Born in Seoul in 1922, Kim Ki-young graduated from the Dentistry School of Seoul National University. After working both as a performer and as director his own performances, he debuted as a film director in 1955 with "The Box of Death." This was followed by more than 30 film works, including "The Housemaid" (1960), "The Sea Knows" (1961), "Woman of Fire" (1971) and "Chungnyeo" (1972). A retrospective session of Kim's works was prepared for the 2nd Pusan International Film Festival, and with this event his unique works were rediscovered. Later, Kim's works gained a new group of exuberant fans...

Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon s short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka. Adopting strange, warped, unstable characters and drawing heavily on the literature of the absurd, Jung s stories nonetheless do not wallow in darkness, despair, or negativity. Instead, we find a world in which the bizarre and terrifying are often put to comic use, even in direst of situations, and point toward a sort of redemption to be found precisely in the weirdest and most unsettling...

Ch oe Yun s Mannequin is a novel that reflects on the meaning of beauty and its many facets of existence. The beauty of the main character, Jini, is captured through a carefree imagination that describes it as the music of the wind, or something that can t be described in words. Through the beauty that penetrates and captivates us in fleeting moments, the novel leads us to critically reflect on the question of what true beauty is in a world where people are captivated by the beauty of advertising models in a flood of new products. In that respect, Mannequin, as the title...