朝日新聞デジタル / December 26, 2020

押切もえ（モデル・文筆家） ①シンプルなクローゼットが地球を救う ファッション革命実践ガイド（エリザベス・Ｌ・クライン著、加藤輝美訳、春秋社・１９８０円） ②隣人Ｘ（パリュスあや子著、講談社・１５４０円） ③百年と一日（柴崎友香著、筑摩書房・１５４０円） 生活の変化が多かった今年、今向き合うべきことについて考えた３冊。ファッション業界でもサステイナブル（持続可能な）であることが注目されているが、①を読んで、ファッション産業がどれほど地球環境に悪影響を及ぼしているかを知った。ＳＤＧｓの意識が高まり、環境に配慮する動きが多方面から生まれているが、今後もさらに、何かを購入する時はよく考え、長く愛していきたい。

Libertad Digital / May 14, 2020

Desde hace unos años, Corea de Sur es un imán cultural muy potente para el llamado gran público. Exportan bandas de K-pop que suman legiones de seguidores en todo el mundo, devotos de un estilo de vida que supera ampliamente los límites musicales. Sus grupos –encabezados por bandas como BTS– alcanzan lo más alto de las listas de ventas internacionales. Después llegó Parásitos, la comedia negra de Bong Joon-ho que tocó suelo en Hollywood como un huracán e hizo historia en los Oscar con cuatro galardones, incluidos los de Mejor Película –la primera vez que se lo lleva una cinta de lengua no inglesa– y Mejor Director. Este boom atrajo las miradas hacia el país asiático, que ha sabido aprovechar el tirón para presentar al mundo a sus escritores.

ニフティニュース / October 19, 2020

いつも時代を作るのは人間だけど、思ったように時代は作れない。相反する「優しい」「暴力」という言葉がこれ以上ないほどふさわしい時代を背景に描く短編集。

keulmadang / June 12, 2009

A la suite d’une vertigineuse urbanisation et d’une modernisation sans précédent, la Corée a montré deux visages radicalement différents. Le premier est celui d’un développement efficace et rayonnant, le second, celui d’une modernisation insensible et dangereuse. Au 21e siècle, quel regard portera la nouvelle génération d’écrivains coréens sur la ville ?

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Between the Inside and the Outside Novelist Jeong Yi Hyun Author's Profile By Cha Mi-ryeong on Oct 19 2014 13:34:02 Vol.16 Summer 2012 Cha Mi-ryeong: It is so nice to see you. It’s been 10 years since you made your debut and you continue to publish. When did you first start writing fiction? Jeong Yi Hyun: It’s been 10 years since my literary debut, but I completed my first work of fiction not long before 2002. Several years after I graduated from college, I returned to school and studied creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. That’s when I started studying literature and writing seriously. Back then I wanted to be a poet. CM: That is surprising. I thought you were a born novelist. 

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Confessions of a Knock-off apartment Kid from the 1980s   By Jeong Yi Hyun on Nov 05 2014 04:13:30 Vol.21 Autumn 2013 In this personal essay, writer Jeong Yi Hyun reflects on her childhood fascination with modern apartment living. I am not a “natural born apartment kid.” It would, rather, be more appropriate to say that I spent my childhood hankering for the life of an apartment kid. My first memory of the space called an apartment starts in the early 1980s. Around that time my maternal grandparents moved to the ninth floor of the newly-built Samho Apartment in Bangbae-dong. It was when the real estate development boom in Gangnam had just begun. Any information on which course my grandparents took to sell their traditional style house in Pilwoon-dong, Jongno-gu, and start their life in the apartment, has not stayed with me. There is a better chance that I never had such a memory. For there exists no adult who lets a child, not yet age 10, in on those details – neither then, nor now.

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From Politics to Ethics: Jung Yi Hyun, Kim Ae-ran, Jeon Sungtae, and Kim Yeonsu   By Kim Hyoung-joong on Nov 01 2014 00:24:19 Vol.12 Summer 2011 The new generation of writers tackles the most pressing concerns of their time, pursuing uncomfortable, but necessary questions.   The fall of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s had a great influence on Korean literature, contributing to a decline of the political. Partly because of the fall of the Soviet Union and the decline of Marxism, a great part of the progressive energy that governed Korean literature in the 80s split into sub-themes such as the inner world, everyday life, femininity, and culture. The economic crisis of 1997 marked another watershed, a point many critics tacitly agree on. After the economic crisis, Korean society was drawn into the demands of globalization and a free-for-all market economy that gave into the demands of global financial trends. This period marks the beginning of a new millennium literature in Korea.

