Something Korean

The title of the Korean novel "Dang-in Ri: Two hours running out after Blackout" showcases multiple imagined large-scale failure in South Korea's electricity generator system. The Dang-in Ri plant is an extra, emergency plant in which shows up a team of people doing everything they can to mend the situation, cranking their brains. One of the team members is a young fun-seeking ex-game-developer...

No literary work with animal characters can advocate peace better than Watership Down. The whole of it gives the feeling of peaceful release felt by several brave rabbits who are travelling distances that are far for rabbits, coming across two dysfunctional warrens onwards. Both times the gathered rabbits dodge those tyrannical kingdoms with wit, and establish their own atmosphere of "no violenc..

Is it poems, or poetry, that come to "me"? Endless nostalgic thoughts come to "me", a poet and his self as the editor of this collection, which are regularly reflected in this book's multiple poems and corresponding commentaries, read individually in a few lines. Some of the short commentaries are also about people. People in the poet's lifetime whom he met whether literary people or other. This..

The author, famed a long time for being voluble in South Korea, Song Sokze's 51 tiny sketches are gathered in his book "The Amusing Life". translated to English by Se-un Kim, to challenge and gently humour the audience's wit. The 5-page anecdotal night is long for this young driver who is driving home off duty - This is a car ride that leads to an encounter with a pretty, thoroughly tearful girl..

In an alternative universe of 1832, against the background of a great house of Sir Willoughby, a distant, cruel cousin makes the young heroines go through abusive hardships and fearful tears are wept on the way, until the situation radically changes and comforting words and plucky, adventurous actions take us through to the very end.