{"product_id":"2940013107328","title":"THE PASSING OF KOREA","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure.It is also searchable and contains hyper-links to chapters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*** \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHomer Bezaleel Hulbert (1863–1949) was an American  missionary, journalist and political activist who advocated for the independence of Korea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1886, he arrived in Korea with two other instructors, Delzell A. Bunker and George W. Gilmore, to teach English at the Royal English School.He stayed until his expulsion by the Japanese occupational government on May 8, 1907.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis final return to Korea was in 1949 and seven days later, Homer B. Hulbert died there, but a wish he had was granted, to be buried at Yanghwajin Foreigners' Cemetery in Seoul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe epitaph on his tombstone reads: \"I would rather be buried in Korea than in Westminster Abbey.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe text and photographs in this edition are rather expansive.  If this were a standard paperback, it would be no less than 500 pages! In consideration of the fact that the publication date was 1906, it is even more amazing that so much information about Korean culture, history, travel,economics, etc., can be crammed into one book!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe include here, the author's beautifully written PREFACE:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"MANY excellent books have been written about Korea, each of them approaching the subject from a slightly different angle. In the present volume I have attempted to handle the theme from a more intimate standpoint than that of the casual tourist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Much that is contained in this present volume is matter that has come under the writer's personal observation or has been derived directly from Koreans or from Korean works. Some of this matter has already appeared in The Korea Review and elsewhere. The historical survey is a condensation from the writer's \" History of Korea. \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a labour of love, undertaken in the days of Korea's distress, with the purpose of interesting the reading public in a country and a people that have been frequently maligned and sel dom appreciated. They are overshadowed by China on the one hand in respect of numbers, and by Japan on the other in respect of wit. They are neither good merchants like the one nor good fighters like the other, and yet they are far more like Anglo-Saxons in temperament than either, and they are by far the pleasantest people in the Far East to live amongst. Their failings are such as follow in the wake of ignorance everywhere, and the bettering of their opportunities will bring swift betterment to their condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For aid in the compilation of this book my thanks are mainly due to a host of kindly Koreans from every class in society, from the silk-clad yangban to the fettered criminal in prison, from the men who go up the mountains to monasteries to those who go down to the sea in ships.\"","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082211246320,"sku":"2940013107328","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013107328_p0.jpg?v=1763577041","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013107328","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}