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Introducing three poems from Kim Jong-gil's collection of poems [A Black Kite], we talk about life.

- [Spring Mud], [A Bicycle], [Back Home]

Translated by Brother Anthony of Taize and Kim Jong-gil

Introducing Kang Kyung-ae's short story [Mother and Child], we talk about parents.

Translated by Sora Kim-Russell

Introducing [The Mirror That Made Trouble] from Korean Fairy Tales, we talk about invention and change.

Adapted by William Elliot Griffis

Introducing three poems in Kim Seung-hee's collection of poems [Hope is Lonely], we talk about loneliness.

- [ONE WHITE FLATFISH LYING ON A WHITE DISH], [HOPE IS LONELY], [INSIDE, I'M A MATRYOSHKA DOLL]

Translated by Brother Anthony of Taize

Introducing Serang Chung's short story [Take My Voice], we talk about individual diversity and the pressures of living in society.

Translated by Anton Hur

Introducing Kim Tong-in's short story [Boat Song], we talk about the 10th anniversary of the Sewol ferry sinking.

Translated by Grace Jung

Introducing Gong Sun-ok's novel [People I Left in Shanghai], we talk about the Korean diaspora.

Translated by Jeon Seung-hee

Introducing Park Seonghwan's short story [Readymade Bodhisattva], we talk about AI robot.

Translated by Gord Sellar and Jihyun Park

Introducing three poems in Ku Sang's collection of poems [Infant plendor], we talk about religion in Korea.

Translated by Brother Anthony of Taize

Introducing the short story [Seed] from Bora Chung's collection of novels [Your Utopia], we talk about the power of science fiction as political protest.

Translated by Anton Hur