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Title: The Encyclopedia of Religion
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN Number: 0-02, 0-89256
Book Year: 1987
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

  

TOTAL POINTS

84

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

25,100

Portrayal: 10

Total: 0

Works Cited: 17 (34*)

 

Care of facts: 10

Maps: 0

 

 

Up-to-date: 10

Pict./Illust.: 0

 

 

Romanization: 10

Chart/Graph: 0

 

POINTS: 40

40

0

3.7

 * Points were doubled because of very detailed annotations.

Comments

Contains a thorough description of religions found in Korea. This is an excellent work.

  

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Title: Encyclopedia of World Cultures (Vol. V)
Publisher: G.K. Hall & Co.
ISBN Number: 0-8168-8840-X
Book Year: 1993
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

57

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

10,000

Portrayal: 10

Total: 1

Works Cited: 18

 

Care of facts: 10

Maps: 1

 

 

Up-to-date: 9

Pict./Illust.: 0

 

 

Romanization: 10

Chart/Graph: 0

 

POINTS: 15.9

39

0.5

2

 

Factual Errors or Inconsistencies

Page

Errors

Correction

Xxv, 141, 146

On these and several other pages, "Yi dynasty is used.

Chosön dynasty is preferred. P. 142 mentions Chosön as an alternative to Yi, but it should be the reverse.

Xxviii

Korean might be remotely related to it [Japanese] but it is probably to be classified as Ural-Altaic.

Recent scholarship has settled on calling Korean and Japanese part of the Altaic family; usually Ural and Altaic are thought to be unrelated and are not referred to with the hyphenated term Ural-Altaic andy more. On page 145, with the exception of the hyphenated form, the case is stated correctly.

Xxviii

Seoul...also know as...Kyöngsöng

Kyöngsöng is Korean for the Chinese characters that the Chinese use and pronounce Jingzhang, and the Japanese pronounce Keijo. No one uses the characters for the Korean pronunciation Kyöngsöng. Delete the term.

Xxviii

Before 1948 called Corea.

Should be, called Chosön.

141

Kolisuchök

Korisuchök (Paekch'öng would be better)

141

Yangmin [for scholar-gentry class]

Should be yangban for scholar-gentry class; yangmin means the commoners, the same as sangmin mentioned in the text.

143

Necha (puppeteers), macho (gamblers) are misromanized, dosa (butcher) is inaccurate

Butcher should probably be tosalcha. Necha and macho are not possible in the romanization system (neja or nech'a/ majo or mach'o) and are not found in dictionaries either.

147

5 percent extra is given to the eldest son in inheritance divisions.

Should be 50 percent, or one share and a half, extra.

147

93 percent literacy

98 to 99 percent of the population are literate.

147

Some genealogies recently published...list female members.

Unclear what is intended; should probably say, "some genealogies recently published list the descendants of female members of the lineage; whereas earlier practice was to list only the daughter's marriage data, but to exclude data on the posterity of the daughter.

 

Maps

Page

Topic

 

Map 2: East Asia, North and South Korea represented.

 

Comments

On page 141, Kolisuchök (which is mis-romanized for Korisuchök) is an odd term for the ethnic group described therein. It is debatable whether one should include an ethnic group that most Koreans do not recognize as a sub-category of ethnic group (as the text admits), but to call that group Korisuchök is a real problem. There are much better know as Paekch'öng.

There are some aspects of the articles on the three Korean groups that represent a minority opinion, that of the author. The texts would all be improved if they went through a review process by other Koreanists. Is this were dome, more of a consensus could be reached, and some of the idiosyncrasies would be eliminated. A more accurate reference work would result.

Overall, the work is technical and well done.

 

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Title: The World Atlas of Archaeology
Publisher: G.K. Hall & Co.
ISBN Number: 0-8161-8747-9
Book Year: 1985
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

55

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

5,500

Portrayal: 10

Total: 14

Works Cited: 0

 

Care of facts: 10

Maps: 3

 

 

Up-to-date: 10

Pict./Illust.: 11

 

 

Romanization: 9

Chart/Graph: 0

 

POINTS: 8.8

39

7

0

 

Factual Errors or Inconsistencies

Page

Errors

Correction

Overall

None found.

