Kim Jeong-ho, who went by the pen name Gosanja, holds a special position in Korean history. He succeeded in creating Daedongyeojido, the most accurate map ever of the peninsula, despite belonging to the lower class of Joseon society, which was regimented by a strict class order.

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Park Bum Shin’s 39th novel, My Hands Turned into Hooves, is one that explores the violence of this world through “hooves.” In the words of the author himself, “This novel is an introspective work on how our society is one that has not escaped from the brutal, violent society of earlier days,”...

The Park Bum Shin novel A Filthy Desk is a tale set in the wretched sixty to seventy-year period of an impoverished Korea, before and during Park Chung-hee’s Yushin government. With special consideration given to the perspective of the populist elements, the realistic background and its...