David R. McCann
Editor’s Note, 7
Special Feature: Contemporary Korean Science Fiction
Haerin Shin
The Curious Case of South Korean Science Fiction: A Hyper-Technological Society’s Call for Speculative Imagination, 81
Kim Kyung-uk
Young Hearts Never Grow Old, 87
Kim Jung-hyuk
1F/B1, 111
Park Min-gyu
Road Kill, 135
Bae Myung Hoon
Art and the Acceleration of Gravity, 157
Han Yujoo
Is It Gravitation? Is It Repulsion?, 179
Images
Kim Young Jin
Hong Gildong P’ilsabon
Images
Fiction
Koh Jongsok
Excerpts from Tokko Chun, 13
Seo Hajin
At the Gunwale, 51
Special Feature: Hong Gildong
Minsoo Kang
Introduction to the Story of Hong Gildong, 221
The Story of Hong Gildong, 229
Minsoo Kang
Introduction to Shin Dong Wu’s Hong Gildong, 325
Shin Dong Wu
Comics: Hong Gildong, 328
Poetry
Moon In-soo
Five Poems, 45
(The Restaurant Chair; The Moon Drum; The Utmost End; The Lighthouse; Umbilical Cord)
Ko Hyŏng-ryŏl
Five Poems, 75
(Love; Like a Peng; No-Coverage Zone; To Poem That’s In No Way Quiet; By All Means, Grow Old Like Tree Roots! Self-portrait)
Choi Young-mi
Five Poems, 199
(11 O’Clock Sunday Morning; Dreams of Four Seasons; Seoul, June 2008; In the Subway: Yellow October; To Pigs)
2012 Sejong Writing Competition
Sijo Division Winners, 389
Winners, Hollister Rhone, Mary Liza Hartong, Alice Ra
Korean Literature from the Outside
Mo Yan
After Reading Selected Short Stories of South Chosŏn, 209
Another Perspective
David R. McCann
Kim Chi Ha’s Messed-Up Poems, 357
Rob Wilson
Waking to Global Capitalism in Seoul: Situating Korean Studies in the World, 371
Image Index, 391
Notes on Contributors
Contributors, 392