 

 

Maps

Page

Topic

285

Map of the ceramic trade route with Korea included.

295

Map of Korea and Japan in the Paleolithic and Meolithic periods.

299

Map of the route Buddhism took in getting to Japan with Korean included.

 

 Pictures or Illustrations

Page

Topic

294

The site of Sokchangni, Korea, a paleolithic discovery in Korea.

297

Needles and fishhooks from Korea.

297

Pottery with comb decoration from Korea.

298

Painting from the wall of a tomb entitled, the "Black Warrior."

298

Painting from the wall of a tomb entitled, the "Red Phoenix."

299

The interior of King Muryöng's tomb, Kyöngju, Korea, AD526

299

Gold crown from the great tomb of Hwangnam, Kyöngju, Korea, 5th-6th C.

299

Pottery figurine of an imaginary animal from Michuwang-nüng, Kyöngju, Korea, 6th C.

300

A small ornamental plaque in gilded bronze.

302

Plans of the remains of the mansetery at Ch'öngamni near P'yöngyangm Korea.

302

Tile from Sach'öngwangsa monastery at Puyö, Korea c. mid-6th century.

 

Comments

Overall, the work is technical and well-done; historical as well as pre-historic periods covered.

 

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Title: The Times Atlas of World History
Publisher: Hammond Incorporated
ISBN Number: 0-7230-0534-6
Book Year: 1993
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

51

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

1,600

Portrayal: 8

Total: 30

Works Cited: 0

 

Care of facts: 9

Maps: 26

 

 

Up-to-date: 9

Pict./Illust.: 1

 

 

Romanization: 8

Chart/Graph: 3

 

POINTS: 2.6

34

15

0

 

Factual Errors or Inconsistencies

Page

Errors

Correction

80

[Map] conquered and put under Chinese administration 109-106 BC.

Military outposts established 109-106 BC [there is no evidence of wide-spread control or conquest]

165

The restoration of Korea to vassal status.

With the establishment of a new dynasty in Korea, the Chosön, China and Korea returned to normal tributary relationships.

165

The Chinese sent huge armies to aid their vassals.

The Chinese sent huge armies in accordance with their tributary state obligations.

165

[Map] Japanese invasions of Korea under Hideyoshi 1582, 1592, 1597-98.

Delete 1582

170

The Manchus of the Ch'ing dynasty invaded Korea, reducing it to vassal status...

The Manchus of the Ch'ing dynasty invaded Korea, demanding that it accept Manchu supremacy and enter into a Chinese style tributary relationship.

347

[Index entry] Korea...conquered by China 80/3, 125/2.

Chinese military outposts in Korea.

 

Maps

Page

Topic

73

Religious map of the world with Korea included.

80

Map of Asia with Korea listed as being under Chinese administration 109-106 BC.

81

Map of the Han dynasty with Northern Korea (Lo-Lang) listed as a commandery.

124

Map of Asia with Korea represented.

125

Map of Asia with Korea when it was the Shilla kingdom.

125

Map of China with Korea peninsula when it was Koryö.

127

Map of the disruption of the Mongol Empire after 1259, Korea represented.

165

China during the Ming period when the Mings counter-attacked the Japanese to defend Korea.

171

Manchu expansion map, includes invasion of Korea and vassal status in 1637.

228

Fall of the Chinese Empire with Korea shown.

229

Map of China with Korea represented.

238

Map of the Russo-Japanese War, Korea represented.

239

Map of China with Korea represented.

241

Map of Colonial Powers in 1914-Korea represented.

258

The Northern Expedition of China 1926-6 - Korea represented.

258

The Nationalist (Kuomintang) regime of China (1928-37).

259

Chinese Communist movement to 1945- Korea represented.

