I met with noted author Shin Kyung-sook, writer of the tremendously successful Please Look After Mom (엄마를 부탁해), at the cafe at the Kim Jong-yeong Museum (thoroughly beautiful, by the way), located in Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu. I was with Dylan Goldsby a photographer who was taking pictures for an upcoming segment on Ms. Shin in 10…
My lovely wife and I leave for Thailand tomorrow, so I’m in a bit of a planning frenzy. However, I had a wildly entertaining meeting with Kim Young-ha last night. Without being too detailed, I’d say that everything cool about his writing is reflected in his public mien. I have an hour or two of…
So, on Thursday night I had to duck out of a soju-drenched Division meeting to head over the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. HUFS had heard, somewhere, about a foreigner who was interested in Korean literature, and graciously invited me to a talk that Yi was to give. I would, of course, also double the…