Tiempo / February 12, 2020

Es argentino, traductor y fundó una editorial, Hwarang, para difundir la literatura coreana en el mundo hispano. El proyecto tiene sólo 10 meses y ya hay tres títulos en las librerías. Uno de ellos es una antología de las pioneras del feminismo coreano, ¿Por qué te empeñas en sufrir así? Este y otros títulos abren la puertas de un mundo muy poco conocido en Argentina.

ABC Color / December 22, 2019

Hoy vamos a conocer la vida de tres mujeres extraordinarias nacidas en Corea el mismo año, 1896, y también algo de la cultura y la sociedad de su época, de la mano de Sunme Yoon y Nicolás Braessas, autores de los textos que extractamos a continuación.

ABC Color / December 22, 2019

El libro ¿Por qué te empeñas en sufrir así? Pioneras del feminismo coreano (Buenos Aires, editorial Hwarang, 2019) ha sido presentado en la capital argentina este mes de diciembre del 2019, y su presentación en Asunción se prevé para marzo del 2020. La traductora es Sunme Yoon, quien hace una introducción (titulada «Pioneras y mártires del feminismo») a la vida y obra de las tres cuentistas que incluye el volumen. Las autoras son Na Hyeseok, Kim Yryeop y Kim Myeongsun. Son consideradas las pioneras del feminismo coreano. En el prólogo, firmado por el editor, Nicolás Braessas, se explica la historia de la literatura coreana femenina.

HighBeam / January 01, 2002

Na Hye-sok (1896-1948) lived a pioneering life as an individual woman, artist, and writer during the turbulent period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea. A beneficiary of progressive education in Korea, Japan, and Europe, rarely available to average Koreans of her time, Na enjoyed high social visibility and reputation. She broke new ground in Western oil painting as the first Korean woman professional painter and also had an indelible impact on modern Korean literature and culture as a reform-minded writer and critic. Her life and creative activities, often iconoclastic and audacious, were rarely free of press attention and controversy because they challenged the conventional thinking and status quo of her own society. Her major work, "Kyonghui," polemicizes some of the urgent and thorny issues of Korean society in the throes of modernization, focusing on gender and patriarchal relations, Confucian family and marriage institutions, and women's identity and autonomy. Na's most accomplished work of fiction, "Ky onghui" qualifies itself as the first full-blown, feminist short story in Korean literature, marked by its heroine's successful completion of self-discovery and her difficult quest for meaning in life as a "new woman." As such, the story represents one of the towering points in the intellectual annals of modern Korea as well as in modern Korean women's writing traditions.