Eun-Gwi Chung

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Eun-Gwi Chung earned her PhD in poetics from the University at Buffalo and is a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea, which supported this essay by a research grant. Her translations of poetry have been published in more than thirty books to date, including Washing a Myna (2024).

Language of White Bones: The Secrets of Han Kang’s Poetic Prose

January 2025
Eun-Gwi Chung
Photo of Han Kang by Paik Dahuim / Courtesy of Natur & Kultur Like a clutch of words strewn over white paper. Seoul, which I had last seen in summer, had frozen. Turning to look behind me,…
Language of White Bones: The Secrets of Han Kang’s Poetic Prose

December 6, 2024 Eun-Gwi Chung
Photo of Han Kang by Paik Dahuim / Courtesy of Natur & Kultur Like a clutch of words strewn over white paper. Seoul, which I had last seen in summer, had frozen. Turning to look behind me,…
“Tough as Ox Tendons”: Korean Literature and Returning Catastrophe

March 2017
Eun-Gwi Chung
www.flickr.com/people/limone51After you died, I couldn’t hold a funeral, so my life became a funeral.After you were wrapped in a tarpaulin and car…
Why Say Goodbye: Reterritorializing Working-class Literature in Contemporary Korea

November 2013
Eun-Gwi Chung
Evening TimeHa Jong-o On the subway at evening rush hourI called my wife to say I was on my way home.Hearing a familiar voice, I looked round,among the exhausted people on their way home,an…