Review: “Our Happy Time” by Gong Ji-young (공지영)

If you don’t like a stacked deck, you may not like Gong Ji-Young’s Our Happy Time. While Gong does write a cracking tale, she piles freighted detail upon freighted detail, and horrible history upon horrible history, to ensure that the reader has no emotional wiggle-room with her characters. With that said, it’s a compelling read…

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Barry and Charly’s “Big Time Korean Podcast!”: The Jimoondang/LTI Korea Collection and Hwang Sun-mi’s “The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly.

Once again (ok, for the second time) Charles Montgomery from right here at KTLIT and Barry Welsh from SeoulABC get together to discuss Korean literature, particularly the Jimoondang/LTI Korea Collection of books and Hwang Sun–mi’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. For those who might be interested in particular aspects of the video, a…

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Review: Wayfarer: New Fiction By Korean Women

Wayfarer: New Fiction by Korean Women is edited by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, which is typically an indication that the contents will be of high value and quality. The introduction, which is uncredited but sounds like the work of the Fultons, is a quick gloss of the historical position that women writers inhabited; to put…