Tae Hung Ha’s Life of a Rainhat Poet is a “drama,” or what we would more normally call a play. And I should say from the outset that it is primarily of interest to those who are already interested in Kim Sakkat (or Kim Satgat as local Romanization has it). It is volume “IX” of…
(A version of this piece originally appeared in Yonhap News) If most people are asked to imagine early rappers, they most likely do not conjure up the picture of a Korean man, dressed in humble clothes, sheltered from the rain by no more than a straw hat, walking across Korea with a staff, finding his…
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be chosen by Arirang for a filming opportunity. One of the places I was taken was a relatively out of the way and unknown (to English speakers) literary shrine, the Kim Satkat Culture Hall. This was cool to me, because Yi Munyol wrote a book, The…