2022 Seoul International Writers’ Festival Photographs

2022-09-23 / II00001033

These are the photographs of the Seoul International Writers’ Festival held from September 23 to September 30.

2022 Seoul International Writers’ Festival Highlights Video

2022-09-23 / II00001037

This is the video of highlights of the 2022 Seoul International Writers’ Festival, containing major scenes from the festival, which was held from September 23 to 30.

[Cover Feature] The Place of Hope

2022-09-07 / II00001135

This is a Cover Feature essay of KLN Vol. 57. Under the theme “The Place of Hope,” literary critic Yiso presents the interconnectedness between society and the narratives of three novels that do not ignore life’s contradictions and “barely manage to create hope”—Son Bo Mi’s A Small Neighborhood, Sim Yunkyung’s Eternal Heritage, and Lee Seo Su’s Help Me, Sister.

[Cover Feature] Where Dreams Begin Again and Continue

2022-09-07 / II00001136

This is a Cover Feature essay of KLN Vol. 57. Based on writer Lee Seo Su’s short story “Mijo’s Era,” literary critic Jung Hongsoo provides an overview of the temporal and social background of the novel, as well as the notion of hope within Korean society. He defines the aim of Korean literature as a realm “where dreams begin again and continue.”

2023 Seoul International Writers’ Festival Official Poster

2023-04-03 / II00001251

This is the official poster for the 2023 Seoul International Writers’ Festival.

2023 Seoul International Writers’ Festival Program Book

2023-04-03 / II00001252

This is the program book for the 2023 Seoul International Writers’ Festival, which contains the overview, schedule, participating writers, and event details.

KLN(Korean Literature Now) Vol.62

2023-12-01 / II00001281

The theme of KLN Vol. 62 is “Outside the Book, Inside the Bookshop.” In the Cover Feature essays, bookstore owners and a writer discuss their own literary experiences. This issue includes an interview with the Featured Writer Yi Won, English translation of her works, and an essay on her works. The Bookmark section features two works of fiction, Kim Byungwoon’s “September Is a Prayer for the Estranged” and Seo Ije’s “Low Resolution,” as well as two poems each by poets Lee Jenny and Go Myeongjae, while the Inkstone section features an English translation of the classical novel “The Tale of a Young Maiden of the Yu Family.” Book reviews have been written by translators, editors, and writers. This issue features reviews of five books—Kim Bo-young’s On the Origin of Species and Other Stories, Cheon Seonran’s A Thousand Blues, Kim Ho-yeon’s Uncanny Convenience Store, Chang Kang-myoung’s Pasukan Buzzer, and Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death.