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What's pic related pumped out in terms of literature?
>>7835109
nothing
some of the most depressing literature this side of russia
fatherdubs
>>7835109
Some historical fiction about the Japanese occupation that's basically only worthwhile to a foreigner as a demonstration of what a national inferiority complex looks like.
>>7835109
You know how Asian kids get frustrated when they get an A-, and their parents make them kneel on rice when they find out?
Korea's govt is literally apoplectic with rage about Korea 1000 places out from the nobel, with one 80 year old dissident monk, Ko Un, who wrote about govt excesses that don't exist anymore being a possible, and he isn't appreciate or liked by the tiny percent of the Korean nation that reads. When he dies they have nothing, and the govt is starting to suggest the Nobel committee is racist (when in fact that is quite the opposite). Koreans just do t read and write, they consume SC and soap operas when they aren't involved in industry and stem academia. It is a lol worthy situation.
Good article on it.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/can-a-big-government-push-bring-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-to-south-korea
>>7835860
North korea will always be best korea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZiVWXjsaJg
They did create quite a neat little alphabet
>>7835860
>Ko Un
That's literally the only Korean person I know by name, and was about to suggest him.
The time is ripe for literature focusing on the internet and its consequences.
More than China, whose internet habits are as boorish as America's, or Japan, which is still essentially isolationist, Korea has the opportunity to produce a writer whose cultural background is one that is compact, versatile, efficient, and has broadly embraced globalization.
wasn't there some bundle of short stories smuggled out of DPRK some time ago?
Not sure if it's been translated/distributed yet
>>7836907
you have no idea what korean internet looks like do you? it makes flames and insults on other internets look like tumblr hugboxes. korean netizens are easily the harshest, most toxic posters in the world
>>7835537
>>7836920
>mfw every post on /lit/ is by someone from the tinychat
>>7836914
Yeah, it's in the process of being published. Sounds pretty interesting.
>>7835860
Nice. Thanks for the article anon.
>>7836914
OTT socialist realism from DPRK's late novelist laurate. pretty funny, actually
https://dprkcourse.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/han-sorya-jackals.pdf
>>7835860
>ko un
his books got like 50 ratings on goodreads, is he really their best writer? fucking meme country
>>7836916
Every culture has shitposters like that. But remember the Time 100 being vote swamped? S. Korea. Fastest internet connectivity? S. Korea. Highest percentage of internet users for its population? S. Korea. Japan's internet pales in comparison.
>>7836997
Their internet is isolation, too, though. It's all in Korean and you need a government ID to post in most places.
>>7837012
That's just a precaution to stifle trolls.
Problems make for good reading. The struggle for internet freedom is essential for the culture's discussion.
>>7837056
>That's just a precaution to stifle trolls.
Korean naïveté is so endearing.
>>7836997
And they use all that to play SC and watch shitty pop videos.
>>7835109
Well I mean... some stuff exists...
Nothing creative or entirely original.
I know very few Koreans who read, and they tend to read Western or Japanese lit.
It's a shame, they have such an easy writing system, tons of people would learn to read it if they had a generation of good writers.
>mfw reading this thread as a korean
great shame
Why would you need literature when you have superior kdramas
