Kim Cho-yeop, who won the Best Writer Award at the Galaxy Awards, China’s science fiction literary award, with his novel collection If We Can’t Go at the Speed of Light, proved that he is loved by readers all over the world, and his first novel, The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth, showed the … [Read More]
Archives: Books (page 20)
If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light
From Korean science fiction author Kim Cho-yeop, a stunning and poignant collection of literary speculative fiction stories that explore the complexities of identity, love, death, and the search for life’s meaning, perfect for fans of Exhalation and The Paper Menagerie. In If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light, Korean science fiction superstar Kim … [Read More]
Your Neighbour’s Table
From the award-winning author of The Old Woman with the Knife comes the thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood, through four women whose lives intersect in unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex outside Seoul When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she’s … [Read More]
North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea
The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under mature Stalinism characterized by manipulation, brutality and tight social control. Nevertheless, some citizens of Kim Jong Il’s regime manage to transcend his tyranny in their daily existence. This book describes that difficult but determined … [Read More]
Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence
Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations reveals the genesis and evolution of Southeast Asian countries’ diplomatic relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK/North Korea) by unpacking the underlying political, economic, and security connections. In this book, chapters analyse in detail the individual bilateral linkages of the ten states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) … [Read More]
The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea
North Korea is commonly thought of as the most mysterious place in the world. The country is marked by its opacity and inaccessibility, its inner workings seen as impossible for outsiders to grasp. In this groundbreaking book, the leading scholar and practitioner Victor D. Cha shines a light into the “black box” of North Korea … [Read More]
Every Moment Was You: Notes on Loving and Parting
The Korean best-selling title since 2018 and the winner of the 2018 YES 24 Book of the Year Award, that encourages us to celebrate our ordinary life and love in every moment, Every Moment Was You, is finally available in English! ✨ Captured the hearts of more than 500,000 readers in South Korea. ✨ As … [Read More]
Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and Deconstruct
Explore the vibrant history and profound cultural resonance of feminist art from Korea and the diaspora Renowned curator and scholar Dr. Kim Hong-hee’s book is the first to delve into Korean feminist artists’ impact on the East Asian cultural landscape. This unprecedented visual survey celebrates the work of 42 contemporary artists, from rising stars to … [Read More]
Plastic Rice
A warm, hearty bowl of rice made lovingly for the most important person in his life. The only catch? The rice is plastic. It was a few days after she left. I had run out of the instant rice I always kept on hand for emergencies and was contemplating going out to eat when the … [Read More]
Waltzing with Mosquitoes
A mosquito lies in wait until the perfect moment. One must be measured and patient in this battle of wits—rarely is the fool who moves first ultimately victorious. It was a rainy spring day when I first witnessed the mosquito’s waltz through my open window. It moved lyrically through the air, dodging raindrops perfectly in … [Read More]
The Butterfly Disease
One night, a giant butterfly shadow sweeps over a city and its inhabitants. Most people rise the next morning to a day just like any other. Some, however, never wake up. Afflicted with the Butterfly Disease, they lose themselves in a series of pleasant dreams that always end in death. As always the sun began … [Read More]
The Daily Prophet
I had never distrusted Big Data. I accepted all its decisions and walked the path it laid out for me. Even the date of my birth had been set to the most optimal day through machine learning. My entire life, I lived without doubt. But as time went on, I lost vigor. Life slowly drained … [Read More]
The Midnight Shift
A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness. When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn’t understand why she’s the only one at her precinct that seems to care. But her colleagues at … [Read More]
Molting
In college, I began fixating on my appearance. I obsessed over my large, round nose, lamented how it threw off the balance of my entire face, didn’t go with any of my outfits, and even seemed to wobble about on my face whenever I ran. It had no redeeming qualities except for the functions every … [Read More]
Blurred Lines
Sleeping pills. Sleep. A dream. The dream world is almost like reality, but not quite. The sun is bright, but not warm. People’s faces shift and morph. Most importantly, in this world, he can do whatever he wants without consequence. The man, as always, is tending to the camellia bush in the yard and I, … [Read More]
The Butterfly Dance
What would a man do to win over the woman of his dreams? What if there was a way, an ancient and mystical method sent down straight from the gods, to gain the undying devotion of any woman on Earth? Mijin. Just a minute. Stay still for just a minute. I don’t want to have … [Read More]