Park Seolyeon debuted in 2015 in the journal Silcheon Munhak. She received the 2018 Hankyoreh Literary Award for her novel The Girl in the Air. She has authored the novels Martha’s Work, The Shirley Club, and the short-story collection My Hormones Made Me Do It. She runs the literature platform Dungeon (www.d5nz5n.com).

[Korean Literature Now] An Audiobook of "Your Mom’s the Better Player" by Park Seolyeon

Lim Solah is a poet-cum-novelist. She has published the poetry collection Strange Weather and Good People, the short story collection Snow, Person, and Snowperson, and the novel The Best Life. She has received the JoongAng New Writer’s Award for Poetry, Munhakdongne College Fiction Prize, and Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature. She received the Arts Council Korea’s Young Art Frontier Grant in 2014.

[Korean Literature Now] An Audiobook of "Quitters" by Lim Solah

[Audiobook] Aftertaste of Sea Squirt by Cheon Un-yeong  I  소설 <멍게 뒷맛>(천운영) 영어 오디오북

[Audiobook] Before the Supervisor by Baek Minsuk  I  소설 <감독관 앞에서>(백민석) 영어 오디오북

[Audiobook] I Like It Here by Han Chang-hoon  I  소설 <나는 여기가 좋다>(한창훈) 영어 오디오북

[Audiobook] The Mother Pheasant by Kwon Jeong-saeng  I  소설 <엄마 까투리>(권정생) 영어 오디오북

[Audiobook] The Seniors of Samdo by Han Chang-hoon  I  소설 <삼도노인회 제주 여행기>(한창훈) 영어 오디오북

[Audiobook] Green Green Grass of Home by Baek Minsuk  I  소설 <Green Green Grass of Home>(백민석) 영어 오디오북

[Audiobook] The Wolf Came by Cheon Un-yeong  I  소설 <늑대가 왔다>(천운영) 영어 오디오북

[Audiobook] They Were Fated to Be Trifling by Baek Minsuk I 소설 <그들은 운명적으로 자질구레함을 타고났다>(백민석) 영어 오디오북

Lee Misang debuted in 2018 with the story “Hagin” in the e-zine Biyu for which she received the 2019 Munhak Dongne Young Writer’s Award. Her stories have appeared in the multi-author short-story collections The Heron Club and More than Fiction: Winter 2020.

[Korean Literature Now] An Audiobook of "When A Woman Subways" by Lee MisangLee Misang

Enjoy this English audiobook of the short story “Expectation” by Haena Sung, translated by Lee Kyung Min, read by Hannah kolk 

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[English Audiobook] “Hideo”, a short storyby Seo Jangwon I 서장원 소설 “히데오” 영어 오디오북

Enjoy this English audiobook of two poems by Park Joon, “Winter Solstice” and “Plaza,” translated by Susan K and Eun-Gwi Chung.

[English Audiobook] "Winter Solstice”, "Plaza" by Park Joon I 박준 시 “동지”, “광장” 영어 오디오북

Enjoy this English audiobook of two poems by Moon Boyoung, "Loss" and “Understanding Adaptation,” translated by Hedgie Choi.

[English Audiobook] "Loss" "Understanding Adaptation" by Moon Boyoung I 문보영 시 “손실””적응을 이해하다” 영어 오디오북

Kim Yu-jeong’s prose, with its liberal use of lively onomatopoeia, rustic dialects, and homespun colloquialisms, lends great animation to his subjects, providing readers with vitality-filled sketches of the impoverished and miserable lives lived by the lowest classes in rural villages under Japanese colonial rule. “The Heat of the Sun” (1937) follows Deoksun as he struggles to carry his starving, deathly-ill wife to the hospital, buoyed by the foolish hope that the hospital will pay them for the opportunity to research the wife’s illness.

