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The story of Korean fiction: Proud tradition, humble present

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Article
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20151023000934
Journal
The Korea Herald
Issued Date
October 23, 2015
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
SOUTH KOREA
City
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Book
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Writer
Kim Jin-myung , Shin Kyung-sook

About the Author

  • Kim Jin-myung
  • Birth : 1958 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Jin-myung
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김진명
  • ISNI : 0000000086920422
  • Works : 7
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  • English(English)

If you’re reading a novel from Korea’s best-seller lists now, chances are that it’s not written by a local author. In this country, with a rising global cultural profile and an ambition to rise even further, fiction, the ultimate art of storytelling, is fading. Or more precisely, the serious, high-caliber, literary fiction that Koreans refer to as “pure” literature is fading. Local readers’ appetite for homegrown novels is dwindling amid a fundamental decline in an interest in books, while writers are failing to produce stories that re-engage them, experts say. Signs of a crisis are hard to miss, starting from the best-seller lists.   Source: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20151023000934

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    すばる
    Kyung-Sook Shin et al / 신경숙 et al / 1998
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    单人房
    Kyung-Sook Shin et al / 신경숙 / 2006

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