Exploring Korean society, culture and politics and highlighting critical, independent voices you won’t find anywhere else since 2014.
Hosted by Andre Goulet with assistant producer Gennie Kim Pimentel. Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/thekoreafile
Contemporary Literature and Translation in South Korea
On episode 110 hosts Andre Goulet and Gennie Pimentel welcome Shanna Tan, translator of the smash hit book WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/133938826)by Hwang Bo-reum.
In this conversation Shanna explains why a slice of life novel about a high-flying career woman in Seoul who leaves a life of burnout and marital misery to open a book shop outside of the city has become a massive international success in a conversation exploring the barbarity of life under late capitalism and the changing face of contemporary South Korean literature.
Find the book at your local library or independent bookstore and support this podcast at patreon.com/thekoreafile (https://www.patreon.com/thekoreafile)
17 Dec 2023
Motherhood, Revolution and Fairytales in North Korea
On episode 109 Dr. Theresa Hyun, a York University professor and the author of “Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Colonial Period (https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvvn6z3)”, joins hosts Andre Goulet and Gennie Pimentel to talk about children’s literature, fairy tales and the role of mothers in the North Korean revolution.
Plus: a surprising data set on the number of immigrant and multiethnic children who live outside of Seoul and a clip from episode 1 of the classic North Korean children's cartoon 'Squirrel and Hedgehog'.
Watch 'Squirrel and Hedgehog' here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGZD6P2bvEw).
Support the show at patreon.com/thekoreafile (https://www.patreon.com/thekoreafile)
18 Jul 2023
Migrant Workers and Immigration in South Korea
On episode 108 Seoul National University master's student An HaKyeng's joins hosts Andre Goulet in Montreal and Gennie Pimentel in Toronto for a conversation unpacking her research on the immigration experience for new arrivals, the challenges migrant workers face in South Korea, ethnonationalism, fertility rates, government policy and more.
Works cited in this episode:
Immigration in Japan and Social Mobility: Policies and Implications - HaKyeng An, Henry Cho, Wakana Moriguchi
Social capital and assimilation of migrant workers and foreign wives in South Korea: The case of Wongok community -
Jun Hee-jung Ha Seong-kyu
Creating hierarchies of noncitizens: race, gender,
and visa categories in South Korea - Erin Aeran Chung
The citizenship of foreign workers in South Korea - Seol Dong-hoon
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