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Copyright Notice: Copying or reproducing the images without permission from the author is strictly prohibited. I’m Deaf By Lyla Translated by Seth Warnick Episode 5 – Getting My Attention Lyla is a deaf Webtoon artist. She studied oriental painting at Seoul National University. Her webtoon I’m Deaf was serialised in Naver in 2015-2017. Her personal narrative, well embedded
Six Poems from Because in Unni’s World No One Withers By Kim Hee JoonTranslated by Archarna Madhavan and Jae Hyung Woo Dear Unni The yuchae flowers looked ready to bloom The April breeze was aquamarine Had you been using your fingers to write letters in the dirt You said you were drawing the bones of
Five Poems from I’m Only Alive When I’m Anxious By Ahn Joo CheolTranslated by Beth Hong A Child Holding a Child I’ve eaten at Paengmok Port I’ve eaten at Mokpo New Port Did I eat with a living person or with a dead person? Did I eat with a child? Or did their parents eat?
When the Paleolithic Diet is Back in Fashion By Song Ji HyunTranslated by Bryan Stubbles We saw the accident by chance. All coincidences happen that way, but it was a little unusual for us to suddenly want to drink beer at three in the morning. First of all, neither Bong-gyu nor I enjoyed alcohol; that
Two weeks after my second dose of vaccine, my then ten-month-old baby and I retreated to Incheon, my hometown in South Korea, reluctantly leaving my husband in London.
Five Poems from Nothing Will Change Although I Cry By Park Joon Translated by Beth Hong Some Words Don’t Die When I have a conversation with someone, I have a habit of trying hard to remember at least one sentence. “Bring some hot water” is the last thing I remember my maternal grandfather telling me.
At the Beginning of the Blizzard By Jang Hee WonTranslated by In Young Jung In that winter, Yeo Jung’s father invited us to visit. He had recently moved to a place in nature with fresh air and water. “I miss you,” he said suddenly, after asking this and that on the phone. Was that so?