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Door Prizes
(Page numbers refer to book info/lessons located in Teaching East Asia: Korea)
A Single Shard (Homework option) Grades 4-8 and beyond/Medieval Korea, pp. 144-6
Bee-bim Bop! (Grades K-3) page 129
Dear Juno (Grades Pre-K-3) Pp. 132-3
The Name Jar (Pre-K and up) Pp. 130-131
Korea for Kids: An Intro to Korea for Young Readers
Lost Names (Homework option) High school and beyond/Japanese occupation, Pp.158-60.
Year of Impossible Goodbyes (autographed copy) Grades 8 and beyond/Japanese occupation/
Korean War.
Our Twisted Hero (Homework option/autographed copy by one of Korea’s most famous
contemporary authors). For high school and beyond. A Bully in the Classroom? Pp.152-55.
Tears of Blood: A Korean POW’s Fight for Freedom, Family and Justice (Homework option) Grade 8
and beyond/Korean War to recent times) Translated by Paul Kim when he was in high school.
Pp.283-4.
Still Life with Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean
Grandmother. High school and beyond. (Japanese occupation/Korean War/recent times).
Korea Today. Suitable for school libraries as it is a short, easy-to-read introduction to Korea. High
school and beyond.
Images of America: Los Angeles’s Koreatown. A history of Koreatown L.A. with extensive
photographs. High school and beyond. Written by a former seminar participant.
Additional Books and Resources donated by the
Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project
Website: www.kscpp.net. All listed books are on the website. Information can be found on
the KSCPP website about an annual national essay contest with prizes. Remember this!!
Donated Books: Admiral Yi-Sun-sin, King Sejong the Great, Chung-Hyo Ye (folk tales), Fifty
Wonders of Korea (Volume I), Fifty Wonders of Korea (Volume 2), Master Wonhyo (famous Buddhist
monk), Practice of Hongik Ingan (Korean values), and Taste of Korea (Korean food)
Early Korean History and Culture
Hyungwook Kim
Key Points
. Although people have inhabited East Asia since Paleolithic times, it took many millennia for them to
develop into distinct countries with unified identities.
. Their development was a process marked by both autonomy and shared cultures. Each country has
unique origins, culture, and social customs that distinguish it from its neighbors, but there also was
extensive exchange of ideas, material goods, and technology.
. Additionally, Korea has not just been a transmitter of culture between China and Japan, but has had an
active role in the production and exchange of cultures within East Asia and beyond.
Pre-Historic Period in Korean History
. Paleolithic P.: ca. 50,000 BP – 8,000 BCE; chipped stone tools and stone scraper
. Neolithic P.: ca. 8,000 BCE – 1,500 BCE; pit dwelling; pottery, hunting and gathering
. Bronze P.: ca. 1,500 BCE – 300 BCE; agricultural; social inheritance; dolmens; petroglyph
Cf. Dangun (Mythical Origins)
. Iron P.: since ca. 300 BCE; bronze goods, burials; greater stratification in society
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