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Love of the Missing: Modern Korean Fiction by Women, 1990-2010   By Hur Yoonjin on Nov 11 2014 01:10:01 Vol.12 Summer 2011 As Korean women writers move beyond the label of “women” and are recognized as “writers,” a new aesthetic and modern concerns emerge.     Prior to the Enlightenment Period, Hangeul was often disdained in Korea— or more precisely, the Joseon era as it was known then—as “female writing,” meaning it was a writing system befitting only women. During the Enlightenment, however, Hanmun (classical Chinese), which had played the same role as Latin in East Asia, was replaced by the Korean vernacular, and Hangeul, which had previously been used only by the lower classes, naturally became the official writing system. In the hundred or so years since, women who used to be denigrated as yoryu (“female”) have distinguished themselves with their masterful use of artistic language. As modern education for women took deep root in Korean society, women became active beneficiaries of knowledge transmitted through language and, as a result, their self-awakening began to materialize. By the 1990s, women, no longer a minority in need of special protection, had emerged the mainstream in literature. Even in literary criticism, once the exclusive domain of men, women critics—who understood the value of women’s literature and could subject it to proper critical examination— became actively involved. The literature of women writers received such high praise and captured the attention of both the market and critics that the 1990s could even be called the decade of women writers.      There, a Petal Silently Falls Ch'oe Yun, Moonji Publishing Co., Ltd. 1992, 312p, ISBN 9788932005782

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Love: Reinventing Romantic Love   By Kim Dongshik on Nov 09 2014 08:15:03 Special Edition 2011 Romantic love is a historical phenomenon that appeared with the advent of modernism. Today, it is common knowledge that people get married because they love one another. But it was not until after the advent of romantic love that love became a condition for marriage and the causal relationship between love and marriage was established. Before romantic love became the social norm, people were often given the freedom to pursue romantic love after they had fulfilled the duty of marriage. Romantic love, no matter how you look at it, has a commanding influence on the concept and image of love today. Romantic love was a new freedom that emerged with modernism. An affirmation of individual freedom, along with romantic love, was more widely recognized, and a new order was built on the freedom of sentiments. People started to yearn for purely romantic relationships based on emotional connections, rather than class, power, or other external factors, and in the process a new theory of subjectivity called “affective individualism” emerged, giving rise to the passionate romance -> marriage -> home sweet home model. After romantic love, individual lives became open projects that allowed room for new desires and new anxieties, and love became a fateful process of enchantment on the way to a complete life.

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The Postmodern City and Its Discontents   By Shin Hyoung Cheol on Oct 22 2014 08:36:27 Vol.1 Autumn 2008 As a result of Korea’s dizzying urbanization and modernization that have few precedents, Korea developed two radically different faces. One is an efficient and radiant modernity; the other, a heartless, dangerous modernity. In the 21st century, what shape will the city take for Korea’s next generation of writers?     Every city has two faces: that of an angel and that of a devil. These double aspects of a city result from the fact that the city is a child of modernity: simultaneously an angel and a devil. As Cho Myung-Rae clearly demonstrates in his book The Modern Society and City-theory and Reality (2002), the “city is not only a mold with which modernity is formed, but also an obvious medium that can represent modernity.” In short, the two faces of a city are those of modernity. Since urbanization and modernization in Korea have been achieved so rapidly, the mark of these two faces was carved very sharply in history. Koreans have experienced modernities of both efficiency and cruelty. What the authors have kept their eyes on was, of course, the latter. The efforts to overthrow the dangerous modernity of cruelty have advanced through the 70s and 80s and ignited the fire of revolution. During the 1980s, which can be recalled as a time of revolution, Korea had achieved democratization but failed to further the revolution. Korean literature had to accept the new frame of the so-called confusion of postmodernism. In When Adam Becomes Awake by Jang Jeong-il (once considered enfant terrible of the day), the main character Adam wakes up in a fake paradise named Seoul and sheds tears while watching the neon-lit cross of a church. In this novel, the passion and prospect, apparently the signs of the modern project of liberation, can hardly be found. This work is an apocalypse of postmodern consumer society..