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“Disappointed Love” by Hwang Seong-Hee
Cheolli-dong, Seoul Hostel. A wall with an unfamiliar face in a wanted poster delicately nailed to it. Stars made with blue cellophane stuck to the reception room door. A round, worn out woman…
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“Love for Skins” by Choi Moon-Ja
When you fall in love,it’s a blessing to have an outer skin:a blessing everyone looks down on.Tearing, twisting, scorching, splitting, digging up and burying,they think so awfully low of love, but love peeled of its skin is dead.Dying in white, black, and golden yellow hues.Once the peel is broken, the juice of untruth seeps outand once loved…
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“Salt Storehouse” by Song Chang-Ho
By asking around, I’ve come all the way to a salt storehousein search of the woman who ran off without repaying a debt.Not a single person insideand salt stopped being stored here a long ago,leaving it completely emptied. I already have a guessand it’s not that the owner of the storehouseflew off like a wind…
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“Land of Fire” by Nam Jin-Woo
The hair of the people in this country is turning into fire. They all walk with a blaze sprouted from their heads, and whenever anyone wants to light a cigarette or a fireplace, they simply tilt their heads rather than use a match. There is no need to be afraid walking a dimly lit path…
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“Lovers’ Number” by Kim Kyeong-Mi
When you enter that country it must be recorded.So that night the number of your entries and vinegar are mingled with more vinegar, then swallowed.It’s a night where the candle’s flame downs alcohol, then flares up.It’s a night where the black traces of tears trail down ears and past pillows. “Open the 非常時, please.” It’s a…
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“Fixing Sigma to Fireflies’ Light” by Kim Yeong-Nam
Ah, so someone who flickers is a difficulty! Like a math formula come to an unfamiliar place to solve your mathematical series, the functional relationship between your numbers is written in the air. As I lay stepping stones neatly along the boundary, the chirping of crickets weighs on the moon, making it converge with the…
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“Riddle” by Heo Soo-Kyeong
From the theatre, we left for a restaurantand placed food into mouths hanging on down-turned faces.From the restaurant, we went for a walk.All the stores were closed and all the bars too full to enter. Bye, let’s split up here now.Let’s just disappear like the wind.It’s like someone somewhere is butchering polar bears. Was there a…
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“Final Love Scene” by Hwang Myeong-Seung
In the hallway, there had hung a lone light bulb.We removed it and replanned the composition. In the pitch-blackness our lovers’ internal acting would have to unravel.They’d have to put in all their strength just as if there were tacks beneath their feet…… We needed more time, but the actors’ timecame to an end and…