Imagine if the messenger of God who came to the Virgin Mary was not the winged angel Gabriel, but “seonnyeo,” a fairy-like being from East Asian folk tales. And what if baby Jesus Christ was born in a stable during the 1392-1910 Joseon Kingdom, surrounded by women clad in “hanbok” (traditional Korean attire), instead of in a manger in Bethlehem?
[INTERVIEW] The climate crisis has already brought us halfway to an apocalyptic society
Posted : 2021-04-22 09:17
Updated : 2021-04-22 10:06
Kim Ki-chang s new short story collection in the climate fiction genre, Love in the Time of Climate Change, was published on April 2. Courtesy of Minumsa
Kim Ki-chang, author of Love in the Time of Climate Change, pushes readers to feel climate crisis effects
By Ko Dong-hwan
Novelist Kim Ki-chang believes that the world today is anything but predictable because of all the extreme weather phenomena around the planet ― collectively known as the climate crisis. Our daily lives, he says, are instead irregular, risky and unstable.