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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"After the most recent martial law proclamation, this constellation seems more luminous than usual—or has the sky just gotten darker?" Korean Cinema in the Times of Martial Law — @kimchimarx.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/05/06/k...

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Korean Cinema in the Times of Martial Law — Jawni Han

At 10:23 PM (KST) on December 3, 2024, citing alleged DPRK infiltration in the National Assembly, now-impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared emergency martial law. This was the fir…

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jawni han | 한겨울 @kimchimarx.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

My interview with Lee Chang-dong for your weekend reading! I got to ask him about his literary career on the occasion of the publication of “Snowy Day and Other Stories,” his first short story collection in English translation (by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Yoosup Chang) a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/cu...

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Lee Chang-dong's 'Snowy Day and Other Stories' uses the quotidian to express the totality of life

Lee Chang-dong newly translated short story collection is an illustrious introduction to his lesser known literary career.

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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

We are pleased to present a new column on international queer cinema. The first is from @kimchimarx.bsky.social on RESURRECTION OF THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL and how its accidental queerness unlocks new possibilities for Korean cinema and language. reverseshot.org/features/329...

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Resurrection of the Little Match Girl

This column focuses on the dynamic or below-the-surface nature of queer representation in international cinema.

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jawni han | 한겨울 @kimchimarx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

For Reverse Shot’s new column “Queer Radicals,” I wrote about Resurrection of the Little Match Girl and its star Jin Xing, a renowned transgender dancer from China. Jin’s presence expands the horizon of what queer korean cinema and language can be. reverseshot.org/features/329...

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Resurrection of the Little Match Girl

This column focuses on the dynamic or below-the-surface nature of queer representation in international cinema.

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jawni han | 한겨울 @kimchimarx.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Now on Mubi Notebook, Wang Bing in conversation with Jung Sung-il, one of Korea’s finest film critics. This interview delves deep into Dead Souls, documentarian ethics, and what it means to document survivors of history. Translation by yours truly! mubi.com/en/notebook/...

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Translation | Wang Bing: In the Same Place, at the Same Time

A conversation between friends, the Chinese documentarian and the Korean critic, in English for the first time.

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jawni han | 한겨울 @kimchimarx.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I reviewed Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs for Film Comment. A wonderful comedy about (mis)translation that relishes in the slipperiness of language and how it can help us unveil seemingly ineffable feelings

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