259

Communist victories of China-Korea represented

266

Map of Japanese empire 1941-45-Korea included.

267

The Allied counter-offensive - Korea included.

274

Population density in East Asia from 1945 - Korea included.

274

The Korean War map.

275

Detailed map of Korea and Japan.

293

World map with Korea represented.

294

Map of the World in the 1990's - Korea included.

295

Map of European Foreign Direct Investment - Korea included.

  

Pictures or Illustrations

Page

Topic

165

A Ming naval ship in the defense of Korea.

 

Charts or Graphs

Page

Topic

239

Growth overseas: Japanese acquisitions 1875-1918.

294

Chart of the world's population growth.

294

Gross National Product per capita in 1991.

 

Comments

There are numerous maps throughout the text that are detailed, specific, aesthetically pleasing, and cover a variety of topics.

In the text, there are some distortions of China's relationship to Korea.

 

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Title: The Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
ISBN Number: 0-335, 0-85066, 0-903796, 0-905273, 1-85000
Book Year: 1990
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

51

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

9,500

Portrayal: 9

Total: 0

Works Cited: 46

 

Care of facts: 8

Maps: 0

 

 

Up-to-date: 8

Pict./Illust.: 0

 

 

Romanization: 6

Chart/Graph: 0

 

POINTS: 15.1

31

0

5

 

Factual Errors or Inconsistencies

Page

Errors

Correction

491

• North Korea's President: Kim Ir Sen
• Roman-Catholic Primate: Kim Son Hwa
• South Korean currency: 1 won = 100 chon

• North Korea's President: Kim Il Sung
• Roman-Catholic Primate: Kim Soo Hwan
• Chon [chön] is no longer used.

494

Korea War

Korean War

 

Comments

The volume contains an extensive and helpful bibliography for further reference purposes.

 

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Title: World Christian Encyclopedia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN Number: 0-19
Book Year: 1982
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

48

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

3,300

Portrayal: 9

Total: 19

Works Cited: 0

 

Care of facts: 10

Maps: 6

 

 

Up-to-date: 8

Pict./Illust.: 8

 

 

Romanization: 6

Chart/Graph: 6

 

POINTS: 5.3

33

9.5

0

 

Maps

Page

Topic

439

North Korea in relation to Asia.

440

• North Korea, in relation to China, the USSR, South Korea, and Japan.
• South Korea in relation to Asia.

441

South Korea, in relation to China, the USSR, North Korea, and Japan.

 

Pictures or Illustrations

Page

Topic

439

North Korean flag.

440

• Christian Mission to the Communist World sends balloons filled with tracts and literature across North Korean and Chinese skies.
• South Korean flag.

441

Korean funeral in a large cemetery, incorporating Shamanist, Buddhist, and Catholic elements.

442

•10th Pentecostal World Conference at the Full Gospel Central Church in Seoul, 1973.
• A choir performance in Hyo Chang stadium during the conference's final rally.

443

• Projected world headquarters of the Unification Church International (Tong-Il).
• Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon and his wife perform their seventh mass- wedding ceremony.
• True Jesus Church, Korean assembly.

 

Charts or Graphs

Page

Topic

439

• Table 1: Religious adherents in North Korea
• Secular Data: General information on North Korea

440

• Table 2: Organized churches and denominations in North Korea
• Secular Data: General information on South Korea

441

• Table 1: Religious adherents in South Korea

444

• Table 2: Organized churches and denominations in South Korea

 

Comments

The population of Seoul is given from 1970 statistics. The information could have been updated for this edition. This text was careful with its facts although they were somewhat out of date. The Romanization was inconsistent.

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Title: Dictionary of Asian American History
Publisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN Number: 962-279
Book Year: 1986
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

48

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

6,700

Portrayal: 9

Total: 1

Works Cited: 23

 

Care of facts: 9

Maps: 0

 

 

Up-to-date: 9

Pict./Illust.: 0

 

 

Romanization: 7

Chart/Graph: 1

 

POINTS: 10.7

34

.8

2.5

 

Charts or Graphs 

Page

Topic

21

Figure 1: A schema suggesting nine different paradigms on the rural- urban immigration continuum

 

Comments

There are two articles about Korea and Koreans. The first outlines the history of Korean immigration to the United States. The second lists several organizations that Koreans have established in America.

