Kyung-Sook Shin with Jenny Wang Medina
The Korea Society
The Role of Father in Korean Literature
There's a chapter called, I don't know if it was the exact translation, but it's about telling stories about him and him is the father. And so we're trying to learn about what kind of word did they go through and endure? In Korean literature, actually, the typical image of father or the role of a father in Korean literature used to be a father who is very chauvinistic,. So that kind of father did exist in Korean literature. Jenny briefly mentioned about female writers in Korea and also about feminism.
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