Ook Chung is a francophone Zainichi Korean writer based in Quebec who explores themes of exile, cultural dislocation, and linguistic hybridity. Often straddling autofiction and memoir, his writing interrogates how language and memory shape identity in diasporic contexts. His work, and his unique positionality as a Zainichi Korean writing in French, has contributed significantly to both Québécois and global francophone literatures.
What is your native tongue? For some families, the question of linguistic identity can be hard to answer.I come from a family of Korean ancestry. Yet I do not speak Korean. I was born in Japa…