Colin Marshall explores the difficulties of queer romance in Seoul in Sang Young Park's Novel "Love in the Big City."
How to Make It in Seoul: Sang Young Park’s Novel of Gay Almost-Romance Love in the Big City

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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Colin Marshall explores the difficulties of queer romance in Seoul in Sang Young Park's Novel "Love in the Big City."
Colin Marshall explores what goes into transforming into one's own murdered sibling in Kwon Yeo-sun's "Lemon."
Colin Marshall looks back on an earlier era of Korean TV dramas, before the glitz of contemporary K-Drama.
Colin Marshall thinks about the export of Korean culture in the academy and Routledge's recent "Handbook of Contemporary South Korea."
Colin Marshall writes of Hwang Sok-yong's "The Prisoner," a memoir of his captivity in South Korea for traveling north of the 38th Parallel.
Colin Marshall surveys a portrait of an older Seoul in Lee Hyeong-pyo's "Under the Sky of Seoul" (1961).
For the final installment of Colin Marshall's look into recent Korean crime fiction, he reviews "The Law of Lines" and "The Disaster Tourist."
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall looks at two more works joining the ranks of Korea's crime novel corpus.
Colin Marshall looks at recent Korean crime fiction by Jeong You-jeong and Kim Un-su.
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall inspects the digital flâneur YouTube channel, Seoul Walker.