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Hymn of the Spirit
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The Waves
No synopsis available Review in Korean American Story: https://koreanamericanstory.org/the-waves-by-kang-shin-jae/ [Read More]
The Road to Sampo and Other Korean Short Stories
Contains the following stories: Hwang Sok-yong: The Road to Sampo Lee Byeng-ju: The wind and landscape of Yenang Ch’oe In-ho: Another Man’s Room Cho Se-hui: The Spiny Fish entering my net Cho Se-hui: On the footbridge Cho Hae-il: Iron masks Shin Sang-ung: Pyeon’s Death Yun Hŭng-gil: Group beating Kim Joo-young: The moon-welcoming flower [Read More]
The Cry of the Harp and other Korean short stories
Volume 2 of “The Best Korean Short Stories” Contains the following stories by Choe Cheong-hui: Chomnye Round and Round the Pagoda The Cry of the Harp The Ritual at the Well [Read More]
Kong’s Garden (Yeoyu)
Imagine Cormac McCarthy writing about the boring lives of clerks and you’ll anticipate something of the dystopic flavour of this gripping but socially bleak short story from Hwang. In a Korean world in which education has historically meant everything, the narrator realizes both that this is not true (through her partner in an essentially loveless … [Read More]
Hospital Room 205 and Other Korean Short Stories
Contains the following stories: Choe Cheong-hui: Hospital room 205 tr Edward D Rockstein Choe Cheong-hui: When the cricket chirrs tr Kim Chong-un Hahn Moo-Sook: Shadow tr Richard Rutt Hahn Moo-Sook: The Rock tr Chung Chong-hwa Han Malsook: Mr. Kim, the bohemian minstrel tr Richard Rutt Im Og-in: The new life tr Sol Sun-bong Kang Kyŏng-ae: … [Read More]
Loess Valley and Other Korean Short Stories
Contains the following stories Kim Dong-ni: Loess Valley Kim Dong-ni: The Shaman Painting / Picture of a Shaman Sorceress Kim Dong-ni: The Rock Kim Dong-ni: Two Reservists Kim Dong-ni: Tŭngsin-bul Kim Dong-ni: Cry of the magpie Oh Young-Soo: Seaside Village Oh Young-Soo: Wild Grapes Oh Young-Soo: Uncle Soldier Oh Young-Soo: Adolescence Oh Young-Soo: Nami and … [Read More]
The Good People: Korean Stories
Contains the following stories: Nami and the taffyman The woman from Hwasan Uncle Seaside village A death at the mill Spring’s awakening Migratory birds The girl from an island Wine Afterglow [Read More]
Postwar Korean Short Stories: An Anthology
Originally published by Seoul National University Press in 1974 Includes the following stories Kim Dong-ni: Father and son Oh Sang-won: A respite Chang Yong-hak: Poems of John the Baptist Son Chang-sop: Walking in the snow Sŏnu Hŭi: One way Sŏ Ki-wŏn: The uncharted map Pak Yong-jun: The last parting Hwang Sun-won: Time for You and … [Read More]
The unenlightened and other Korean short stories
Contains the following short stories An Su-gil: The green chrysanthemum tr Chong In-sop Ch’ae Man-Sik: My Innocent Uncle / My Idiot Uncle tr Yi Kyong-sik Hyeon Jin-geon: The death of my grandmother tr Adrian Buzo Kim Yi-sok: Tombstone without an inscription tr Mun Sang-duk Kim Yu-jeong: The Visitor tr Suh Ji-moon Kye Yong-muk: Adada the … [Read More]
Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-century Korean Stories
Not to be confused with Hawon Jung’s 2023 title Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’ s Rights Worldwide – for which see this entry Contains the following stories: Hyeon Jin-geon: The Fire Kim Dong-in: Potatoes / Sweet Potato Yi Hyo-seok: When the Buckwheat Blooms … [Read More]
The Elephant (Bi-lingual, Vol 49 – Diaspora)
No synopsis available online We guess the translators are Nicholas Yohan Duvernay, Lee Moon-ok, as they were responsible for a version of the text published in LTI Korea’s New Writing From Korea vol 1 (2008) [Read More]
Robbery Training (Bi-lingual, Vol 61 – Relationship)
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Magnolia Park (Bi-lingual, Vol 22 – Love and Love Affairs)
“Yeah, sometimes I go for walks in the cemetery,” she admitted. “It’s just around to the left side from here. When I walk around and read the epitaphs written on the gravestones, it almost feels like I’m walking through a crowd of people gathered in a park. Just like living people you see walking around … [Read More]
Photo Shop Murder
‘Reality is stranger than fiction,’ or so the saying goes, but few would deny that the madness of contemporary society is captured in the work of Kim Young-Ha, one of the leading young literary voices of Korea. There’s no Hollywood here-no omniscient audience, or plot lines which have all folded neatly together by the time … [Read More]