- A harrowing portrait of love and desire, BAD GUY is situated deep in Seoul's seedy nightlife. Differing strains of the story follow various people inexorably caught up in an underground existence that exercises a vice-like grip over their every action; a pimp forces a prostitute to live in her booth, then falls in love with her by watching her activities behind a two-way mirror; a murderer see
From the children of a dwarf whose house is torn down by the government to a young man selling his blood for money, the first-person narrators of the stories collected in The Voice of the Governor-General and Other Stories of Modern Korea take us into the heart of turbulent twentieth-century Korean history. This history includes colonization by the Japanese, the devastation of the Korean War, and a program of rapid industrialization that exacted the heaviest sacrifice from those already at the ! economic and political margins of society.
The title story, chillingly told in the voice of the former Japanese governor-general of Korea who dreams of the day when the Japanese empire will flourish again, is a disturbingly acute diagnosis of a society in transition. Throughout these stories we witness the reality of division in Korea and the alienation of man in a society of machines in parallel tales of displaced old men. We experience powerful accounts, from the inside, of people whose lives have been overlooked in the drive for progress. A sense of aloofness in one story contrasts with the bitter humor of another, highlighting the despair of the survivors. This volume is a startling blend of satire, realism, and comedy in the twentieth century.
"The works [of these authors], as expressions of society in the pangs of modernization and industrialism, are indispensable for understanding modern Korean literature as well as modern Korean history, an! d also present exemplary case studies for many other societie! s under the compounded pressure of dictatorship, capital industrialism and imperialism throughout the world. . . .
"Chun Kyung-Ja, the expert translator . . . whose Peace Under Heaven I consider to be one of the best translations from modern Korean literature, has done an invaluable service in making these stories available to English-speaking readers."
â€" from the Introduction by Kim UchangThis digital document is an article from Bioinformation, published by Biomedical Informatics Publishing Group on January 1, 2008. The length of the article is 892 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: Keywords: gene index; EST CONTIGS; identifier EST; database
Citation Details
Title: PlantGI: a database for searching gene indices in agricultural plants deve! loped at NIAB, Korea.(Web Database)(National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology)(Plant Gene Index)(Report)
Author: Chang Kug Kim
Publication: Bioinformation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Biomedical Informatics Publishing Group
Page: 344(2)
Article Type: Report
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage LearningNIGHTMARE (HORROR GAME MOVIE) - DVD MovieRemarkable acting, striking visuals, and dead-on direction from Kim Ki-Duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring; The Isle) make BAD GUY an edgy tour de force. Kim submerges the audience in the underground world of Seoul's red-light district and takes them on a surrealistic, darkly romantic ride. It depicts the relationship between a young college girl forced into prostitution and the pimp who orchestrated her demise and silently watches from behind a false mirror.
