中国文化报 文化传播网 / December 20, 2007

本报讯 曾获得2007格里芬诗人奖、终生有功奖的韩国诗人高银与现任韩国现代文学馆馆长、万海文学奖获得者金源一, 近日来华与中国读者见面交流。

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.

中国文化报 文化传播网 / December 20, 2007

曾获得2007格里芬诗人奖、终生有功奖的韩国诗人高银与现任韩国现代文学馆馆长、万海文学奖获得者金源一，近日来华与中国读者见面交流。

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A Classic Work Reviving History: The House with the Sunken Courtyard by Kim Won Il Author's Profile By Men Xiaowei on Nov 09 2014 01:03:50 Vol.7 Spring 2010   The House with the Sunken Courtyard Kim Won Il Kim Taicheng China China Social Sciences Press 2009 The House with the Sunken Courtyard by Kim Won Il, published in 2009 by the China Social Sciences Press, is a work that deftly reveals the social realities of Korea in the wake of the Korean War, providing readers with an opportunity to learn about the history and realities of Korea. The wounds and brutal reality resulting from the war are vividly revived through a look into the daily lives of refugees after the war. The Korean War, which broke out on the Korean peninsula in 1950, had a deep impact on Korean society, as well as a direct impact on Chinese society, and has left people with vivid memories. The House with the Sunken Courtyard, with its adroit, true-to-life depiction of the social realities of Korea after the war, is a major work representing the Korean War novels that serve as a window through which Chinese readers may learn of the recent history. China and Korea have geological proximity, and many other things in common including a far-reaching history of cultural exchanges. The recent rush of cultural exchanges between the two countries has provided opportunities for progress for both countries. Knowledge of the past is vital in understanding the present and anticipating the future. The House with the Sunken Courtyard, presents readers with a vivid depiction of a horrific history. It shows the grave impact of the war on Korean society and its people, and provides a valuable opportunity to understand the history and realities of Korea.

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A Glorious Openness: Novelist Kim Won Il Author's Profile By Kwon O-ryong on Nov 09 2014 23:57:02 Special Edition 2011 While writing Closely Reading Kim Won Il, I said the following: "While 20th century Korean history was harsh, it was doubly so for author Kim Won Il. He directly experienced the pain of war and national division, yet he was able to withstand this through moral integrity, channeling his energy into artistic will. As a result, he was successful in his life and literary work, becoming a cultural giant in the process." War, in particular, drove Kim into even more severe privation. War can decisively and continuously change one's destiny. His boyhood dreams of being a painter were snatched away by war. No matter how artistically talented he might have been, after the Korean War began Kim Won Il entered a desperate struggle against poverty in which painting was little more than a pipe dream. Then what about literature? Amidst such poverty, wouldn't literature be a luxury as well? Sartre once lamented, “What use is literature to a starving man?” Yet literature is different. When something within needs to be expressed, when my existence and life itself have fallen into the funk of meaninglessness, when I feel like I'd be better off dead, this desperation and urgency needs literature's succor. As György Lukács once said, literature proves the existence of one's soul... Around when did Kim Won Il become aware of a calling for literature? Kim said: "When I was 11-years-old, I first read one of Thomas Mann's novels. Before then I had been very introverted and timid, and because of our household's poverty I had an inferiority complex as well. After discovering the intense artistic and social exploration pursued in Mann's novels, I decided that instead of avoiding myself, I would look into my soul and discover a path toward a more open Kim. By recording this process in writing, I was able to achieve enlightenment." 

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Family: The Decline of the Patriarch, the Rise of the Matriarch   By Jung Yeo-ul on Nov 09 2014 08:09:08 Special Edition 2011 Trauma, or the Mother as Origin I think it is no coincidence that the most notable Korean novels on the theme of family have the mother narrative at their core. A mother’s worldview and the values she instills in her children play a defining role in a child’s life. What is the image that comes to mind when we think of mothers? One who protects me, one who will stand by me to the end, one who will sacrifice everything for me. We have been harboring so many selfish prejudices and unjust fantasies of what a mother should be. People often forget that a mother is also a woman, a human being, someone’s daughter, and someone’s wife. People tend to seek relief from the duties of reciprocal relationships in this world by expecting to take and not give back in mother-child relationships. Our lives consist of being born into a family, creating a new one, and saying goodbye to each member as we grow older and die. The coining of the term, “single-person family” is a testament to how quickly the concept of family is changing today. As the institution of family begins to shrink and disintegrate, people develop and yearn for increasingly romantic and idealistic conceptions of happy families. While it appears as though the family is disintegrating, family is still the most basic building block of society, as well as a source of literature from which literature is born.

聯合新聞網 / June 27, 2021

文學獎制度是由多種制度相互交織而成的韓國文學場主要組成部分。目前在韓國實施的文學獎數量超過一百多種，其獎項性質也相當多樣。這些眾多文學獎分別由不同規模的出版社、言論媒體、文學團體或文藝雜誌、企業財團、地方政府、大學，以及個別作家紀念會等具文化屬性的機構所設置。其中，有些是以出版社和地方政府合辦方式管理，有些是由言論媒體和文學團體共同主辦，因此很難明確指出其所屬主管單位。此外，考慮到詩、小說、散文、童話、戲劇、文學批評等各文學領域都分別設有各自的文學獎項，因此以何種標準同時又如何對其分類，其實並非易事。不過，整體來看仍可以大分為以作家命名的文學獎以及其他二類，在此姑且依此分類略作介紹。