 

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Title: Past Worlds: The Times Atlas of Archaeology
Publisher: Hammond Incorporated
ISBN Number: 0-7230-0306-8
Book Year: 1988
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

46

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

1,400

Portrayal: 9

Total: 16

Works Cited: 0

 

Care of facts: 9

Maps: 13

 

 

Up-to-date: 10

Pict./Illust.: 2

 

 

Romanization: 8

Chart/Graph: 1

 

POINTS: 2.2

36

8

0

 

Factual Errors or Inconsistencies

Page

Errors

Correction

17

108 BC: Chinese take control of Korea, establishing military posts.

Chinese established military posts in t he northern parts of the Korean peninsula. [Chinese did not control the whole peninsula, and Korea, as a single entity did not exist at this point.]

18

The Shilla state controls Korea.

The Shilla state unifies the Korean peninsula.

20

[Omission of a major event on the timeline]

AD 1392: Establishment of Chosön dynasty in Korea.

20

AD 1397 Earliest surviving books printed with movable type in Korea.

Should be AD 1234.

21

[Omission of a major event on the timeline]

AD 1592 Hideyoshi (Japanese) invasion of Korea [mentioned in the text on page 266.]

 

Maps

Page

Topic

60

Map of the first Asian Hominids, Korea included.

93

Map of the advent of farming in Asia with Korea represented.

93

Map of the vegetation areas in East Asia, Korea represented.

101

Map of Old World pottery, Korea included.

190

Map of the origins of the Begram treasure, Korea represented.

191

Map of the Silk Road with Korea included.

192

Map of the Eastern and Western Chou in China with Korea represented.

195

Imperial China: Han Dynasty, Korea included.

197

Map of the introduction of rice c. 1000BC, Korea represented.

197

Map of Korea and Japan's early states.

261

Map of the spread of Buddhism, Korea included.

262

Tang China with Korea represented.

265

Map of the recovery under the Ming in China with Korea represented

 

Pictures or Illustrations

Page

Topic

197

Diadem with six pendants, from north mound of the Great Tomb of Hwangnam-ni

260

Korean decorated bell used in Buddhist ceremonies. Shilla period, 8th century AD.

  

Charts or Graphs

Page

Topic

14-21

World timeline. Several historical events relating to Korea are listed under "East Asia & Oceania."

 

Comments

Overall, the time periods covered are well done. The pre-historic period is well-covered; the historic period is scant, compared to China and Japan.

 

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Title: Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN Number: 0-674
Book Year: 1980
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

40

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

5,800

Portrayal: 8

Total: 1

Works Cited: 6

 

Care of facts: 8

Maps: 1

 

 

Up-to-date: 6

Pict./Illust.: 0

 

 

Romanization: 8

Chart/Graph: 0

 

POINTS: 9.2

30

.5

.7

 

Factual Errors or Inconsistencies

Page

Errors

Correction

601

• The Korean language, borrowed heavily from Chinese and Japanese.
• Hangul had 26 characters when invented in 1446.

• Korean language is definitely not borrowed from Japanese.
• Han'gul had 28 characters when invented in 1446.

 

Maps

Page

Topic

601

North and South Korea -- Major concentrations of Koreans in relation to China, the USSR, and Japan.

 

Comments

The reviewers felt that the initial portrayal of Korea in the article was somewhat misleading, but it improved as the narrative progressed. The history of Korean immigration to the United States was very well written and documented.

