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Two travelers and other Korean short stories

Contains the following stories: Ch’oe Illam: The color of mugwort Ha Keun-chan: The spring song Ha Keun-chan: The Suffering of Two Generations / Ill-fated father and son Ha Keun-chan: The white paper beard Kwon Tae-ung: The hunchback of Seoul O Yu-gwon: Two travelers Pak Yŏng-suk: Eroica Symphony Sŏ Ki-wŏn: Half-Holiday Song Pyong-su: Debris [Read More]

A Respite and other Korean short stories

Contains the following stories: Chang Yong-hak: Poems of John the Baptist Chŏn Kwang-yong : Driver’s assistant Chŏn Kwang-yong : Kapitan Ri Kim Song-han: Badby Nam Jung-hyun: Chaos Oh Sang-won: A respite Son Chang-sop: Walking in the snow Yi Ho-ch’ŏl: The sultriness of a cold evening Yi Ho-ch’ŏl: Torn flesh [Read More]

A Good Family

This collection of eight stories cynical and sympathetic by turns represents the author’s attempt to document and understand the conflicts, resentments, hatreds, and anxieties of contemporary family life. The title story depicts a mother’s busy day playing numerous roles ashamed, fearless, or humble depending on which member of her family she’s tending to. In “The … [Read More]

Potatoes (Bi-lingual, Vol 86 – The Naked in the Colony)

Theoretically available separately, but difficult to find. Seoul Selection only seem to sell it as part of the 15 volume set, which is set 6 of their ongoing bilingual series. However, the story is available in many anthologies. [Read More]

Record of a journey to Mujin (Bi-lingual, Vol 6 – Industrialization)

Mujin represents the limits reconfirmed. It represents not only the line between the positive and the negative, and between the modern and anti-modern or the un-modern, but also the line between the normal and the abnormal, and between life and death. And the “Record of a Journey to Mujin” is a record of the experience … [Read More]

Home-Coming and Other Korean Short Stories

Contains the following stories: Hong Song-won: A boy in search of rest tr Sol Sun-bong Kim Seung-ok: Good bargain tr Yi Yong-gol, Sister Janice Hilburn Kim Seung-ok: Operation tr Yi Yong-gol, Sister Janice Hilburn Kim Seung-ok: Record of a journey to Mujin tr Kevin O’Rourke Kim Seung-ok: Seoul, 1964, Winter  tr Marshall R. Pihl Seo … [Read More]

The Cruel City and Other Korean Short Stories

Contains the stories: Choe Cheong-hui: Chomnye tr Genell Y Poitras Choe Cheong-hui: Round and Round the Pagoda tr Genell Y Poitras Choe Cheong-hui: The Ritual at the Well tr Genell Y Poitras Hwang Sun-won: The Moon and the Crab’s Legs tr Edward W Poitras Pak Yong-jun: The Touch of Life tr Choe Yong Yi Ch’ŏng-jun: … [Read More]

The Star and Other Korean Short Stories

Eight stories by leading contemporary writers of Korea providing deeply moving insights into the human condition. They reflect a common concern with the social realities of the 1980s, with sadness and triumph emerging as unifying themes. The source of this humanity, as these stories strongly reveal, lies in powerful family bonds and a deep nostalgia … [Read More]

Ten Korean Short Stories

Ten Korean Short Stories samples two generations of Korean short stories, bringing to life the first faltering steps of an ancient land entering the modern age, evoking in truly memorable fashion the spirit that stir the hearts of her people. Here is the pain and anguish of people oppressed by the conqueror, the tragedy of … [Read More]

Dinner with Buffett (K-Fiction 001)

This K-Fiction Series represents the brightest of young imaginative voices in contemporary Korean fiction. Each issue consists of a wide range of outstanding contemporary Korean short stories that the editorial board of Asia carefully selects each season. These stories are then translated by professional Korean literature translators, all of whom take special care to faithfully … [Read More]

The Book of Masks

Hwang Sun-won has no peer among living Korean writers. The Book of Masks is widely regarded as the greatest work of his long and distinguished career. These are revealing, gripping and disturbing stories of South Korean life today. Contains the following stories: A Numerical Enigma Blood Folding the Umbrella For Dear Life In a Small … [Read More]

Christmas Specials (Bi-lingual, Vol 35 – Seoul)

“A few days before Christmas, he was drinking coffee from a vending machine in the rest area of a library. He pulled out the fountain pen the woman had given him as a graduation present and started to jot down projected expenses for a Christmas date. Dinner: 20,000 won. Movie Tickets: 14,000 won. Present: 20,000 … [Read More]