![]() ![]() But such entitlement seems rebutted when a police officer in the book jails a protester and says, “Not everything is your plaything… Not everything belongs to you.” Calling the book a “Gatbsy”-esque takedown of 1970s South Korea, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee writes in The New York Times, “The year is 1978, and that protester is named Jisun, who, along with Namin and Sunam, is Wuertz’s literary conduit for 1970s Korean history-a time when President Park Chung-hee’s fixation on economic recovery after the Korean War entailed suppressing all forms of political dissent and allowing inhumane working conditions to flourish…. Its assuming tone of optimism suggests the aspirations of the book’s three main characters, all students at Seoul National University. ![]() ![]() The title of Yoojin Grace Wuertz’s Everything Belongs to US (Random House 2017) has a note of irony. $5 SUGGESTED DONATION | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ![]() Tammy Kim of The New Yorker editorial staff. Moderated by former AAWW Open City Fellow E. President Park Chung-hee’s 1970s authoritarian industrialization lays in the background of Wuertz’s novel, while Han’s flashes back to the student protests that helped inculcate Korean democracy. Both books follow university students, whether in the US and in Seoul, as they fall in love, build friendships, and understand how they relate to the turbulent changes in South Korean society. Join us for two Korean American novelists whose new novels interrogate 1970s and 1980s Korean politics: Jimin Han and Yoojin Grace Wuertz, both born in Seoul. ![]()
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