Some time ago I watched Park Chong-wan’s 1995 historical mystery movie Eternal Empire on DVD, having purchased it on the strength of its inclusion in Darcy Paquet’s list of top films from the 1990s. I must have been tired when I watched it: I simply have no recollection of what I thought of it, though … [Read More]
Publisher: Eastbridge
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Selected publications
- Choong Nam Kim: The Korean Presidents: Leadership for Nation Building 2007
- Ham Se-dok: Plays of Colonial Korea tr Jinhee Kim 2007
- Hyun Kil-un: Dead Silence tr John Michael McGuire, Kang Hyunsook, Lee Jin-ah 2006
- Pak Tu-jin: River of Life, River of Hope tr Edward W Poitras 2005
- Choe Cheong-hui: The Cry of the Harp: Selected Works of Choe Chung-Hui tr Genell Y Poitras 2005
- Kim Mi-hyun, Lee Kwangho, Lee Namho, Wu Chan Je: Twentieth Century Korean Literature tr Youngju Ryu 2005
- Yi Ho-cheol: Panmunjom and Other Stories tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Theodore Hughes 2004
- Yi Ho-cheol: Southerners, Northerners tr Andrew Killick, Sukyeon Cho 2004
- Donald N Clark: Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience, 1900–1950 2003
- Anthology: The Voice of the Governor General and Other Stories of Modern Korea ed Kim Uchang, Chun Kyung-ja 2002
- Yi In-hwa: Everlasting Empire tr Yu Young-nan 2002
A look back at our 2020 reading diary
Like many readers, we started the year with good intention of blitzing through the pile of new titles that were promised for the coming months, as well as making inroads into the backlog. And we genuinely got off to a good start with a string of fun K-thrillers, some of them new, some not: The … [Read More]
Review: Hyun Kil-un – Dead Silence and other stories of the Jeju Massacre
Translated by Hyunsook Kang, Jin-ah Lee and John Michael McGuire Eastbridge Books, 2006, 206 pages On a trip to Jeju Island a few years ago I remember having a slightly tipsy interaction with a Jeju-based journalist and intellectual, as we staggered from 2cha to 3cha via a liquor store. “I don’t like America”, he solemnly … [Read More]