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Tag: korea
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People are beautiful
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Sparrow dabang (참새 다방)
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Yi Sang (1910–37) was an avant-garde Korean poet. I wrote this poem after visiting Yi Sang House in Seoul as part of the Cordite poets’ tour in 2011. Read the Hangul version, ‘참새 다방’.
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Cordite 35.1: Oz-Ko (Hoju-Hanguk)
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Cordite Poetry Review No. 35.1: Oz-Ko (Hoju-Hanguk) Poetry editor: David Prater Hangul translations: 김재현 (Kim Gaihyun) and 김성현 (Kim Sunghyun) Released: 1 May 2011 Cover image: Ivy Alvarez Pandora archive (NLA)
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Third impressions of Korea
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I took these photos during the Cordite poets’ tour of Korea in 2011.
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Cordite 35.0: Oz-Ko (Envoy)
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Cordite Poetry Review No. 35.0: Oz-Ko (Hoju-Hanguk) Poetry editor: David Prater Released: 1 April 2011 Cover image: Ivy Alvarez Pandora archive (NLA)
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Interviewing Ko Un
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One of the highlights of my second Asialink residency in Seoul in 2009 was my meeting with poet Ko Un.
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Cranes of Hyang Il-am 2
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Hyang Il-am hermitage, ROK.
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Steam (Redux)
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All about Steam
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Philippe Gigantés on Korean fighting cocks
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In Korea, cocks are allowed to fight till they kill one another, and to egg them on to greater excitement red pepper is rubbed into their eyes. Newly born calves are allowed to spend the night in the open at 70 degrees below zero. Many die. The puppy which grows as the children’s pet is…
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Turtles for Myron Lysenko
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Written at Hyang Il-am temple, Yeosu, Republic of Korea
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(Neo) New Cheorwon
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Actually, it’s Sokcho but WGAF.
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Lee Si-woo on history, tragedy and the DMZ
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History is always cruel to the defeated because it belongs to the victor. History offers a future to the latter, but tragedy to the former. In spite of this, tragedy is beautiful because a solution presupposes the problem that caused the loser to lose, and because as the saying goes, human beings present only those…
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Sunshine for Kim Dae-jung
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Kim Dae-jung, a former President of the Republic of Korea (1998–2003), and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died on 18 August 2009. This poem was first published in Jacket2 (USA, 2012). Läs på svenska.
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How to get to (and from) Muuido
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In 2009, during my Asialink residency in Seoul, me and a bunch of others decided to make the journey to Muuido, an island near Incheon airport. Well, it seemed like it was ‘near’. We ended up on the beach at the top right of the map near Silmido. Couldn’t get to Silmido itself because of…
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White Tiger: How I got my Korean name
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“Hear me roar …”