The Quarterly Changbi 205 (Fall 2024)
Editorial
What Should We Do When the Government Gives Up on Governing? / Lee Nam Ju
Feature: How Shall We Create a Second Candlelight Government?
Jeon Ji-yun / Are the Media Trying To Dampen the Candlelight?
Min Byoungdug / Finding a Road to a Second Candlelight Government
Kim Bo-Hyeop / The Rebuilding Korea Party’s Proposal for the “Seventh Republic”
Poetry
Kwon Seonhui / Again, in July
Kim Gyeongmee / That Is How It Is
Ma Yunji / Small and Low-Lying Wildflowers
Park Sangsoon / Forty-Two Years Afterward, from Railroad to Bread Factory
Bae Sieun / Not Healthy But Kind People
Baek Mu-san / Don’t Inject Enthusiasm!
Ahn Do-Hyun / Bukchon
An Taewoon / Beaks
Lee Kisung / Man-Eating World
Lee Dae Hume / Z
Lee Hayun / Renovation
Han Jaebeom / I’m Justin
Kim Jin Seon / Timely (the winner of the Changbi Award for Young Writers in the Poetry category)
Fiction
Kim Byungwoon / Thoughts Afterward
Kim Seong Joong / New Husband
Park Moon Young / Green Road
Shin Kyung-sook / The Fifth Corner of the Night
Yoon Sung-hee / Korean Melon in Summer
Moon Soi / My Little Greenie (the winner of the Changbi Award for Young Writers in the Fiction category)
Articles
Paik Nak-chung / A New Phase in the State of Affairs of the Korean Peninsula and the Division System
Baik Ji-yeon / Narrative Journey Toward a “Nation-Building”: The Present State of K-Literature Seen Through Hwang Sok-yong’s Mater 2-10 (Searching for K-Discourse 3)
Dialogue
Focus on Author
Jeon Seungtae, It’s Okay Here
Jeon Gihwa / How to Embrace the Time That Cannot Be Ended
Literary Criticism
Ra Hee Duk / Numerous Songs Began With a Person’s Crying: In Memory of the Poet Shin Kyeong-rim
On the Scene
Lee Mihyeon / After the Passing of the Special Act on the Itaewon Disaster: What Should We Do Now?
Literary Focus
Kim Su-i / Three Variations on the Phrase “To Live”
Nam Sang-wook / The Direction of the Universal that “K” Is Creating
Kwon Heecheol / One Step Further Toward Contradiction
Essay
Song Jung-Q / The Meaning of “Hometown” in an Old New Town: On Being Like Gwacheon (Where I Live #11)
Book Reviews
Hwang Jung-a / C. Douglas Lummis, Radical Democracy
Chun Hyunwoo / Voices of 6411, How Much Am I Worth?
Cho Hae-jin / Lee Chul, Jangdong’s Daily Records
Kwon Kim Hyun-young / Cho Donmoon, The Ideology of Inequality
Jee Eunsook / Ueno Chizuko, Sociology of Care
So Junchol / Tak Jang Han, Abyss in Seoul
Yi Doogab / Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul
Yoon Youngsun / Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Announcement of the Winners of the 42nd Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature
Announcement of the Winners of the 2024 Changbi Awards for Young Writers
Announcement of the Shortlist for the 39th Manhae Prize in Literature
New Books by Changbi
Readers’ Voices