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> What international audiences and readers are seeing is not the violence of Korea. Korea is merely a window that illuminates the universality of violence and the universal violence of the modern world.
> To talk of violence is not only to act as a witness of history or a whistleblower of reality. Within that story is the power to move reality through healing.

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bsmall2Dec 10, 2024

> “victory narrative” has ignored and suppressed the truth that Korea’s modern history and contemporary society is filled with brutal violence and unhealed wounds. To acknowledge such violence and wounds would be to mar the “K-model,” which seeks the world’s praise and recognition, and sully the image of a “1st Place Korea.”

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/english_editorials/1164182.html
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[Column] In Korean contexts, Han Kang highlights universality of violence, trauma

The world is tuning into the Korean experience, a condensation of the lights and shadows of modernity, a world of contradictory facets that are inseparable from each other

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