Presented By: Nam Center for Korean Studies
The Kwangju Massacre after Thirty-Five Years: The Politics and Poetics of Witnessing
A Conversation with South Korean Writers Lim Chul-woo and Han Kang
In May, 1980, hundreds of civilians protesting South Korea's military dictatorship were massacred in the city of Kwangju. The violence occasioned a turn toward radicalization in South Korea's long struggle for democracy.
Approaching the event's thirty-fifth anniversary, acclaimed writers LIM CHUL-WOO and HAN KANG will read from their works of fiction about the Kwangju Massacre: "The Red Room" (1988) and The Boy (2014). Readings will be followed by a cross-generational conversation on the writer's craft in the age of state terror, and the meanings of Kwangju past and present.
The event will be conducted in Korean with English interpretation.
Approaching the event's thirty-fifth anniversary, acclaimed writers LIM CHUL-WOO and HAN KANG will read from their works of fiction about the Kwangju Massacre: "The Red Room" (1988) and The Boy (2014). Readings will be followed by a cross-generational conversation on the writer's craft in the age of state terror, and the meanings of Kwangju past and present.
The event will be conducted in Korean with English interpretation.
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