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Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature (set 2). "Stab" by Kim In-suk.
ASIA Publishers present some of the very best modern Korean literature to readers worldwide through its new Korean literature series Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature. We are proud and happy to offer it in the most authoritative translation by renowned translators of Korea literature. We hope that this series helps to build solid bridges between citizens of the world and Koreans through rich in-depth understanding of Korea.
part of the story: So you become a professor and I a professor’s wife, she’d said during one of their quarrels in the past. Don’t you think our dreams are so cheap and pathetic? What could we do? That’s the way our lives turned out. We just have to live with it. They’d clung to one thing for too long to the exclusion of everything else. It dragged them down like leaden weights. Why did they let it happen that way? Why didn’t they stop to ask if there was any alternative? Was it to meet their parents’ expectations, to be ideal parents to their children, or to impress their friends and acquaintances?
ASIA Publishers present some of the very best modern Korean literature to readers worldwide through its new Korean literature series Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature. We are proud and happy to offer it in the most authoritative translation by renowned translators of Korea literature. We hope that this series helps to build solid bridges between citizens of the world and Koreans through rich in-depth understanding of Korea.
part of the story: So you become a professor and I a professor’s wife, she’d said during one of their quarrels in the past. Don’t you think our dreams are so cheap and pathetic? What could we do? That’s the way our lives turned out. We just have to live with it. They’d clung to one thing for too long to the exclusion of everything else. It dragged them down like leaden weights. Why did they let it happen that way? Why didn’t they stop to ask if there was any alternative? Was it to meet their parents’ expectations, to be ideal parents to their children, or to impress their friends and acquaintances?
81 pages, Paperback
Published June 10, 2013
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About the author
In-suk Kim
11 books5 followersFor her works in Korean, see
김인숙
For the economist, see In-Suk Kim
Kim Insuk was born in Seoul in 1963. Some of her works, The Road Travelled Together, The Light Nearby, and 1979-1980 Between the Winter and the Spring, are based on her experience of the democratisation movement in Korea during the 80s. After 1990, Korean society also underwent abrupt changes in the midst of the shifts in the world order brought on by the end of the Cold War. Kim devoted herself to scrutinizing the problems of compromise, fatigue, depression, and lethargy that began to appear in Korean society as it internalized the new capitalist order. Blade and Love and Story of a Woman are some of her works from this period. In 1993 Kim resided in Sydney, Australia for one and a half years; at the beginning of the 2000s she stayed for three and a half years in Dalian, China. Kim’s works The Long Road, Sydney, Standing at the Blue Ocean, and Ocean and Butterfly are based on those experiences. She has created stories that take place somewhere in the world beyond the borders of Korea. Kim’s works also include That Woman’s Autobiography, Bye, Elena, To Be Insane and Sohyeon. From the beginning of her writing career, Kim has persistently produced works that deal with the problems of the present time and that offer introspection into the human existence, without losing sight of the currents of changes in reality.
http://literature.britishcouncil.org/
For the economist, see In-Suk Kim
Kim Insuk was born in Seoul in 1963. Some of her works, The Road Travelled Together, The Light Nearby, and 1979-1980 Between the Winter and the Spring, are based on her experience of the democratisation movement in Korea during the 80s. After 1990, Korean society also underwent abrupt changes in the midst of the shifts in the world order brought on by the end of the Cold War. Kim devoted herself to scrutinizing the problems of compromise, fatigue, depression, and lethargy that began to appear in Korean society as it internalized the new capitalist order. Blade and Love and Story of a Woman are some of her works from this period. In 1993 Kim resided in Sydney, Australia for one and a half years; at the beginning of the 2000s she stayed for three and a half years in Dalian, China. Kim’s works The Long Road, Sydney, Standing at the Blue Ocean, and Ocean and Butterfly are based on those experiences. She has created stories that take place somewhere in the world beyond the borders of Korea. Kim’s works also include That Woman’s Autobiography, Bye, Elena, To Be Insane and Sohyeon. From the beginning of her writing career, Kim has persistently produced works that deal with the problems of the present time and that offer introspection into the human existence, without losing sight of the currents of changes in reality.
http://literature.britishcouncil.org/
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