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INTERVIEWS [A Conversation with Kang Young-sook] On Writing against a Ticking Clock

Hannah Michell: We’ve known each other for many years now but I’ve never asked you how you began writing. Was it something that yo...
FICTION The Writing Club

Two Hares “What the fuck? Look at your hair,” R said. Her loud, clear, and sarcastic voice sounded the same as usual. “You look like you’ve just de...
INTERVIEWS [A Conversation with Lee Kiho] Straight Outta Gangwon

Ed Park: It was nice to meet you when I was in Seoul a few years ago. I was very taken with your first novel, translated as At Lea...
FICTION A World History of Second Sons

Listen. Here’s a story from the era of General Chun Doo-hwan—one of the more preposterous dictators to have ruled our land. Thirty odd...
FEATURES Women in Korean Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender

Gender is a social construct, not tied to biological sex, with its defining characteristics fluid and ever-changing. It materializes in all cases of s...