Special Issue: KOREA (#60)

A Passionate & Beautiful Energy
Robert Fouser
6 Korea’s Key Role in East Asia and Beyond: The far ranging perspective of Lee O-young
Interview by John Einarsen
12 To the Sea in Ships
Photos by Drayton Hamilton; text by Donald Kirk
16 South of the Border: Consumed by Divisions
Donald Kirk
20 Pain and Truth: A Pilgrimage with some Korean poets
Brother Anthony of Taizé
28 Amidst Skyscrapers, Mountain-spirits Flourish
David A. Mason
32 KO UN: Human Nature Itself is Poetic
Pat Donegan interviews Poet Ko Un
40 If You Were Korean Cinema
Adam Hartzell
44 Korean Protest Culture
Gabriele Hadl
49 Seeing the Invisible: Women’s Fiction in South Korea Today
Bruce Fulton
53 IN TRANSLATION: The Woodcutter and the Nymph
Fiction by Sa Ha-jin
59 Mad Women 2004
Photographs by Park Young-soon
60 Masks
Photographs by Koo Bohn-chang
66 Peace Masks
Myong-Hee Kim
69 Connecting Heaven and Earth
Photographs by Bae Bien-u
72 Lessons Where Rivers Meet: Interview with Father Paul Moon on Saeman’gum
John Einarsen
74 The Kim Cult
Jane Portal
78 A Harmony Beyond Control: Yoon Kwang-cho on living with clay
Robert Kowalczyk and Myong-hee Kim
82 Breath & Movement Deeply Felt
Pat Donegan interviews Korea’s Nijinsky, Sun Ho Kim
84 Generational Tensions: Yu Young-nan on translation & women writers
Interview by John Einarsen
87 Punk as a Skunk
Stephen Epstein, photos by Jon Dunbar (see http://www.indecline.net/korea/)
90 A New Division of Labor: Facing Global Capitalism
Photos by Drayton Hamilton; text by Kwan Hee-jong
92 Korea’s Lost Beeper Language
David M. Lenard
93 Korea Strengthens “Media Democracy”
Jo Dong-won
95 Instant Communication Frenzy
Yang Sung-jin
96 Korean Film
Mark Russell
98 Reviews


KOREA ONLINE:

An Interview with Lee Jae-bong
John Einarsen
Panmunjom
A Short Story by Lee Ho-chul
DMZ Diary: Surviving the Future Past Tense
Lauren Deutsch
The Thing About Korea is....
Jenny Hall
Strategies of a Non-Native Translator
Yu Young-nan


Further reading from back issues:

Dear Leader
Russell Working (a Pushcart Prize nomination from KJ# 52)

Looking for No Gun Ri
by Valerie Perry (from KJ #49)

I Spy: Learning from Pyongyang TV
by Philip J. Cunningham (from KJ #46, Media in Asia)