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It was October 2025 when Yun Ko-eun and I met at Fairshot Café in Covent Garden. She greeted me with a polite but warm bow as if I was her long-time friend she hadn’t seen in a while.
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Baek Minseok, You Are Right Now and You Were Wrong Then Interview with Analrealists. July 8, 2015 6:00 PM – July 9 4:40 AM Translated by Mattho Mandersloot & Suhyun J. Ahn “I don’t like it when there’s no mushrooms.” Bak Solmay: How many meals do you have a day? Baek Minseok: One. Bak
Baek Minseok, You Are Right Now and You Were Wrong Then Interview with Analrealists. July 8, 2015 6:00 PM – July 9 4:40 AM Translated by Mattho Mandersloot & Suhyun J. Ahn 2. “Now that’s what we call a ‘flashtard’” Bak Solmay: So we actually divided the roles today. I was going to ask
Baek Minseok, You Are Right Now and You Were Wrong Then Interview with Analrealists. July 8, 2015 6:00 PM – July 9 4:40 AM Translated by Mattho Mandersloot & Suhyun J. Ahn 4. “One critic who’s brought up well is worth ten novelists.” Jeong Jidon: I read your novel with Han Ki in the
Baek Minseok, You Are Right Now and You Were Wrong Then Interview with Analrealists. July 8, 2015 6:00 PM – July 9 4:40 AM Translated by Mattho Mandersloot & Suhyun J. Ahn 6. “He’s still alive, that bastard. What do we do?” Baek Minseok: “A man who punches a woman can’t punch another man.”
In “Feminist Short Stories of Korea” (Winter 2018), Nabillera asked our writers five questions. How they did come to write the stories they shared with us? What do they think of the current wave of Korean feminism? What plans do they have for the future? Furthermore, we came up with specific questions about their writings. If you’re