Based on a story by long-standing collaborator Choe In-ho, Whale Hunting is one of Korea’s seminal road movies. Hunting the whale, in the dark days of the dictatorship, was symbolic for yearning for things beyond the day-to-day. In Bae Chang-ho’s 1984 movie it represented the search for the things that give life meaning; in a […]
Authors: Choi In-ho
Selected publications
- Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology ed Bruce Fulton, Youngmin Kwon
- Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction (expanded edition) ed Marshall R Pihl, Bruce + Ju-chan Fulton
A week-long programme of films based on Korean novels at SOAS
April is the month of the London Book Fair (14-16 April at Olympia). Last year Korea was the market focus, an honour assumed by Mexico this year. But the Korea Publishers Association, LTI Korea and other bodies will be attending to fly the flag for Korea. To remind us of the fun we had last […]