A collection of short stories, this book takes a look at Korea in the last 70 years, by exploring the impact of events like the Korean War and its aftermath, the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee, the famine in North Korea, or the IMF Crisis. Lee does this by examining the plight of ordinary people whose lives are inescapably governed by circumstances mostly out of their control. Some of the stories are pretty heavy stuff in that the protagonists find themselves in horrific situations where their […]