An amusing interview with Kim Young-ha

This is from KBS global, and it claims to be only a few days old, but it still has him living in Seoul and not Brooklyn and his own website seems pretty clear he’s in the US…

The interview is primarily interesting because the interviewer is laying it on with the proverbial trowel, and the translation is so .. uh… idiosyncratic …. that it is in that weird spot between hysterical and painful:

As a writer who secured his world view, I will prove that the universal matter is the most world-beater. I will reward my readers with a new novel based on a profound and fresh technique without relying on the advantage of the Orientalism.

Sure buddy, now put down the soju bottle and get some rest. πŸ˜‰