A nice article in the JoongAng daily, beginning with the excellent movie Wandeugi (Punch in English) which of course came from a juvenile novel: One of the first works of literature to deal with the immigrant experience was the novel “Wandeugi” (2008) by Kim Ryeo-ryeong, which describes the obstacles faced by a multiethnic family in…
After accidentally mis-spelling his name, it is here, and looks like this: Cho Hae-il From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cho Hae-il Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1941-present This is a Korean name; the family name is Cho. Cho Hae-il (born Haeryong) (Hangul: 조) is a South Korean writer. Life Cho Hae-il was born…
Cho Hae-il’s novella America is initially deceiving. Given its title, one might expect it to be an emigration story, but in fact it is anything but. Instead, it is the story of one man’s return to his home in Korea. That ‘return’ in fact, is from his mandatory military service and his own alienation, some…