By Dongmi Hwang Sun-i Samch’on (Aunt Suni – 순이삼촌) – is a work of historical fiction. Hyun Gi-young (현기영) writes with the clear purpose of exposing and validating hidden events that happened on the island of Jeju in the southernmost part of Korea. The story opens with a man returning home for the first time…
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a new edition of The Land of the Banished” which was previously published in the Portable Library of Korean Fiction. A review of that version can be found here. It was also published as the title story of the excellent collection Land Of Exile) What makes Jo Jung-rae’s (if you can…
Ch’oe Yun’s short story The Last of Hanak’o is published bi-lingually by Asia Publishers. Ch’oe has been described by critics as an author who focuses on the internal state of her characters rather than the external events that may have shaped them. The original Korean title “하나코는 없다” (literally Hanak’o isn’t here) might some insight into…
Bi-lingual edition published by ASIA Publishers Translated by Jennifer M. Lee (NOTE: This is not the same edition of The Wounded previously published in the Portable Library of Korean Literature and reviewed by KTLIT here.) Reviewed by Dongmi Hwang The Wounded, originally titled “The Cripple and the Fool”, was published in 1966 to great literary…
Here at KTLIT we are happy to welcome a new contributor aboard, Dongmi Hwang. Dongmi is, among other things, bilingual and bi-cultural, and as an introduction, we thought we do some side-by-side reviews, so that readers could get dual perspectives on the works we review here. Particularly interesting to me was the different ways we…