Screen LibraryDMZ : Demilitarized Zone of Korea /
This book is Park Jongwoo's photo-documentation of the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ of Korea, the strip of land dividing North and South Korea. About 248 km long, 4 km wide, and 60 km from Seoul, this buffer zone between the two countries is, despite its name, one of the most militarized borders i...
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Steidl,
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| Publisher Address: | Göttingen, Germany : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
This book is Park Jongwoo's photo-documentation of the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ of Korea, the strip of land dividing North and South Korea. About 248 km long, 4 km wide, and 60 km from Seoul, this buffer zone between the two countries is, despite its name, one of the most militarized borders in the world, operating under strict armistice conditions following the end of the Korean War in 1953. In 2009 the South Korean Ministry of National Defense invited Park to document the DMZ, an area normally inaccessible to civilians and of which no comprehensive photographic record existed. Park did so |
| Item Description: | Reproductions of photographs. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colou), maps ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: |
9783958293151 3958293158 |
| Index Number: | DS924 |
| CLC: | K312.49-64 |
| Call Number: | K312.49-64/P152 |