The Quarterly Changbi #213 (Fall 2026)
Table of Contents
Why Korean Thought Now? / Kang Kyung-seok
Feature: Changes in the World Order and Korea’s Path
A Changed World: How Should Korea Reform Its Foreign Policy and Security? / Kim Yeon-chul
The Changing ROK–US Alliance and the Transfer of Wartime Operational Control / Kim Jung-sub
Trump’s Iran War / Lee Heajeong
Poetry: Selected Poems on Peace
Kim Ki-taek / Andrii and Alina
Kim Joong-il / Sinkhole
Ra Hee Duk / My Travel with Alaa Alqaisi
Ma Yunji / Final Semester of High School
Moon Dong Man / What Remains
OH SANHA / You Will Feel Nothing
Yoon Yoona / Banana Leaves
Yi Geun Hwa / When You Smile with a Different Face
Jeong Hyun-jong / One Moonlit Night
JO HAE JU / Invisible Water
Choi Ji Eun / A Good Story
Hwang Gyu-gwan / One Spring Day
So-hyeon / Heaven (winner of the Changbi Award for Young Writers in the Poetry category)
Fiction
Kim Yu-dam / My New York Guy (Novella)
Kim Sum / Who Is Crossing the River?
Park Solmay / Although There’s Water, He’s Alone
Kwon Inae / Yun-gang’s Traces (winner of the Changbi Award for Young Writers in the Fiction category)
Yoon Hong Sik, Jang Ji-yeon, Cha Ji-ho, Choi Sihyun / The Age of AI: We Need a New Welfare System
Interview With an Author: Cheon Myeong Kwan, Accordion
Min Ga Kyoung / A Person Who Speaks To Ghosts
Article
Park Hee-byeong / Hong Dae yong’s Thought: Intellectual Struggle and Innovative Spirit
Paik Young-Gyung, Ju Hyun Woo / What Does “Development” Mean for an Island? (Dispatches from the Field #2)
Yang Yun-eui / A Body That Is Both an Ending and a Beginning
Essay
Nam Jongyoung / The Real Story of the Polar Bear (What Took Care of My Life #7)
Literary Focus: Noteworthy New Works of This Season
Kim Joon hyun / People Who Live Through the Language of the Body
Kim Dasol / A Future Beginning at the Place of Disappearance
Book Reviews
Lee Jungchul / Joel S. Wit, Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea
Yi Jungjin / Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Baek Min Jung / Division of Modern Korean Philosophy, the Korean Association for Studies of Philosophical Thought, Donghak, Again
Lee Hana / Cho Eun-ju, What It Means to Belong to the World
Kim Hee-won / Kwon Tae-seon, No Path Opens Without Struggle
Kim Jung-hwan / Cynthia Fleury, Here Lies Bitterness: Healing From Resentment
Jun Bum Sun / Park Jong-ki, The Goryeo We Never Fully Knew
Announcement of the Winners of the 44th Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature
Announcement of the Winner of the 26th Changbi Awards for Young Writers in the Poetry category
Announcement of the Winner of the 26th Changbi Awards for Young Writers in the Fiction category
Announcement of the Shortlist for the 41st Manhae Prize in Literature
New Books by Changbi
Readers’ Voices