Colin Marshall revisits "Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982," the debut novel by a former television writer named Cho Nam-joo.
The Book of Jiyoung: An Explosively Controversial Korean Feminist Novel Comes Out in English
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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In Praise of Pilsa, the Highly Uncreative Korean Method of Learning to Write
Colin Marshall discusses a maligned yet effective method of learning in Korea.
Rediscovering Korean Cinema: An Academic Look at the Zombies, Mutants, Criminals, and Prostitutes of South Korea’s Silver Screen
Colin Marshall looks at a new essay collection about the history and influence of Korean cinema.
The Coronavirus Breaks Out in Itaewon, the “Gays-and-Foreigners” Seoul Neighborhood Celebrated in a Hit Netflix Drama
Colin Marshall delves into culture of an Americanized neighborhood of Seoul and a popular K-drama set there: "Itaewon Class."
Selling Your Body to Seoul: Kim Ho-seon’s Yeong-ja’s Heydays (1975)
For the Korea Blog, Colin Marshall discusses the evolving portrayals of Korea's cinematic prostitutes.
From Nation-Builder to (Would-Be) Apple-Killer: Geoffrey Cain’s Corporate Biography Samsung Rising
Colin Marshall's latest Korea Blog entry looks at Korea's megacorp through the book "Samsung Rising" by American journalist Geoffrey Cain.
A British Denmark Expat Takes the Measure of Korea: Michael Booth’s Three Tigers, One Mountain
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall reviews Michael Booth's "Three Tigers, One Mountain," a history of the geopolitical relations in East Asia.
