Kim Kyung-uk

Kim Kyung-uk
Hangeul	김경욱
Revised Romanization	Gim Gyeong-uk
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Kyŏnguk
See also : Korean name

Kim Kyung-uk (* 1971 in Kwangju ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Towards the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s , the so-called New Generation - the generation born in the 1970s - denied the prevailing conservative establishment and intellectual climate. It was a generation unknown to organized resistance, and who became known for expressing themselves in an improvised manner. It grew up in a culture of consumption. At that time, a writer was making his debut in his early twenties. His name is Kim Kyung-uk.

His first short story Outsider (아웃 사이더), published as a student in 1993, follows a first-person narrator who drives past several stops on the Seoul subway, recalling memories of a student he used to teach. While the narrator depicts the expressions of anonymous masses in the urban underground world, he is constantly thinking about film scenes and excerpts from pop music . Kim's first novel Acropolis (아크로 폴리스) depicts life on the university campus in the early 1990s , when students' interest in ideological issues suddenly waned. In his works, Kim focuses on the so-called 1990s generation and the culture that dominated this time.

Not only does Kim have a keen interest in music, he has also published many works in keeping with this visual era that express his interest in films and his cinematic imagination. In fact, the title comes his first short stories -Sammelbandes There is no coffee in Bagdad Café (바그다드 카페 에는 커피 가 없다) of the series Bagdad Café by Percy Adlon from. The cover story from the anthology is about a deputy film director who meets a woman while searching for suitable locations. The title of his novel Morrison Hotel (모리슨 호텔) alludes to the album of the rock band The Doors and its short story collections Who Only Killed Kurt Cobain? (누가 커트 코베인 을 죽였는가) and Leslie Cheung is dead? (장국영 이 죽었다고) have their titles from Kurt Cobain , the frontman of the band Nirvana , who symbolizes the nineties , and from the Hong Kong film star Leslie Cheung . It is noteworthy that both Jim Morrison , the singer of the band The Doors, Kurt Cobain and Leslie Cheung committed suicide.

In his more recent work, Kim's fiction moves away from the realm of contemporary culture. He published the novel The Golden Apple (황금 사과), which is based on Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose , and the novel Millennium (천년 의 왕국), which is about the Dutchman Weltevree, who stranded on the coast of Chosŏn in 1627 .

Work

Korean

Anthologies

• 바그다드 카페 에는 커피 가 없다 There is no coffee in the Baghdad Café (1996)
• 베티 를 만나러 가다 I'm Going to Meet Betty (1999)
• 누가 커트 코베인 을 죽였는가 Who only killed Kurt Cobain? (2003)
• 장국영 이 죽었다고? Leslie Cheung is dead? (2005)
• 위험한 독서 Dangerous Reading (2008)
• 신 에게는 손자 가 없다 God Has No Grandchildren (2011)

Novels

• 아크로 폴리스 Acropolis (1995)
• 모리슨 호텔 Morrison Hotel (1997)
• 황금 사과 The golden apple (2002)
• 천년 의 왕국 Millennial Empire (2007)
• 동화 처럼 Like in a fairy tale (2010)
• 야구 란 무엇 인가 What is baseball? (2013)

Translations into German

• What? Leslie Cheung is dead? . Edition Delta, Stuttgart 2019 (original title: 장국영 이 죽었다고? , Translated by Hyuk-Sook Kim and Manfred Selzer), ISBN 978-3-927648-67-8 .

Awards

• 2004: 한국 일보 문학상 ( Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize )
• 2007: 현대 문학상 ( Hyŏndae Literature Prize )
• 2009: 동인 문학상 ( Tongin Literature Prize )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 김경욱 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 4, 2014 
2. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 김경욱 Retrieved February 4, 2014 (Korean)
3. ↑ Author Database of LTI Korea: Kim Gyeong Uk ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 4, 2014 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Kyung-uk is the first name.