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The Quarterly Changbi 201 (Autumn 2023)


Editorial

Who Is the True Cartel in Our Society? / Baik Ji-yeon

 

Feature: The Narrative Called Korea

Lee Nam Ju / How Should We Think About Korea in the Current Era of a Civilizational Transformation?

Kang Kyung-seok / The Possibility of an Incomplete Literary History: What Recent Skepticism About “Literariness” Hides and Reveals

Jung Heon-mok / Changing Korean Studies: Beyond Essentialism

Baik Ji-woon / Reconsidering Theories About East Asia in the Era of Hegemonic Competition Between the US and China

 

Dialogue

Nam Sang-wook, Song Kiho, Oh Eunjeong, Lee Heon-seok / The Fukushima Problem: From the Nuclear Powerplant Disaster to Contaminated Water Release

 

Poetry

Kim Gae mi / Girls in the Cornfields

Kim Seok-young / Scientific Interest

Kim Sun-woo / Maitreya’s Solitude

Min Gu / Happiness

Son Cecilia / A Grain of Revolution

Lee Dong Woo / Ganggangsulae Without a Sulae

Lee Seki / Subtropical Plants

Lee Eun gyu / Summer, Sillim

Jang I-ji / Repetition

Jin Eu-young / Just Like…

Choi Jeong Jin / A Stone Tower That Only I Know

Hwang Yuwon / No Language

Lee Hayun / A Coat and Light (winner of the Changbi Award for Young Writers in the Poetry category)

Kim Si-jong / Being Dried Up (A Special Contribution)

 

Fiction

Kim Keum Hee / A Report on the Grand Greenhouse (Installment #2)

Kim Kitae / Liberal Education

Kim Ji-yeon / Toward the Offing

Jeon Jee Young / Uncanny Valley

Joo Youngha / Iowa

 

Article

Suh Jae-jung / Korean Peninsula in Crisis, Northeast Asia on Edge: The “Preemptive Strike” Doctrine Gaining Power and the Possibility of War

 

Focus on Author            Hyun Ki Young, This Is Jeju Island

Paik Young-Gyung / The Depth of Everyday Life Being Returned to the Mourning Community

 

Literary Criticism

Lim Hong-Bae / Portrait of a Socialist Next Door: Jeong Ji A’s My Father’s Liberation Diary

Kwon YoungBin / Clearer Than Death, Surer Than Criticism: Gu’s Proof, An Anti-Normative Way of Condolence, by Choi Jin Young (winner of the Changbi Award for Young Writers in the Criticism category)

 

Literary Focus

Kim Young-hee / Others’ Light and “My” Victory

Jung Ju-a / Solitary Struggles for Ordinary Daily Lives

Song Jong-won / Politics of Literature Underway Beyond Dividing Lines

 

On the Scene

Choi Sihyun / Care as Value and Care as Labor: Interview with Housework and Care Union President Choi Young Mi

 

Essays

Heo Eun / In Memory of Mr. Kang Man-gil, a Pacificist

Lee Won-young / The Place Where Penguins and Seals Swim and Where You Don’t Need a Wallet (Where I Live #7)

 

Book Reviews

Kang Soohwan / Park Taewoong, Park Taewoong’s Lecture on AI

Kim Dongsoo / Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews

Cho Su-mi / Park Edhi, I Could Become a Cheerful Grandmother, If Lucky

Cho Hyung Keun / Byun Jaewon, Civil Disobedience by the Disabled

Shin Jisoo / Ikegami Eiko, Autism Spectrum and Hyperworld

Yun Youngsang / Lee Kwang-ho, Roh Hoe-chan, A Critical Biography

Kim Dasol / Ha Jae-young, I Never Had Mother

Kim Ki-heung / Kevin Laland, Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony

Sung Ki Sook / Lee Ae-ju, Lee Ae-ju’s Thoughts on Dance

 

Announcement of the Winners of the 41st Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature

 

Announcement of the Winners of the 2023 Changbi Awards for Young Writers

 

Announcement of the Shortlist for the 38th Manhae Prize in Literature

 

New Books by Changbi

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