It’s the 1930s. In colonial Korea, economic development brings factories and work to Incheon, Seoul and other centres of population, while in the countryside the semi-feudal lifestyle continues. The local yangban plots which local lass to deflower next, and keeps the local rent-farmers as much in debt to him as he can. We are introduced … [Read More]
Translator: Samuel Perry
Selected translations
- Anthology: A Century of Queer Korean Fiction ed Samuel Perry, Modern Language Association 2023
- Anthology: Zainichi Literature ed John Lie, Univ of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies 2018
- Anthology: Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire ed Theodore Hughes, Jae-yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee, Sang-kyung Lee, Cornell East Asia Series 2013
- Kang Kyong-ae: From Wonso Pond tr Samuel Perry, Feminist Press 2009