Hwang Sok-yong, Kim Young-ha, Lee Seung-u, Kim Hyesoon, Shin Kyoung-sook, Yi Mun-yol, Krys Lee… and those were just the Korean literary figures that we got to see today. There were plenty more talks – mainly focusing on the Korean publishing industry – that we didn’t get to, thanks to unfortunate scheduling clashes, and writers from other countries who shared the platform, and moderators and translators too.
Each day’s events is going to take several days to write up, so in the meanwhile here are some photos of the first 24 hours.
Yi Mun-yol with Grace Koh at the British Library, 8 April
Shin Kyung-sook with interpreter Cho Yuna at Arifa Akbar, 8 April
Lee Seung-u and Kim Hyesoon, 8 April
Kim Young-ha with Krys Lee and translator Cho Yuna, 8 April
Hwang Sok-yong with Grace Koh and Kamila Shamsie on Writing Literature After History, 8 April
Earls Court exhibition centre
Hwang Sok-yong at the Free Word Centre, 7 April
Hwang Sok-yong’s books for sale at the Free Word Centre, 7 April