The Quarterly Changbi #211 (Spring 2026)
Table of Contents
A New Resolve for an Era of Transformation and Creation / Lee Nam Ju
Feature: The Achievements and Future of K-Discourse
Lee Nam Ju / The Politics of the Division System and the Horizon of K-Democracy
Baek Min Jung / The Middle Way Revisited: Confucian Thought and Donghak
Park Yeo Sun / K-Culture as an Embodiment of the “Theory of Human Liberation”
Poetry (Selected Poems by Emerging Poets)
Kim Bona / A 67-Kilogram Feather
Kim Sang Hee / Duna
Woo Eun Ju / ASMR 1
Yoo Seonhye / The Novel I Want
Yoo Suyeon / A Feather-Like Person
Lee Yong-hoon / Pyeongtaek Port Huigok District
Lee Jacket / Crying
Lee Hayun / Where Lights Converge
Im Jua / Wet Snow
Jo Seong-lae / Naju
Jo Onyun / A Friend of Paper
Han Yeojin / Embroidery
Fiction
Kim Ae-ran / Cupboard
Quan Chunhua / Let’s Meet at Daerim Station, Exit 12
Jeong Ji A / Beading and Dripping
Jeon Sungtae / A Person Walking
Essay
Park Joon / Immense, Ignorance (What Took Care of My Life #5)
Focus on Author
Jeong Yi Hyun, No-People Zone
Sung Hyeryoung / The Warmest Pessimist
Kang Kyung-seok / Clues to a New Civilization: Reinterpreting the Thoughts of Na Hye seok and Yeom Sang seop (Korean Literature and the Possibilities of K Thought #1)
Sung Hyunah / Authenticity as Proxy Materiality and the Dilemma of Identity
Park Nuri, Paik Young-Gyung, Jeon Jun, Ju Hyun Woo / The Sites of Our Time: What Turns a Region into a ‘Crisis’?
Yoo Jeong Ae / Transnational Far Right Networks and Korean Democracy
Literary Focus: Noteworthy New Books of This Season
Lee Mijin / Hearts Waiting for Spring
Book Reviews
Song Jong-won/ Cho Hyo-Je, The Courage to Live Differently on a Burning Planet
Yoon Su Jin / Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness
Kim Yu-dam / Kim Jung-mi, Kim Mi-ja, Reduced to ‘Only Mother’
Kim Hyeongsoo / Gu Jung-Seo, The Power of Culture, the Human Path
Lee Jeong Hoon / Yoon Yu-Gyeong, Celebrating Korea’s Regional Media
Lee Young Ho / Han Hyung-Jo, The Two Analects
Kim Myung-hwan / Michael S. Chwe, Jane Austen, Game Theorist
No Seung Mi / Warwick Anderson, The Myth of Western Science
Announcement of the Winners of 24th Daesan Literary Awards for College Students
New Books by Changbi
Readers’ Voices