 

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Title: The Harper Atlas of World History
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
ISBN Number: 0-06-270067-7
Book Year: 1992
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

35

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

700

Portrayal: 7

Total: 10

Works Cited: 0

 

Care of facts: 8

Maps: 8

 

 

Up-to-date: 7

Pict./Illust.: 2

 

 

Romanization: 7

Chart/Graph: 0

 

POINTS: 1.1

29

5

0

 

Factual Errors or Inconsistencies

Page

Errors

Correction

5

108 BC. Annexation of Korea by China.

Military outposts established in northern parts of the Korean peninsula.

84

393 AD. The Tamato advance into Korea and take over there, at the expense of the Koguryo and Silla kingdoms. Japan seems to have been unified by the Tamato dynasty, ancestors of the imperial clan.

[This is one of the worst cases of distortion we have found. This statement is the worst of the remnant of Japanese imperialist propaganda.] The Yamato clan entered Japan from Korea with superior continental technology that enabled them to conquer the less sophisticated tribes. [...at the expense of Koguryö...is nonsense - Koguryö only controlled territory in the north.]

85

[Map] Mimana (under Japanese control until 562).

Mimana is a Japanese word: the small kingdom should be called Kaya, the Korean word. [Again, the Mimana concept is pure Japanese propaganda from pre WWII times.] The actual case is that this time frame is pre-state formation times. Korea was not Korea, Japan was not Japan. Kaya was a state with strong ties, probably because of migration from Korea to Japan, to one or more of the tribes in Japan. Remember, at the time in question, culture/civilization was moving from China to Korea to Japan, not vice versa.

145

Example of printing at the bottom of the page: Jik ji sim kyong

Korean edition of the Buddhist sutra Chikchi simgyöng [the heart sutra].

286

In Korea and Indochina the confrontation became an armed one. 1956 was a pivotal year.

The Korea War, 1950-53, was more pivotal than obscure crisis in 1956. The Korean War was the first flare-up of the Cold War-needs more coverage here.

302

1894: Japan annexes Korea.

1894-95: Sino-Japanese War. Japan wins concessions in Manchuria and Korea, and annexes Taiwan.

1910: Japan annexes Korea [elsewhere in the text, p.235, p.254, this date is given correctly].

  

Maps

Page

Topic

5

Map of Asia 250 BC - AD 220 with Korea included.

85

Map of Japan and Korea in the 1st - 12th centuries.

235

Division of the world circa 1900 with Korea represented.

254

Map of Japan with Korean peninsula.

255

1910 After the wars with China and Russia; includes Korea.

273

World Map from 1941-45 with Korea included.

295

Soviet influence in the world at the end of the 1970's with North Korea included.

303

Populations of the world with North and South Korea included.

 

Pictures or Illustrations

Page

Topic

145

A Buddhist treatise printed using movable type, 1377, Jik ji sim kyong.

286

Massacres in Korea. Painting by Picasso 1951.

 

Comments

The text was first published in French.

The repetition of unfounded Japanese propaganda in unfortunate.

 

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Title: Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
ISBN Number: 0-356
Book Year: 1980
Reviewer: Hae Kyoung Kim, Scott Moncrief

 

TOTAL POINTS

21

 

Word Count (40)

Accuracy (40)

Visuals (15)

Bibliography (5)

3,400

Portrayal: 5

Total: 0

Works Cited: 6

 

Care of facts: 5

Maps: 0

 

 

Up-to-date: 5

Pict./Illust.: 0

 

 

Romanization: 0

Chart/Graph: 0

 

POINTS: 5.4

15

0

.7

 

Factual Errors or Inconsistencies

Page

Errors

Correction

756

Miryek (Mirük), perhaps Buddhist in origin.

Mirük is future Buddha. It is unmistakably of Buddhist origin.

756

On the 15th day of the 6th moon, people wash their hair at the river in order to remove all misfortunes.

The correct date is the 15th day of the 5th moon (Tano).

757

Temples, kung, and myo are dedicated to different members of the royal family.

The text is dealing with worship ceremonies for the dead. Kung (palace) should not be part of this as it is a place where the royal family used to live.

 

Comments

Throughout the text, the romanization of Korean is extremely sloppy; it seemed to use several English-inspired systems and some influence from the French as well.

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