Literature
My Korean Deli
Thursday, May 12, 2011 | 6:30 PM
Ben Ryder Howe, formerly of The Paris Review and a contributor to The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Outside, discusses his recently published memoir, My Korean Deli. Howe describes the trials and triumphs of his Korean-born wife’s decision to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. My Korean Deli follows the store's tumultuous life, and paints the portrait of an extremely unlikely partnership among characters from Brooklyn, Seoul,…
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Homer Hulbert: Crusader for Korea
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 | 6:30 PM
The Korea Society presents Dong Jin Kim, author of Crusader for Korea, a biography of Dr. Homer B. Hulbert (1863-1949), a “hidden hero” of Korean independence. The publication is the culmination of years of effort by the author to secure a proper place in Korean history for the accomplishments of foreigners, such as Dr. Hulbert, who lived their lives in the service of Korea. Wednesday, April 6 Homer Hulbert: Crusader…
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Please Look After Mom
Thursday, March 24, 2011 | 12:00 PM
Prof. Jin Young Choi speaks with author Kyung-sook Shin about her novel 'Please Look After Mom' March 24, 2011
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Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea
Thursday, November 29, 2007 | 6:30 PM
In 1993, Cullen Thomas was a young man who wanted to see the world and South Korea was one of his first stops. Convicted of smuggling hashish and sentenced to 3 ½ years in Korean prison, the world he ended up seeing—one in which the Confucian customs of Korean society take on a harsh character—wasn’t the one he expected. Reading from his new memoir Brother One Cell: An American Coming…
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