[20th Century Korean Literature] The Heat of the Sun by Kim Yu-jeong

Yi Sang was one of Korea’s most innovative writers of modern literature, enough to deem him Korea’s finest modernist. He died at the early age of 27, but despite his short literary career, he produced surreal and highly experimental pieces that were avant-garde and far ahead of their time. His short story “Child’s Bone”, which is written in the stream of consciousness narrative style, skillfully depicts the love and affection between a woman named “Yim” and the two men in her life—Yun and the narrator. The story is composed of six natural scenes, like that from a play, from which the narrator’s inner thoughts and feelings flow out.

[20th Century Korean Literature] Child's Bone by Yi Sang

Kim Ae-ran majored in playwriting at the Korean National University of Arts. Her novel My Palpitating Life sold 140,000 copies in three months and was made into the movie My Brilliant Life in 2014. The novel has been translated into French, German, Chinese, and Japanese. Her works have appeared in Azalea, Asia Literary Review, and Inostrannaya Literatura. Kim has received the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award, Kim Yujung Literary Award, and Yi Sang Literary Award.

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[Korean Literature Now] An audiobook of "Prayer" by Kim Ae-ran

This work is a collection of essays travelogues written by women during the Joseon Dynasty(1392-1910). The work ranges from a eulogy for a broken needle to a travelogue describing various trips to scenic spots on the Korean peninsula, including to the Keum-Gang Mountains. Now available in English, this collection gives us a sampler of pre-modern women’s literature of Korea.

Eulogy For A Needle by Lady Yu

KOREANS trace the origin of their race into the mists of mythology. Picture, song and story are inspired by the legend of Tangoon who is said to have come from the Ever White Mountains in the year 2317 B.C. From linguistic and physiognomical indications the conclusion may be drawn that the original population immigrated from
India and from Thibet. Throughout the centuries, however, influxes of wandering tribes have come from Manchuria, the Urals, Central Asia and, most frequently, from China.
This has produced a somewhat complex racial mentality. After being stirred in the melting pot of the centuries, it accounts for the distinctive individuality to be detected in Korean art and literature. Though strongly influenced by China, it developed features undeniably its own.

The Orchid Door Ancient Korean Poems (Part 1)

Yun Ko Eun has written three novels and three short story collections. She has received the Daesan Literary Award, Hankyoreh Literary Award, and Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award. Her novels The Zero G Syndrome and Travelers of the Night have been published in China.

[Korean Literature Now] An audiobook of "Sweet Escape" by Yun Ko Eun

THE reader must lay aside all Western notions of morality if he would thoroughly enjoy this book. The scene of the amazing “Cloud Dream of the Nine,” the most moving romance of polygamy ever written, is laid about 840 A.D. in the period of the great Chinese dynasty of the Tangs. By its simple directness this hitherto unknown Korean classic makes an ineffaceable impression.
But the story of the devotion of Master Yang to eight women and of their devotion to him and to each other is more than a naive tale of the relations of men and women under a social code so far removed from our own as to be almost incredible. It is a record of emotions, aspirations and ideas which enables us to look into the innermost chambers of the Chinese soul. “The Cloud Dream of the Nine” is a revelation of what the Oriental thinks and feels not only about things of the earth but about the hidden things of the Universe. It helps us towards a comprehensible knowledge of the Far East.

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Choi Eunyoung has authored the short story collections Shoko’s Smile and Someone Harmless to Me. She has received the Writer’s World New Writer Award, the Heo Gyun Literary Award, the Kim Jun-sung Literary Award, and the Young Writers’ Award.

[Korean Literature Now] An audiobook of "Shoko's Smile" by Choi Eunyoung

Kim Yi-seol has published the novels Bad Blood, Welcome, and Seonhwa and the short story collections What No One Tells You and Quiet Like Today. She received the Hwang Sun-won Literary Award for New Literature. Welcome has been translated into French (Philippe Picquier, 2012) and German (Cass, 2015).

"Mothers" 
Translated from Korean into English by Janet Hong
from What No One Tells You

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