David R. McCann
Editor’s Note, 7
Writer in Focus: Shin Kyung Sook
Shin Kyung Sook
The Strawberry Field, 11
Gabriel Sylvian
Interview with Shin Kyung Sook, 53
Fiction
Eun Hee Kyung
Beauty Looks Down on Me, 201
Jo Kyung Ran
My Purple Sofa, 233
Cheon Woon Young
Needle, 271
Pyun Hye-Young
To the Kennels, 307
Special Feature: Inside North Korea
Heinz Insu Fenkl
Inside North Korea, 73
looking in
graphic novel
Guy Delisle
Excerpt from Pyongyang, 77
fiction
Hyejin Kim
Excerpt from Jia, 95
photography
Peter Sobolev
DPRK, May 2004, 134
from the inside
comic book
Cho Pyŏng-kwŏn & Rim Wal-yong
Excerpt from Great General Mighty Wing, 113
poetry
O Yŏng-jae
Oh, My Mother; Oh, My Mother—Her Voice, 149
Li Chong-dŏk
If I Truly Meet Mother Unexpectedly, Dandelions, 163
Chŏn Pyŏng-gu
Falling Persimmons, 193
fiction
Hong Sŏk-chung
Excerpt from Hwang Chin-i with an Introduction by Bruce Fulton, 153
Ch’oe Ryŏn
Make the Ocean Blue, 167
Another Perspective
David R. McCann
Korean Literature and Performance? Sijo!, 359
Yi Sang
Lingering Impressions of a Mountain Village—A Few Paragraphs from a Journal of Travels to Sŏngch’ŏn, 331
John M. Frankl
Marking Territory: Writing against Nation-based Identity in Yi Sang’s “Lingering Impressions of a Mountain Village”, 347
Poetry
Chong Hyon-jong
Splendor—Buds, My Mind’s Ruin, This Time without Bottom or End, At Dawn, Unbearable, 195
Yi Seong-Bok
about time; that fall; South Sea, Silk Mountain; Music; excursion, 63
Jang Jung Il
Hiding in an Underpass, A Meditation on Hamburgers, The Cook and the Anorexic, Love in Germany, Catching a Taxi in Kiran, 253
Ra Hee-Duk
Death by exposure, Half moon, Flowers underground, Five minutes, A seven-year-old reading, 325
Korea from the Outside
Yu Hua
Korea’s Eyes, 377
Images
Image Index, 386
