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Seoul's historic walks in sketches / Janghee Lee , translated by David Carruth.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Irvine, CA : Seoul Selection U.S.A., Inc., c2018Description: 343 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781624121111
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 915.195 L4771s
Summary: "Walk the past and present of Seoul... Like a photographer who waits to catch perfect light, Janghee Lee takes long looks at interesting places in Seoul and captures the details with honesty and passion. The drawings and anecdotes in 'Seoul's Historic Walks in Sketches' help readers understand and enjoy these details like no other..." "Daring to at once see Seoul as it is, appreciate its strengths, criticize its shortcomings, and even imagine its future, Janghee Lee renders this perpetually changing, seemingly incomprenehsible metropolis legible through realistically detailed, imaginative sketches of the city's guild environment and his accompanying writings, breezy yet deeply informed by a knowledge of the city's eventful and often troubled history." - back cover
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Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Window on Korea Non-fiction 915.195 L4771s (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2018 01 Available WOK000900
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"Walk the past and present of Seoul... Like a photographer who waits to catch perfect light, Janghee Lee takes long looks at interesting places in Seoul and captures the details with honesty and passion. The drawings and anecdotes in 'Seoul's Historic Walks in Sketches' help readers understand and enjoy these details like no other..." "Daring to at once see Seoul as it is, appreciate its strengths, criticize its shortcomings, and even imagine its future, Janghee Lee renders this perpetually changing, seemingly incomprenehsible metropolis legible through realistically detailed, imaginative sketches of the city's guild environment and his accompanying writings, breezy yet deeply informed by a knowledge of the city's eventful and often troubled history." - back cover

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