For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall looks at two more works joining the ranks of Korea's crime novel corpus.
The Korean Literary Crime Wave: Kim Young-ha’s Diary of a Murderer and Seo Mi-ae’s The Only Child
The Korea Blog
Dispatches on the literature, cinema, current events, and daily life of Korea from the LARB’s man in Seoul Colin Marshall and others.
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The Korean Literary Crime Wave: Jeong You-jeong’s The Good Son and Kim Un-su’s The Plotters
Colin Marshall looks at recent Korean crime fiction by Jeong You-jeong and Kim Un-su.
Stroll through the Real Cities of Korea from Anywhere in the World with YouTube’s Seoul Walker
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall inspects the digital flâneur YouTube channel, Seoul Walker.
Where Evolution Meets Creation: the Uncommonly Speculative Fiction of Kim Bo Young’s On the Origin of Species
For the second of a two-part series on Kim Bo Young, Colin Marshall writes about "On the Origin of Species."
When “I” Becomes “We”: The Techno-Mythological Imagination of Kim Bo-young’s I’m Waiting for You
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall reads Kim Bo-young's "I'm Waiting for You."
K-Pop Evolution: A Youtube Original Docuseries Traces the Origins of Korea’s Prime Cultural Export
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall dives into recent documentation of Korea's pop culture phenomena.
The Grandma from Minari Was a Grindhouse Femme Fatale: Kim Ki-young’s The Insect Woman (1972)
"In the Korean entertainment industry, quite unlike the American one, appearing in commercials is the surest sign of having made it."
