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
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
Readers’ Voices