The Quarterly Changbi #209 (Fall 2025)
Editorial
In Order To Write the Story of a New Era / Baik Ji-yeon
Feature: The 2025 System and a New Korean Peninsula
Reimagining the Inter-Korean Relationship in a Time of a Transformative Middle Way / Jeong Hyungon
Forging Peace in East Asia Beyond the Chains of Alliance / Jung Wooksik
Balanced Regional Development and Inter-Korean Cooperation from the Perspective of Borderlands / Ham Myeongjun
Poetry
Kwak Jae-gu / Eight Eels
Kim Seung-hee / Phantom Pregnancy
Kim Yurim / The Donkey
Kim Yigang / Dar’s House, Summer, Children
Shin Hae-wook / The Library of Babel
Yoo Suyeon / The Power of Taking Action
Lee Sanha / Class Theory
Lee Hyunseung / A Dream of Getting Married
Jong Dayun / Tenant
Jeong Jaehak / Dream of a Former Life
Jo Onyun/ Ghost Fiction
Bang SungIn / Ghost of the Grass (the winner of the Changbi Award for Young Writers in the Poetry category)
Fiction
Baik Sou Linne / Suffused With Gentle White Light (Installment #1)
Gong Sun-ok / Let’s Stay Alive and Meet Again
Kim Mella / No Matter What
Cho Hae-jin / A Night Being Pieced Together
Kim Sora / A Low-Flying Child (the winner of the Changbi Award for Young Writers in the Fiction category)
Dialogue
Byun Jiwon, Lee Wook-yon, Cha Taegeun, Choi Pilsoo / How Should We View a Changing China?
Baik Young Seo / The Principle of Three Equalities: A Transformative Middle Way Perspective (Searching for K-Discourse 7)
Kim Hyun-woo / In an Era of Climate Collapse: Toward More Abundant and Deeper Narrative Approaches
Baik Ji-woon / The Legacy of Bandung: On the 70th Anniversary of the Bandung Conference
Park Jaewoo / Viewing My Exploration of Cultural Heritage Through an East Asian Lens
Focus on Author
Hwang Gyu-gwan, Walking Backward
Park Seung Min / The Poet as a Questioner of the Future
Han Young-in / Moving Away from the ‘Real’: on Sung Haena’s “Smooth” and “Honmono”
Park Dong-uk / Poems That Re-Examine What It Means to Be Human
Lee Mijin / On the Realism of Two Internationals: The Reality of ‘We’ (the winner of the Changbi Award for Young Writers in the Criticism category)
Literary Focus: Noteworthy New Works of This Season
Jung Woo-young / Poems of Discovery Stirred by Warmth
Ryu Suyun / A Time To Ask About Our Well-Being
On the Scene
Adam Shatz / The World Since 7 October (translated by Lee Jong-Im)
Essay
Ko Suri / Grandmother’s Sea, Mother’s Quilt (What Took Care of My Life #3)
Book Reviews
Kim Naehoon / Kim Jeong-hwan, Body, Spectacle, Democracy
Lim Kyoungbin / Hwang Jungeun, Little Diary
Seok Minju/ Choe Na-hyeon et. al., Erase Us a Hundred Times, We Won’t Disappear
Hong Haeddem / Baek Min Jung, Jeong Yak-yong’s Political Thought
Kim Kwanwook / Annemarie Mol, The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice
Koo Giyeon / Helean Cobban and Rami G. Khouri, Understanding Hamas
Lee Sunwoo / Monica Kim, Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War
Seo Jungeun / Kim Anna, Story of a Child
Announcement of the Winners of the 43rd Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature
Announcement of the Winners of the 2025 Changbi Awards for Young Writers
Announcement of the Shortlist for the 40th Manhae Prize in Literature
New Books by Changbi
Readers’ Voices