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 One-on-One: Letters from the Future

2022-09-24 / II00001035

These are videos of “One on One” sessions of the Seoul International Writers’ Festival held at Community House Masil from September 24 to September 29. Writers Kim Bo-Young and Yoon Ha Lee participated in “Letters from the Future”; Kang Hwa Gil and Murata Sayaka, in “Between Fear and Fascination”; Kim Un-su and Megha Majumdar, in “A Door That Opens Out of the Map”; Ha Seong-nan and Samanta Schweblin, in “Narrative Beyond Narrative”; Yi Won and Sasha Dugdale, in “Moments and Eternity”; and Lim Chul-Woo and Karina Sainz Borgo, in “The Valley of History and Prayer of Silence.”

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.

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.