David R. McCann
Editor’s Note, 5
Writer in Focus: Haïlji
Haïlji
Excerpt from The Statement, 9
Haïlji
Excerpt from The Užupis Republic, 35
Minsoo Kang and Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton
Interview with Haïlji, 55
Haïlji
Excerpts from “Author’s Note” in From the Crossroads to the Racetrack (Kyŏngmajang ŭn negŏri esŏ), 1991, 65
Fiction
Pyun Hye-Young
The First Anniversary, 97
Han Kang
Excerpt from The Vegetarian, 117
Gong Sun Ok
The Cheerful Night Road, 171
Yun Young-su
Secret Lover, 191
Special Feature: Poems by Ki Hyŏng-do
Another Perspective
Peter H. Lee
The Road to Ch’unhyang: A Reading of the Song of the Chaste Wife Ch’unhyang, 257
On Cinema
Kyung Hyun Kim
Death, Eroticism, and Virtual Nationalism in the Films of Hong Sangsoo, 135
Poetry
Kim Hyesoon
The Horizon; Flu; Starfish; Seoul, Kora; Sand Woman; In the Oxymoronic World (essay), 241
Korea from the Outside
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Extreme east, Extreme west (an historico-dream poem); Unjusa, Autumn Rain, 69
Images
Portraits, 8, 68, 134, 170, 250
Photographs, 34, 64, 78, 116
Atta Kim
Photographs, 193
Image Index, 377