keulmadang / June 15, 2011

A 28 ans, le professeur To-in décide de mettre fin à ses jours. Pour que son geste ne soit pas vain à ses yeux, il envoie une lettre donnant les explications de son geste à un grand journal. Mais la publication de cette lettre ne venant pas, To-in repousse finalement l’acte, et se laisse envahir par la nostalgie du temps où il était étudiant et pensionnaire d’une maison où résidait une certaine Ae Gyong.

keulmadang / April 19, 2013

La Corée a connu une période de changement social lors de son industrialisation. Pendant cette période, l’individu s’est peu à peu retrouvé isolé et diminué par l’organisation de la société, les regroupements de population et les mécanismes du développement industriel.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / October 15, 2005

Die Literatur Koreas, das sich als Gastland der diesjährigen Frankfurter Buchmesse in zahlreichen Lesungen, Symposien und Kulturveranstaltungen präsentiert, ist eng verbunden mit seiner geopolitischen Lage. Als Halbinsel umfangen vom Reich der Mitte, China, und der aufstrebenden Großmacht Japan, war das "Land der Morgenstille" zugleich Kulturbrücke und Spielball der Mächte.

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Alienation and Introspection; The Crisis and Loss of Identity   By Yang Yun-eui on Oct 27 2014 23:56:44 Vol.2 Winter 2008 Korea experienced a period of social change during the process of industrialization. During this time, the individual was gradually isolated and diminished by society’s organizations, the collective masses, and the mechanisms of industrial development. Every individual possesses a unique identity and that fact alone makes him an independent being. At the same time, the individual’s tangible lifestyle is deeply tied to the society to which he belongs. Therefore, his individuality is not formed autonomously or independently, but rather worked out in a social group setting. An individual’s identity was somewhat fixed and stable in traditional society because the social structure established the boundaries of thought and action, thereby clearly imposing a social role on the individual. Through this process, the individual is born as a member of a collective body and lives as a part of the stable world. However, as a result of changes and expansions in the social structure and the accelerating complexity of the modern age, issues of identity have become increasingly more unstable and fluid. Faced with structural changes in the mechanized and uniform modern indust-rial society, individuals have no choice but to feel alienated..

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Dating Culture   By Kang Yu-jung on Nov 16 2014 20:47:40 Vol.21 Autumn 2013 Dates and Dating: Unexplored Emotional Territory In the English vernacular, the word “to date” means “to go out with someone with whom one is romantically interested.” But the word deiteu (date) in Korean has a slightly different meaning: “two people meeting with the intention of pursuing a romantic relationship.” In other words, “dating” in Korean has more long-term overtones. Dating is the step before a relationship becomes serious, the stage full of tension and curiosity. It is notable that Koreans have opted to stick with this borrowed term to describe romantic relationships rather than finding a Korean equivalent. When the term was first incorporated into the Korean vernacular, the romantic nature of a relationship was emphasized by using deiteu, as opposed to “seeing someone” or “being together.” The foreignness of the word also made the word fashionable and less sexually charged. It became a more sophisticated alternative to traditional taboos concerning courtship.

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Kim Seungok: A Literature of and for the Self   By Steven D. Capener on Nov 09 2014 06:02:46 Vol.18 Winter 2012 I first came across the literature of Kim Seungok in the late 1990s while teaching in the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Ewha Womans University. It immediately struck me as different from anything I had read before (and from anything I have read since). My interest was piqued and, later, while working on my PhD in Korean literature, I gave his work a good deal of attention. Kim Seungok quite literally burst onto the literary scene as a precocious college student in 1962 with the publication of "Practice for Life" in the Hanguk Ilbo. His career as a writer was, comparatively speaking, not particularly prolific nor long (he wrote almost all of his major works in the decade of the 60s); he produced only 15 short stories, three novellas, four novels, two unfinished works, and one collection of essays. The impact of his work on the Korean literary establishment, however, was unquestionably significant. Critics of the period pointed to two aspects of his literature that made it noteworthy: one was that his prose had achieved a “revolution of sensibility,” and the other was that in his writing was a “discovery of the self.”

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Reliving the Korean Film Renaissance (1950s-1960s)   By Chung Chong-hwa on Oct 28 2014 02:25:12 Vol.6 Winter 2009 After the liberation from Japanese rule in 1945, the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, and the declaration of a cease-fire in 1953, Korean society began its reconstruction phase in earnest. Amidst the wave of Western modernism—best represented by American culture—audiences became enamored with the glamorous American life shown in Hollywood genre films. Poet and literary critic Lim Wha once stated that cinema in the Joseon era first began by “cooperating with different neighboring cultures.” In fact, throughout its history, Korean cinema has constantly negotiated and merged with different art forms. It probably goes without saying that Korean cinema has always maintained a close relationship with literature. Traditional classic novels that are familiar to native Koreans, popular novels including newspaper serials, and literary fiction, which guaranteed the artistic level of the film, were always in constant demand from the film industry.

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The City: Modern Korean Literature Emerges from the City   By Park Sungchang on Nov 09 2014 23:26:59 Special Edition 2011 City life is one of the most universal experiences of modern people, which is not to say that this experience represents all facets of modernity, but it is true that it does encompass its most problematic aspects. The city is a product and process, not to mention the driving force of modernization. It is axiomatic that modern Korean literature not only delves into the problems of the city, but also raises issues with modernity. The foremost tasks for studying modernity in Korean modern literature are analyzing how cities are constructed in modern Korean literature, and how much of the urban sensibility is manifested. Korean modern literature had its birth in the city. If industrialization and capitalism can be construed to be some of the most apparent factors for the changes in modern Korean history, then the city is a cradle of political and economic problems as manifested through its living spaces. A critical aspect of modernity in Korean literature is that the city is a complex construct and yet people still live there. Korean modern literature reveals how its aesthetics were formulated in the city context, by people of the city. The city shows that modernity is not some abstraction, but something tangible with specific images and experiences. In Korean modern literature the problems of the city do not belong to a conceptual or ideological domain, but are something that can be experienced through incidents discovered in specific texts. 1.Risky Reading Kim Kyung-uk Munhakdongne Publishing Corp. 2008, 293p, ISBN 9788954606752 2. Ashes and Red Pyun Hye-Young, Changbi Publishers, Inc. 2010, 260p, ISBN 9788936433734 3. Gente di Wonmidong Yang Gui-ja, Cafoscarina, 2006 4. Style Baek Young Ok Wisdomhouse Publishing Co., Ltd. 2008, 355p, ISBN 9788959132959 5. Mujin im Nebel Kim Seungok, Peperkorn, 2009  

الخليج / November 01, 2023

كنت محظوظاً بالحصول على ملخصات ملمومة وحيوية لعدد من الروايات الكورية الجنوبية صادرة عن دار «صفصافة» في القاهرة للناشر والصحفي والمثقف محمد البعلي في مناسبة اختيار كوريا الجنوبية ضيف شرف معرض الشارقة الدولي للكتاب 2023، وأرجع هذا الحظ بالحصول على روايات ملخصة إلى الفراغ الواسع الذي ينفرد أمامنا حين نبحث عن الأدب الكوري الذي يقوم على لغة معروفة في آسيا باسم «هانغل» وتعود، كما جاء في «الويكيبيديا» في نشأتها إلى القرن الخامس عشر على يد الملك «سيجونغ العظيم».