Recently on LTI Korea’s _list Magazine: Hwang Sok-yong and more

A bit tardy on this perhaps, but the good folks at LTI Korea have published their March edition online and it is full of fun reading for fans of Korean, or any, literature. The Feature Story is on Korean author Hwang Sok-yong, titled An Evolving Realist, Dreaming of the Unity of Life and Literature. There is a…

Review: Massacres and Ghosts – Hwang Sok-yong’s (황석영) “The Guest” (손님)

“Show me one soul that wasn’t to blame!” With the slam of a hand and a short sentence, a character in Hwang Sok-Yong’s The Guest sums up one of the bloodiest chapters in modern Korean history, and a moment that Hwang revisits decades later. That moment is a series of atrocities in Northern Korea that,…