that is described in this book. In seven fascinating chapters the authors explore what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary "man and woman on the street." They interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to bring a startling new insider's view of North Korean society from members of Pyongyang's ruling families to defectors from different periods and regions, to diplomats and NGOs with years of experience in the country, to cross-border traders from neighboring China, and textual accounts appearing in English, Korean and Chinese sources. The resulting stories reveal the horror as well as the innovation and humor which abound in this fascinating country

"A Geek in Korea reinvents the culture guide for the Internet age. Packed with articles and photographs, it covers all the touchstones of Korean culture--from Buddhism and Confucianism to chapters on the traditional arts and disciplines like Taekwondo. There are chapters on cultural code words and norms; personal relationships; business and technology; and symbols and practices that are peculiarly Korean. A number of chapters are devoted to Korean pop culture, with attention to the stars, idols, and urban subcultures associated with them. For visitors to Korea, the author includes a mini-guide to his favorite neighborhoods in Seoul and other places of outstanding interest."--Publisher description

Odkryj świat k-popu, taekwondo, Gangnam Style i kimchi! Wyrusz w podróż po zaułkach Seulu i zakamarkach koreańskich trendów! Poznaj tętniący energią przewodnik kulturowy, który porwał serca czytelników na całym świecie. Daniel Tudor, brytyjski dziennikarz, pisarz i przedsiębiorca od kilku lat mieszkający w Korei, jako samozwańczy geek wnikliwie przygląda się kulturze koreańskiej w przeróżnych jej odsłonach. Błyskotliwie i dowcipnie omawia niesamowite koreańskie trendy, które podbijają internet, i zdradza ich genezę, wszystko ilustrując znakomitymi zdjęciami. Przytacza rozmaite ciekawostki, zwraca uwagę na wyznaczniki koreańskiej kultury od buddyzmu po sztukę tradycyjną i taekwondo. Opowiada o specyfice relacji interpersonalnych, charakterystycznych symbolach i zwyczajach, a także oczywiście o gwiazdach popkultury. Jako dodatkową atrakcję oferuje miniprzewodnik po swoich ulubionych atrakcjach w Seulu. Geek w kraju k-popu to znakomita propozycja dla tych, którzy kochają Koreę całym sercem, tych, którzy chcieliby dowiedzieć o niej trochę więcej, oraz dla tych, którzy dopiero mają zamiar poznać fenomen koreańskiej fali, która podbija cały świat. A zatem: Jeulgeoun yeohaeng doeseyo! Dobrej podróży!