273pp. Even as Yun Young-su has been faithful to the principles of realism, she has crafted a world of her own with fine, stylish sentences, and a delicate, controlled sense of balance. What...

273pp. Even as Yun Young-su has been faithful to the principles of realism, she has crafted a world of her own with fine, stylish sentences, and a delicate, controlled sense of balance. What...

#418 To a politician, nothing is more important than choosing one’s foe well. If one chooses a man too strong for oneself as one’s foe, one will be in mortal danger. If one chooses a small man as...

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Chapter 5 These Shining Works of Literature The pedestrian path is narrow. A narrow path has been paved along the banks of a brook, and over half of it has been taken over by the bike lane, so one...

2. Silence The woman brings her hands together in front of her chest. She wrinkles her forehead and looks up at the blackboard. “Now, read it aloud.” A man, with a smile playing on his lips, says...

I got the first email about two weeks after my friend left the country. The subject line read, “Whoa. Internet access!” There were three photos attached. File names: elena1, elena2, and elena3. I...

That spring, I graduated with a degree in education and took my first job at an elementary school in a rural village, which I will leave nameless. It was sixty li from the county seat, up past two...

The sun was nearly down when at last she arrived back in Hamyang. After the journey, Kil-nyo was skin and bones and her clothes were little better than rags. She pushed open the gate and walked in to...

He heard the sound of a small bomb exploding. A BOOM―no, a BANG―no, it was like a gang of safe crackers tunneling into the earth finally demolishing a reinforced steel wall. It was like a plane...