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Im Rahmen der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2005, die immer einen Länderschwer­punkt hat, sind koreanische Autoren be­reits im Frühjahr zu Lesungen in Deutschland zu Gast. Die Ernst-Abbe- Bücherei freut sich, das hiesige literatur­interessierte Publikum mit Büchern von LIM Chul-Woo und H0N6 Sungwon am 15. März, ab 19.30 Uhr bekannt machen zu können. Der Schriftsteller LIM Chul-Woo, 1954 geboren, stellt sich mit seinem Er­zählungsband „Das rote Zimmer" vor. 

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Im Rahmen der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2005, die immer einen Länderschwer­punkt hat, sind koreanische Autoren be­reits im Frühjahr zu Lesungen in Deutschland zu Gast. Die Ernst-Abbe- Bücherei freut sich, das hiesige literatur­interessierte Publikum mit Büchern von LIM Chul-Woo und H0N6 Sungwon am 15. März, ab 19.30 Uhr bekannt machen zu können. Der Schriftsteller LIM Chul-Woo, 1954 geboren, stellt sich mit seinem Er­zählungsband „Das rote Zimmer" vor.

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People: A Beautiful Country Is a Community of the Imagination   By Ryoo Bo Sun on Nov 09 2014 07:38:44 Special Edition 2011 One of the great challenges that Korean literature faces in the postmodern period is how to invent a meaningful community of imagination that can satisfy the following equation: people = state (or capital). This paradigm is deeply related to the fact that Korean history in the postmodern era progressed under the people ≠ state (or capital) model. Around the time that Korea was independently forming the idea that people = state (= capital), the Japanese Empire forced Korea to pursue the people ≠ state paradigm. Even after Korea's liberation, this paradigm continued unchanged, with the Cold War unavoidably perpetuating it, leading to the division of the peninsula under two different nations and political ideologies. Another problem, however, was that the people ≠ state model caused Koreans to become obsessed with the people = state paradigm as an absolute good, which they espoused and idealized. Therefore the people ≠ state paradigm has been the biggest cause of unhappiness in modern Korea. That is why literature, which has the power to reconstruct new worlds in a manner different from that of politics, had to conceive of a people = state paradigm completely different from political incarnations of this idea. As a result, Korean literature has been unable to put to rest its interest in what form the people = state paradigm should take. The first representative work of Korean fiction that focused on a sincere reflection of the sense of a meaningful community was Park Kyung-Ri's novel, Land. This novel focused on Koreans' hardships from the country's colonization to liberation. However Land didn't focus solely on the ordeals of the people who learned through bitter experience what the people ≠ empire paradigm entailed. Park's novel reconstructed and reproduced the miserable people ≠ empire model from history, while at the same time uncovered a meaningful form of coexistence between the people, the state, and capital while also offering ideological roots to support this harmonious condition.

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The Significance of Hong Sung-won’s Novel However   By Shinfune Kaisaburo on Nov 09 2014 02:01:06 Vol.9 Autumn 2010   されど (However) Hong Sung-won Japan Honnoizumi 2010     However, a novel by the late Hong Sung-won, was published in Japan in April, marking the second anniversary of his death. The novel depicts a character that staged a fight against imperialist Japanese to secure independence for Korea but later betrayed his own country and led a shameful life. The novel chronicles the miserable life of the turncoat and the tragic life of his descendants. The editor who helped publish the Japanese edition explains the significance of the novel.   This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Japanese annexation of Korea. A turning point in Japanese history, various attempts to re-examine the relationship between Korea and Japan once again are appearing in a variety of forms such as publications, symposiums, or special TV and newspaper reports. Looking back at Japanese modernization and the neighboring countries plundered in the process (the Japanese took over the Korean peninsula, Taiwan, and northeast China, and founded a puppet country, Manchuria) is an important exercise not just in learning from past mistakes, but in looking to the past to understand where Japan is today. Share. Twitter Facebook Google Email .