KLN | Korean Literature Now

The 10th Anniversary Special is Out Now!

We're finally revealing our cover for KLN Special Edition! This nameless character (we'll come up with a perfect name for it soon) enjoys reading the ...
FICTION While They Laughed

My nephew was a new high schooler with 129 numbers in his contacts list. “Why don’t you know more people, Uncle?” I told him that the first of every J...
POETRY Higher than the Heart & Other Poems [+ Web Exclusive]

Higher than the Heart I was soaking my body in the tub when the electricity went out. Outside, it rains and rustedsadnesses f...
FICTION Traces of Summer

Our lives just happen by chance. In fact, I wonder if words like “fate” or “destiny” are pretty useless. Everything that’s happened since the Big Bang...
POETRY The Air Club & Other Poems

The Air Club When Kim Jin-suk broke the Guinness record with his hundreds of days of a high-altitude sit-in on crane number 85 ...
FICTION Raptors Upstream

I left Jehee long ago. I don’t remember what we said as I was leaving. Probably because we said little. Those days, if I had to meet him at his home, ...