KOREAN LITERATURE CHAPTER SIX: TRANSITION – ENLIGHTENMENT FICTION AND THE ‘NEW’ NOVEL
Korean Fiction Chapters: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4/ 5 / In 1877 King Gojong and Queen Min sent a group of Koreans to Japan to examine its technological and social changes. What they found amazed them, as while Korea had once considered itself the modern hub of Asia, Japan had modernized far beyond Korean expectations or experience. While Queen…