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The new facility, which is expected to be completed in 2026, will house about 120,000 literary artifacts, with a focus on past and future, a place symbolising the “hallyu”, the South Korean cultural wave that has made Korean literature, along with K-pop music and K-dramas, known the world over. ....
2021/02/19 Based on the 1987 book of the same name by Yi Mun-yol, Our Twisted Hero proves that using allegory to portray political commentary can result in excellent films, particularly when the metaphor works as well as in the case of The story is told by a man in his 40s, Han Byeong-tae, who is about to attend a class reunion, and begins recalling his memories from when he was attending the 5th and part of the 6th grade during the 50s. As the film begins, Byeong-tae moves with his family from Seoul to a small town, following his father s relegation after an incident that is mentioned just briefly. In there, he attends the local elementary, all-boys school, where he meets the class s monitor, Eom Seokdae, who, under the lazy lenience of the homeroom teacher, has established a system that has essentially deemed him the ultimate leader of the classroom.. Violence seems to be a constant factor in the class, but every student obeys Seok-dae in all aspects, giving him ....
2021 ONTD Reading Challenge Around the World [JANUARY - SOUTH KOREA] Hello everyone! Hope you are ready to get started on the 2021 ONTD Reading Challenge! Our January month is South Korea. So many interesting and original works from Korea have been translated in the past few years (lucky for us), so we have a lot of great options for this challenge and no excuses not to give it a try! A quick announcement: the Goodreads group WILL still be updated, thanks to the very kind ONTDers patchsassy. So if you like to keep track of your challenge over there, you can :) ....