Audiobooks by Daniel Tudor

Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Eco

South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just fifty years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. With no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule, Korea managed to accomplish a second Asian miracle. Daniel Tudor is a journalist who has lived in and written about Korea for almost a decade. In Korea: The Impossible Country, Tudor examines Korea's cultural foundations; the Korean character; the public sphere in politics, business, and the workplace as well as the family, dating, and marriage. In doing so, he touches on topics as diverse as shamanism, clan-ism, the dilemma posed by North Korea, the myths about doing business in Korea, the Koreans' renowned hard-partying ethos, and why the infatuation with learning English is now causing massive social problems. South Korea has undergone two miracles at once: economic development and complete democratization. The question now is, will it become as some see Japan, a prosperous yet aging society, devoid of energy and momentum? Or will the dynamism of Korean society and its willingness to change-as well as the opportunity it has now to welcome outsiders into its fold-enable it to experience a third miracle that will propel it into the ranks of the world's leading nations regarding human culture, democracy, and wealth?

Daniel Tudor (Author), James Cameron Stewart (Narrator)

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North Korea Confidential

North Korea is a country where everyone is thought to worship a power-crazed dictator, where disputes with neighboring South Korea frequently break out into violence, where nuclear bombs are detonated with alarming regularity, and where most people are assumed to be on the verge of starvation. But is this an accurate view of daily life in North Korea today? Read this book to find out. In seven fascinating chapters the authors explore what life is really like for ordinary North Koreans. They tap a broad variety of sources-from interviews with members of Pyongyang's ruling elite to defectors, diplomats, NGOs and cross-border traders, as well as written accounts in English, Korean and Chinese-to bring together a radically different view of North Korean society today. These sources reveal that in North Korea, money can buy more or less anything, and ordinary people, poor and rich alike, regularly enjoy K-pop music, South Korean TV dramas, skinny jeans and even Chinese and American films which are smuggled into the country and sold on micro SD cards, DVDs and USB sticks by a network of wheelers and dealers who use a thriving black market to survive. Such snippets of information show that North Korean society is undergoing rapid and dynamic changes. Just as the 1950-53 Korean War created a generation of South Korean overachievers, the authors believe the mid-1990s famines in North Korea created important social and economic transformations that will eventually spur North Korea and its people to greater achievements.

Daniel Tudor, James Pearson (Author), Derek Perkins (Narrator)

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Ask a North Korean

The long-running "Ask a North Korean" column produced by NK News in Washington D.C. invites readers to ask questions of recent North Korean defectors about everyday issues that are not generally discussed in the media. These North Koreans provide authentic accounts of what's actually happening on the ground in North Korea today. Various aspects of life in North Korea are discussed in this book through a series of interviews with North Korean defectors. These interviews show that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, life goes on as usual and there is normality and continuity-unlike the view of North Korea commonly portrayed elsewhere.

Daniel Tudor (Author), Greta Jung, Greta Jung P. J. Ochlan, P. J. Ochlan (Narrator)

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