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Helena Goos

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A Korean poet presents queerness as something natural, strange and assumed

Syntax that seems like mistranslation gives way to a psychedelic atmosphere, like a queer Alice in Wonderland. Up is down, down is up, the Earth is a mass crematorium for androids. The author seems bent on...

A valuable history of the Gwangju Uprising

There have been only a few times that I remember hearing about Korean politics in American media. The most recent was the North Korean missile crisis of 2017-2018 where all my friends made jokes...