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Articles by Kwon Yeo-sun
Spring Night (봄밤) screens at ICA
Dir: Kang Mi-ja (2024, 67 mins) Cast: Kim Seol-jin, Han Ye-ri Date: Friday 23 May - Thursday 29 May 2025 Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts | The Mall | Westminster | London SW1Y 5AH | www.ica.art | [Map] Tickets: £14.00 | Get tickets here Yeong-gyeong first meets Su-hwan at a wedding party. She is an alcoholic and he suffers from chronic arthritis. He carries her home after she passes out drunk, in an act of lissom grace.
“Lemon” by Kwon Yeo-sun: a beautiful, dark and thought-provoking novel
This is a new feature in The Statesman that will review books in a unique way. Rather than the staid, straightforward critical reviews that you would typically find in The New York Times, this new approach will be breezy and more conversational but still offers a critical lens of the book. Happy reading! I recently finished reading “Lemon” by South Korean author Kwon Yeo-sun, and I must admit the book left me mesmerized for days.
International Reads for Summer 2023 📖 - Web-Translations
If you’re anything like us at Web-Translations, then you’re probably a little bit flummoxed to learn that today is the first day of summer. Yes, it seems like yesterday when we were welcoming in the new year and making resolutions that we were confident we would keep. The year has flown by and whilst we might not have kept all of our resolutions (after all, who actually does?) we certainly have been working hard and been busy developing lots of exciting new projects.
[New in Korean] Memory and insomnia echo through 'Each and Every Season'
"Each and Every Season" (working title) By Kwon Yeo-sun Munhakdongne Publishing Several years ago, Kwon Yeo-sun, residing at a writers’ residence in Wonju, Gangwon Province, overheard a memorable dialogue between a fellow writer and the residence’s security guard.
Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun, translated by Janet Hong
Originally published in 2019 as 레몬 English translation first published in 2021 In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, eighteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High School Beauty Murder. Two suspects quickly emerge: rich kid Shin Jeongjun, whose car Hae-on was last seen in, and delivery boy Han Manu, who witnessed her there just a few hours before her death.
Four Brief Reviews
My reading lately has been so good! Here are four books I particularly enjoyed: SoundMachine by Rachel Zucker (Wave Books, 2019) I picked up this book thinking I was getting poetry, and … I’m not sure what I got, although I loved it, whatever it is. The pieces in this book are poetic but without line breaks; they are essayistic, but not exactly written in straightforward prose.
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Editors' Choice Nov. 24, 2021 Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers. Here are eight books to be grateful for, wherever you are: New poetry collections from the great Patrick Rosal and Frank Bidart, novels about the lives (and deaths) of women in North Dakota and South Korea, a posthumous spy story from the beloved John le Carré.
Adding Surprise to Your Reading Life
read like the wind Our critic recommends old and new books. Nov. 20, 2021, 7:58 a.m. ET Credit..."Santa Rufina" by Diego Velázquez Hello friends, Welcome to Read Like the Wind. If you are following this newsletter from its previous iteration, please loosen your belt and make yourself comfortable. If you are new, welcome! (You may also loosen your belt.) I’m Molly Young, a book critic at The New York Times, and this is a newsletter of book recommendations.
Book review: Woman seeks answers 17 years after sister's murder in 'Lemon'
Book review: Woman seeks answers 17 years after sister's murder in 'Lemon' Lemon By DAN DERVIN FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR As I recall psychological theory, we tend to cope with the vacuum of personal loss by incorporating some crucial aspect of the jeopardized attachment, thereby keeping the other alive by making him or her part of oneself. It could be an article of clothing, a treasured memory, etc.
A Virgin Homicide as Told by the Girls She Left Behind
Fiction Oct. 25, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET LEMON By Kwon Yeo-sun Translated by Janet Hong Kim Hae-on is beautiful, young, female — and dead. It is the summer of 2002, the FIFA World Cup draws to a close and Hae-on’s body is discovered in the flower bed of a park in Seoul. At first glance, Kwon Yeo-sun’s “Lemon” appears to be your typical whodunit; much of its first chapter is dedicated to an interview between detective and suspect. But then Kwon directs the reader’s attention elsewhere.
Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun
LoveReading Expert Review of Lemon This fascinating, psychologically astute vignette about grief, blame and searching for the truth delivers piercing emotional depth in unique and elegant style. Taking in the absurdities of life, misfortune and tragedy, Kwon Yeo-sun’s Lemon is an engaging, read-in-one-sitting novella of remarkable intensity.
Washington Independent Review of Books
The murder of a high-school student changes the trajectory of three women’s lives. It wasn’t too long ago that South Korea was a country in ruins, with a population living in poverty. Over the course of various American-backed military dictatorships, the country emerged as an economic powerhouse, becoming the world’s 11th-largest economy. Inevitably, income disparity flourished, and the issue has reached crisis proportions.
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