Meet Cheon Myeong-Kwan, Hwang Jung-Eun, and Yun I-Hyeong; Three awesome modern Korean writers

September 12 at 4pm, Haechi Hall, Myeongdong: Korean Modern Literature Meet three of the brightest young imaginative voices in Korean fiction Cheon Myeong-Kwan, Hwang Jung-Eun, and Yun I-Hyeong on September 12th in Seoul in English AND Korean! Courtesy of Asia Publishers and Seoul ABC. Authors will read, books will be sold, half of the presentation…

Kong’s Garden (양의 미개) by Hwang Jung-eun (황정은)

Hwang Jung-Eun’s Kong’s Garden (Originally titled “Yang’s Future”, a title making a play on the meaning of the future of an unmarried woman and one that gives a glimpse at the often random titling of translations), is a glimpse of the post-modern world of the worker. A future in which the single female narrator, who…