Tag: Korean Lit
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Your Metamorphosis by Kim Ewhan (너의 변신, 김이환)
Your Metamorphosis is an extraordinary short story that challenges the boundaries of the bodily. Through his gripping science fiction, author Kim Ewhan places us teetering on the edge of medical speculation, pushing us to consider the corporeal consequences of human identity. When presented with the opportunity to surgically achieve the perfect body, how far can…
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The Best Books I Read in 2021
2021 was a year of transition—I moved back to America after almost three years living in Korea, I threw myself into language study, and I tried to avoid feeling stagnant as I moved back in with my parents and worked from home. I can remember most of my year from what books I was reading…
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Human Acts by Han Kang
Please be aware that there is a content warning for graphic violence, death, and trauma from real historical events. Human Acts is part historical account of the Gwangju Uprising and part lucid dream of grief and trauma. Han Kang muses about the cruelty human beings are capable of, and wonders if this brutality is fundamentally…
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Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River by Jung Young Moon
This is a book about Texas. It’s also about boysenberries, yogis, cats in space, Hemingway, cowboy churches, Marx, and more. It’s about all of these things and none of these things. From the lens of a Korean visiting Texas on a writer’s residency, he chronicles all of the hyper-Americana that the state has to offer…
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To The Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young
One hundred thousand Koreans dead in a single day. The next day five hundred thousand—all dead from a strange virus, rapidly mutating with every vaccine. Rumors begin to circulate that eating the livers of little girls will cure the disease. To protect her remaining family, Dori flees with her younger sister to the barren expanse…
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The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun
This review was originally submitted as part of the Korean Literature Review Contest with the Literature Translation Institute of Korea and was titled: How Bureaucracy and Capitalism Contribute to Cataclysmic Complacency: a review of The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun because we like to have fun here. “Disaster and catastrophe aren’t just within the realm…
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