The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult,… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave. — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers.… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
In 2013, Samsung accounted for about 20 percent of South Korea's total business profits. Samsung Electronics, just one of scores of subsidiaries, accounts for… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be. — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Here's a question we all ask ourselves at least once when we're young: Where does that starlight come from? It's been there before I… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and later 'The… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground. — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
