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Human Acts, One Step Closer to a Painful Memory

Book Trip   [Into the Book ⑤] Human Acts, One Step Closer to a Painful Memory Historical Sites of the May 18 Democratic Uprising in Gwangju Metropolitan Area   2023.12.04   Human Acts       Some memories don’t heal. Rather than fading away over time,the memory remains, and everything else slowly wears away.     Han Kang’s novel published in 2014, Human Acts (Changbi Publishers), which won the Man Booker Prize in 2016, tells the story of the Gwangju May 18 Democratic Uprising* through the eyes of several characters. Even though more than 40 years have passed, Gwangju is a city that still remembers and mourns the pain of the May uprising in 1980, when citizens and university students stood up for democracy. The novel narrates the events of the ten days from May 18, 1980, through six characters. The writer focuses on individual emotions and pain, not political or social debates, so you can feel the pain as...
  • VOL.65 / 2023.12
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Re-creating Pyeongsa-ri from the Book Land

Book Trip   [Into the Book ④] Re-creating Pyeongsa-ri from the Book Land Pyeongsa-ri, Agyang-myeon, Hadong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do:Land, the Book Inside an Autumnal Landscape   2023.11.06   Land       On Korean Thanksgiving in 1897, before the magpies had even come to the persimmon tree within the hedge to say good morning, children dressed in colorless clothes and with long dangling hair raced through the village streetswith songpyeon (a traditional Korean food made of rice powder) in their mouths.     A place where the golden rice ripens over vast fields, and the stems of Mount Jirisan and the Seomjin River gently surround – it is Pyeongsa-ri in Agyang-myeon, Hadong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do. It is the geographical setting of Park Kyong-Ni’s epic novel Land. As the novel, written over a period of 25 years from 1969 to 1994, became a bestseller, Pyeongsa-ri Village became a representative tourist attraction ...
  • VOL.64 / 2023.11
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Where the Children from the Book Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village Used to Play

Book Trip   [Into the Book ①] Where the Children from the BookChildren of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village Used to Play Mansuk-dong, Dong-gu, Incheon: Time Travel with the Book   2023.08.07   Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village       The Kwaeng-i-bu-ri Village is the oldest poor neighborhood in Incheon. (...)Over the years, the village turned from a forest of pine trees into a factory townfull of smokestacks and shanty houses.     Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village (Changbi Publishers), published in 2000, is a children’s book featuring the life of twin sisters Sook-Hee (the main character) and Sook-Ja living in a poor daldongne neighborhood. The word “daldongne” means a poor village situated on the slopes of a hill in Korea, and it is said to have deriven from its proximity to the moon. It is widely known that Kim Jung-Mi, the writer, had once run a s...
  • VOL.61 / 2023.08
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#Love

#K-Book   #Love KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.05.02   Some Shape of Love 1. Publication Details   Title | Some Shape of LoveAuthor | Seon Ran CheonPublisher | ArzaklivresPublication Date | 2020-07-20ISBN | 9791165508340No. of pages | 336Dimensions | 137 * 197   2. Copyright Contact   Name | Choi JaechunEmail | decomma@gmail.comPhone | +82-10-3495-1125   3. Book Intro   This is the first collection of novels by Cheon Seonran, who received the grand prize for full-length novels at the 4th Korean Science Literature Awards.Included in the collection is To the Desert, a story of a woman who becomes an astronaut that was written at the suggestion of Cheon’s father to write about the desert, as well as Lessi, in which an expedition to Saturn’s ice moon Enceladus to overcome the extinction of sea creatures on Earth is met with an alien encount...
  • VOL.58 / 2023.05
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Joseon Art Museum

New Books   Joseon Art Museum   2023.04.03                     A Special Art Museum in the World - Joseon Art MuseumA special art museum that you have never seen before has opened! It is not western or modern art – It’s art from the Joseon Dynasty! It's the middle of a spring day when the cherry trees are in full bloom – it's said to shake the hearts of all women. - Shin Yun-Bok, A Widow’s Lust in Spring (嫠婦探春), kept by the Kansong Art and Culture FoundationThe figure of the doe is as confident as that of the Confucian scholar riding on horseback – she is determined to play her role faithfully during the hunt. - Kim Hong-Do, A Nobleman’s Falconry (貴人鷹獵), kept by the Kansong Art and Culture FoundationMen and women of all ages gathered for one of the most vivid genre paintings during the reign of King Sukjong. - Royal March to Enshrin...
  • VOL.57 / 2023.04
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2nd Week, March 2023

