{"id":284116,"date":"2011-04-30T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/04\/30\/pen-contemporary-writing-from-korea\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:23:54","slug":"pen-contemporary-writing-from-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/04\/30\/pen-contemporary-writing-from-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN: Contemporary Writing from Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where: Asia Society, 725 Park Ave., New York City<\/p>\n<p>Join us to crack the code to the cryptic, suspenseful world of acclaimed young South Korean novelist Kim Young-ha, author of <em>Your Republic is Calling You<\/em>, a taut political thriller that spans the course of a single day in the life of a North Korean spy suddenly called back by his handlers after decades of undercover life in South Korea. Kim is paired with another master of the 21st-century literary whodunit, Susan Choi, the award-winning novelist and author of <em>A Person of Interest<\/em>, who brings her distinctive lens to bear on the mysteries of the immigrant search for identity. Distinguished translator and editor, Bruce Fulton (trans., <em>Hwang Sunwon<\/em>, <em>Lost Souls<\/em>; <em>The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea<\/em>; ed., <em>The Acta Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea<\/em>) invites Kim and Choi to share their take on spies, cinema, and a bold new wave of Korean literature in translation.<\/p>\n<p>With Susan Choi, Kim Young-ha, and Bruce Fulton<\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public. No reservations required.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by Asia Society and the Korean Cultural Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: Asia Society, 725 Park Ave., New York City Join us to crack the code to the cryptic, suspenseful world of acclaimed young South Korean novelist Kim Young-ha, author of Your Republic is Calling You, a taut political thriller that spans the course of a single day in the life of a North Korean spy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344666,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284116\/revisions\/344666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}