The Quarterly Changbi 188, Summer 2020
Editorial
We Cannot Go Back—So Let’s Work For a Better Future / Paik Young-Gyung
Feature: What Is Our Literature Struggling With Now?
Kang Kyung-seok / Re-Organizing Revolution
Shin Sat-byul / Political Efficacy of a Narrative of Inequality: Toward a “Caring Democracy”
Cho Daehan / Poets Wrestling With Overlapping Worlds
Dialogue
Articles
Lee Nam Ju, Im Jong-Seok / Road To Reactivating the Korean Peace Process: A Conversation with Former Blue House Chief of Staff Im Jong-Seok in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the June 15th South-North Joint Declaration
Kim Jong-yup / Candlelight Revolution, the 21st General Election, and the 1987 System
Kim Sora / Digital Sexual Assault: Approaching a Turning Point, Beyond Anger
Peter C. Baker / “We Can’t Go Back to Normal”: How Will the Coronavirus Change the World?
On the Scene
Kim Gwan-uk / The Call Center: A Boundary That Viruses Can Cross—But Human Rights Do Not
Choi Eun Kyung / Will the Current Pandemic Period Lead To a New Healthcare System?
Poetry
Kang Sung-eun / A House Where I Live Alone
Kim Myeong-cheol / Would The Flower, Would the Cat,
Kim So-hyeong / Feeling Like You Can’t Live Unless You Die
Bak Gyeong-hui / Stepping Into the Shadow of the Mountain
Bak Eun-yeong / Would the Seagull Know?
Seong Dong-hyeok / Ballet
Shin Daechul / Roads Upon Roads
Sin Dong-ok / Erewhon
An Heon-mi / In Search of the First Apricot Bloom
Yi Hui-hyeong / Makchang
Jeong Jae-yul / A Blessed House
Jeong Jaehak / A Snail Bigger Than My Palm
Essays
Hwang Jung-eun / Diary
Focus on Author Baek Mu-san, On a Morning in These Pathetic Times
Hwang Gyu-gwan / Ten Books of Poetry, Ten Plateaus
Literary Focus
Baek Minsuk, Yang Kyung Eon, Yang Yun-eui / Noteworthy Books of This Season
Book Reviews
Kim Sung-Kyung / Chung Byung Ho, A Country of Suffering and Laughter
Kim Young Soon / Molly Michelmore, Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Kim Do-kyun / Kim Myeongsoo, A Society Imprisoned in “My House”
Yoon Jikwan / Fredric Jameson, A Singular Modernity
Seo Bo Kyeong / Kim Young-ok et al, Bodies at 3 A.M.
Choi Hyungsub / David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Jang Seokju / Ko Hyeong-ryeol, Zhuangzi: Essays
Kim Yeung-Ah / Naomi Alderman, The Power
Yang Jae-hun / Lee Sung-hyuk, The Poetic and the Political
Lee Hyun Il / Park Hye-Sook, Chinese Poetry Written by Koreans: A Genre-Based Approach
Yoo Im-ha / Kim Seong-su, North Korean Literature Revisited by Media
Announcement of the Winner of the 13th Changbi Prize in the Novel
Readers’ Voices