Quarterly Changbi #212 (Summer 2026)
Table of Contents
From the Spirit and the Power of the People / Song Jong-won
Feature: How the Past Interrogates the Present
Joung Ju A / The Past That Begins Anew: A Heart Speaking of Sabuk
Han Young-in / Fiction That Tends to Memory
Yoon Eun-seong / Beyond Historical Violence: Ecological Community in the Poetry of Heo Su-kyung and Cho Jung
Poetry: Selection of Emerging Poets
Kang Woo Geun / The Day I Almost Stepped on an Ant by Mistake
Kang Ji Yi / These Days, Mr. Colonel Sanders Is Hard To Spot
Kim Youth / Patriotism
Kim Jin Seon / Family Business
Kim Hye-yeon / Corridor
Nam HyunJi / New
Park Jiil / A Picnic That Will Not Leave Me the Least Bit Dizzy
Shin Joon-Young / Aesthetics of Relationships
Ryeo Se Sil / Your Female Daddy
Im Yu Young / Confession
Jang Hye-ryung / Sudoku of Silence
Ju Min-hyeon / Brush and Blade
Fiction
Geun Hee / When Life Still Remains
Kim Sora / Our Way Home from Work
Pyun Hye Young / As the Saying Goes
Kim Kitae / Regression (Novella)
Moon Hee Joung, Lee Nam Ju, Lee Hae-young, Jeong Hyungon / The U.S. Wars and Emerging International Solidarity
Author Interview: Ko Sunkyung, Love on the Rocks
Cho Daehan / Three Thousand Confessions
Kim Hyeongsoo / The Exit from Modernity, Illuminated by the Spirit of Realism: Paik Nak-chung’s D.H. Lawrence, a Western Gaebyeok Thinker
Jin Tae-won / The Significance of the Publication of Biographical Dictionary of Anti-Constitutional Actors
On the Scene
Paik Young-Gyung, Ju Hyun Woo / A Year After the Gyeongbuk Wildfire: The Meaning of Restoration and Recovery (Dispatches from the Field #1)
Baik Ji-yeon / The Universe Held in Story: Hwang Sok-yong’s Novel Halmae (Korean Literature and the Possibilities of K Thought #2)
Essay
Baek Ohn yu / Attitude Toward Forgetting (What Took Care of My Life #6)
Literary Focus: Noteworthy New Books of This Season
Hwang Sa rang / If What Remains with Us Is the Memory Called Poetry
Min Ga Kyoung / Faces Left Behind, Faces That Remain
Book Reviews
Ham Min Bok / Shin Kyung-rim, The Mountain Tells Me To Become a Wildflower
An Seung-taek / Ha Seung-woo, For the Mugunghwa Train
Koo Kab-woo / Suh Jae-jung, The Age of Monsters
Choi Sihyun / Lee So-youn, Suspiciously Perfect Wedding
Lee Il-young / Cho Hi-yeon, The Age of the Far Right Is Coming
Lee Haram / Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell, The Innovation Delusion
Jun EuyRyung / Kim Sang-min et. al., Non-Human
Kang Unkyo / Octavia E. Butler, Dawn
New Books by Changbi
Readers’ Voices