keulmadang / June 12, 2009

A la suite d’une vertigineuse urbanisation et d’une modernisation sans précédent, la Corée a montré deux visages radicalement différents. Le premier est celui d’un développement efficace et rayonnant, le second, celui d’une modernisation insensible et dangereuse. Au 21e siècle, quel regard portera la nouvelle génération d’écrivains coréens sur la ville ?

Brivemag / November 06, 2015

C’est une jeune maison d’édition entièrement consacrée à la littérature coréenne contemporaine qu’elle traduit avec une passion toute familiale. Decrescenzo éditeurs est présente pour la première fois à la Foire du livre de Brive avec deux de ses auteurs. Les livres ont une couverture au graphisme épuré, un papier au grammage plus épais et une fenêtre ouverte sur une diversité d’horizons. A découvrir stand L24 en cette année où la Corée du Sud est plus qu’à l’honneur. 

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Popular Culture Connects with Literature: Kim Young-ha, Park Min-gyu, Kim Kyung-uk, Kim Junghyuk   By Kang Yu-jung on Oct 31 2014 07:48:28 Vol.12 Summer 2011 Leaving behind the political of their predecessors, writers since the 1990s seek inspiration in the media-saturated, consumer-oriented masses of individuality.     1. Seek Within Popular Culture and Deliberate Through Literature Novels provide us with a multi-dimensional rendering of society’s cultural landscapes and desires. The language of the novel harnesses and gives form to desires drifting in reality; characters in novels and their conversations, sex, jobs, and lifestyles reflect the desires and deficiencies of their contemporaries. One great change that took place in Korean novels after 1987 was that personal desire was brought to the foreground. Contemporary novels began when the one-dimensional specimen of a fictional character evolved into an entity with individuality. Along those lines, it is notable that in Korean novels after 1987, a major part of personal desire is inspired by outside stimuli. One could argue that traditional novels such as Honggildongjeon are spawned by social circumstances of discriminating against second wives’ children, but the desire of novels after 1987 come in greater variety and class including objects represented by brand names. The desire of novels from 1990 and beyond preserves character types and their lifestyles. They turn on the computer the moment they wake up in the morning, listen to music on the Internet, and prefer the anonymity of 24-hour convenience stores. They are more comfortable around manmade structures than nature, and prefer the no-hassle relationships they form online than ones offline. The interesting thing is that a great part of this manmade world consists of a cultural form called popular culture. Their memories are shared with songs of popular singers, the names of fashionable clothing brands, and commercial film productions. Popular culture provides a well from which to draw one’s literary sensibility.

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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  

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The Postmodern City and Its Discontents   By Shin Hyoung Cheol on Oct 22 2014 08:36:27 Vol.1 Autumn 2008 As a result of Korea’s dizzying urbanization and modernization that have few precedents, Korea developed two radically different faces. One is an efficient and radiant modernity; the other, a heartless, dangerous modernity. In the 21st century, what shape will the city take for Korea’s next generation of writers?     Every city has two faces: that of an angel and that of a devil. These double aspects of a city result from the fact that the city is a child of modernity: simultaneously an angel and a devil. As Cho Myung-Rae clearly demonstrates in his book The Modern Society and City-theory and Reality (2002), the “city is not only a mold with which modernity is formed, but also an obvious medium that can represent modernity.” In short, the two faces of a city are those of modernity. Since urbanization and modernization in Korea have been achieved so rapidly, the mark of these two faces was carved very sharply in history. Koreans have experienced modernities of both efficiency and cruelty. What the authors have kept their eyes on was, of course, the latter. The efforts to overthrow the dangerous modernity of cruelty have advanced through the 70s and 80s and ignited the fire of revolution. During the 1980s, which can be recalled as a time of revolution, Korea had achieved democratization but failed to further the revolution. Korean literature had to accept the new frame of the so-called confusion of postmodernism. In When Adam Becomes Awake by Jang Jeong-il (once considered enfant terrible of the day), the main character Adam wakes up in a fake paradise named Seoul and sheds tears while watching the neon-lit cross of a church. In this novel, the passion and prospect, apparently the signs of the modern project of liberation, can hardly be found. This work is an apocalypse of postmodern consumer society..

Agencia EFE / April 18, 2022

Libros y lectores colombianos se reencontrarán a partir de este martes en la capital del país en la XXXIV Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá (FILBo), que vuelve de manera presencial tras dos años de pandemia y con Corea del Sur como país invitado de honor.Libros y lectores colombianos se reencontrarán a partir de este martes en la capital del país en la XXXIV Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá (FILBo), que vuelve de manera presencial tras dos años de pandemia y con Corea del Sur como país invitado de honor.