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Korean
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A dangerous psychopath's latest victim is the pregnant fiancée of elite special agent Soo-hyun. Obsessed with revenge, Soo-hyun is determined to track down the murderer, even if doing so means becoming a monster himself. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
2) The Host
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Korean
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A creature plunges from a bridge into the Han River, emerging on its shores for a feeding frenzy upon onlookers. When a young girl is snatched in the melee, her family sets off to recover her from the monster. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
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Korean
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An acclaimed documentary following the journey of a most extraordinary couple. Young-Chan is an accomplished poet who can no longer hear or see. He communicates with his wife Soon-Ho through finger braille, a unique form of communication where words are tapped on each other's hands. Combining breathtaking imagery with Young-Chan's personal writings, PLANET OF SNAIL becomes a transfixing portrait of life on what seems like another planet, where touch...
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Korean
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An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his bickering sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the...
5) Moebius
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Korean
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The husband. The wife. Their son. The atmosphere at home is ice cold - the husband distracted by an affair with a young woman. The wife sick of her husband's debauchery, and the teenage son indifferent to them both. Overwhelmed with hatred, the wife attempts to remove from the husband the organ driving his desires; thwarted, she instead takes out the violent act on the son and then disappears into the night. At the hospital, the husband is distraught...
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Korean
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In Korean.
This book [Soseol Boda: Spring 2022] is a three novel collection of the Munji Literature Award finalists. Soseol Boda selects novels of the season quarterly. The spring 2022 edition winners are Kim Byeong Woon, Wi Su Jeong and Lee Ju Hye. Interviews with each writer are included.
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Korean
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Jeong Bora, a representative Korean writer who broke into the final selection of the Booker International Award with this book and traversed the boundaries of genres, connected ten wonderful stories with "revenge" and "curse". In this lonely world, the way the ten protagonists relate to others is frustration, despair, anger, desire, betrayal, killing or being killed... With astonishing imagination, the author develops a story that replaces revenge...
Series
Chŏlmŭn Chakkasang susang chakp'umjip volume che 13-hoe (2022)
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Korean
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"Since its establishment in 2010, the Young Writers Award, which has been receiving enthusiastic support from the literature and readers over the years, celebrated its 13th anniversary. The winners of this year's Young Writers Award are Im Sol-ah, Kim Mela, Kim Byung-woon, Kim Ji-yeon, Kim Hye-jin, Seo Su-jin, and Seo Yi-je. In the midst of an unfinished pandemic, spring has come without fail, and seven stories that evoke a hopeful energy to take...
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Korean
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It's springtime in a small house floating on a small raft on a small lake, surrounded on all sides by steep walls of forest or stone, broken here and there by ravines. Old Monk lives here with his young apprentice. The lesson for Spring is about pain and guilt and conscience, Summer's the cruelty of desire, Autumn's about letting go of rage, and Winter's about penance and finding peace. And so Spring comes around again, and the cycle begins anew,...
10) Shiri
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Korean
Description
A phantom sniper is methodically assassinating key figures in a South Korean intelligence investigation. Special agent Ryu and his partner Lee suspect North Korea's most lethal female operative, Hee, as being responsible. When a security breach prompts the theft of a high-tech liquid explosive, CTX, from the South Korean authorities, Ryu and Lee are certain there's a mole within their ranks.
11) Blood rain
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Korean
Description
"Intelligent suspenseful serial murder hunt set in medieval Korea"--IMDb.com.
13) Planet of snail
Language
Korean
Description
Follows the lives of Korean poet Young-Chan Cho, who is both deaf and blind, and his wife Soon Ho. Focuses on the couple's use of touch to communicate.
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Piryongso kŏlchaksŏn sirijŭ volume 7
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Korean
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Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
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