(NOTE: You can also follow KTLIT on Twitter @ktlit) TONGUE by Jo Kyung Ran (the author’s preferred Romanization), begins with a broken relationship; a 7 years’ relationship ends and the narrator loses her connection to food, up to and including her sense of taste. Unusually, however, for Korean fiction, it does not have any scenes in…
It is here, and it looks a little bit like this (and it is just amazing how little English information is out there on Jo!): JO Kyung-ran Born December 0, 1969 (age 42) Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1969-present This is a Korean name; the family name is “조”. Jo Kyung-ran (born 1969) (Hangul:…
The day two event I chose to attend was Globalizing World and the Human Community. The first speaker was Bok Geo-il, who spoke on Language and Writing in the Age of Globalization (this was one of the papers at this conference I edited). Bok is a novelist, critic, and representative of the Future Culture Forum.…