Anyone who has read Yi Mun-yol’s popular book The Poet may be interested in a new book which sets out the historical background. In Yi’s fictional biography, the poet Kim Sakkat is ostracised from society, condemned to life as a vagabond, because of his grandfather’s actions during the peasants’ revolt in Northest Korea in 1812. … [Read More]
Author: Sun Joo Kim
Selected publications by Sun Joo Kim
- Voice from the North: Resurrecting Regional Identity Through the Life and Work of Yi Sihang (1672–1736), Stanford University Press 2013
- Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812, University of Washington Press 2009
Selected translations by Sun Joo Kim
- Anthology: Wrongful Deaths: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea ed Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim, University of Washington Press 2014