Best Sellers   2nd Week, March 2023 Best seller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2023.04.03   It’s March - spring has come in Korea, but the weather is yet chilly. Here, heartwarming books that soothe readers’ hearts have been receiving much love. For example, professor Kim Joo-Hwan, the first person to discuss the norm of “resilience” in Korea, introduces ways to prevent our minds from being hurt through the book Inner Communication. With scientific evidence for training mental muscles that help us easily overcome failure, the book suggests the path to a happy life. Also, writer Kim Sang-Hyun’s You Can Do Anything, After All, made an astonishing sales record of 100 thousand copies, proving its popularity among readers. This book offers warm condolences to those frustrated by failure and trials and errors.Meanwhile, a book of an entirely different genre stood among the top 10 best sellers with a cute cat on its cover. The book Jeju Cat...
  • VOL.57 / 2023.04
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Namhansanseong Fortress

Special Project   [Book & Media ②] Namhansanseong Fortress To Surrender, or to Fight until the Last Minute, That is the Question   2023.03.13   The King of Joseon and His Aides Besieged by the Qing Dynasty Army after Retreating to Namhansanseong Fortress.Life-or-Death Debate on whether to Surrender or Fight until death.Enemy Troops Approaching amidst Depleting Supplies.   Byungjahoran (the Qing’s invasion of Joseon in Byungja year, 1636-1637) is a war that broke out in 1636 between Joseon and the Qing dynasty of China. The Qing invaded Joseon in anger at Joseon’s pro-Ming policy (a foreign policy favoring the Ming dynasty). Consequently, the then ruler of Joseon, King Injo (r. 1623-1649), fled the royal palace and retreated to Namhansanseong fortress (Namhansanseong is a historical mountain fortress city 25km southeast of Seoul, South Korea), where he resisted. As such, Byungjahoran marks a watershed event in the...
  • VOL.56 / 2023.03
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#Companion Animal

#K-Book   #Companion Animal KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.03.13   Companion Human 1. Publication Details   Title | Companion HumanAuthor | Shin jin, Gwon Mun GyeongPublisher | SANZINIPublication Date | 2020-09-10ISBN | 9788965456728No. of pages | 192Dimensions | 152 * 210   2. Copyright Contact   Name | Kang SugeulEmail | sanzini@sanzinibook.comPhone | +82-51-504-7070   3. Book Intro   Companion Human is a collection of stories that deal with the subject of the ecological restoration of humans and nature. Ecologism, as defined by the author, encompasses the ecological restoration of physical nature, the purification of the social system, and the restoration of individuals and community. In modern society—with its self-centered rational brutality, materialism, and human alienation—it is very difficult to realize ecologism. Even so, the ...
  • VOL.56 / 2023.03
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#Travel in Korea

#K-Book   #Travel in Korea KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.02.20   Man of Facts and Woman of Feelings 1. Publication Details   Title | Man of Facts and Woman of FeelingsSubtitle | An Opposite Couple’s One-Month Travel in South KoreaAuthor | Hakgu Jeong, Sukyeong LeePublisher | HappybookmediaPublication Date | 2021-12-13ISBN | 9788998079451No. of pages | 304Dimensions | 150 * 220   2. Copyright Contact   Name | Kwon KyoungokEmail | doheene@naver.comPhone | +82-051-555-9684   3. Book Intro   Since meeting at a newspaper company and getting married, this agile couple have been busy going on road trips - even after their children were born. Always with an excuse of having to see the world, they are travel enthusiasts who have been all over the country and even all the way to Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Then their dream opportu...
  • VOL.55 / 2023.02
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Museum Curator’s Pick

One-Liner Quotes   Museum Curator’s Pick   2023.02.20     Westerners who visited “Joseon (the previous name of Korea)” in the 19th century described the country as the “Hermit Kingdom” or the “Land of Morning Calm.” Since that was how Joseon was depicted by foreigners, a third party, I just thought so, too. However, was Joseon, a dynasty that lasted for as long as 500 years, nothing but a reclusive and silent country? Landscape of Joseon’s Backstreet (Purunyoksa) by Kang Myung-Kwan is filled with content that would be exciting for those who usually get overwhelmed and bored by the word “history.” I used to know Joseon as a country dominated by strong Confucian culture and noble seonbi (scholars), but I wondered what made the author so eager to depict the landscape of the kingdom’s alleys. Even now, alleys are riskier and scarier than main roads as we don’t ...
  • VOL.55 / 2023.02
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