Yi Kwang-Su (1892-1950) has undisputedly produced some of the greatest literary works to ever come out of modern Korea. Here is a collection of his short stories, some of which have never before been published in English. He has written over twenty-eight novels, innumerable short stories, poetry collections, treatises, and countless commentaries from literature to art and science-not to mention culture and humanity-and published in all of the available paper media of his time in Korea. His writing style revolutionized Korean literature and the written language itself.

These stories abound...

Yi Kwang-Su (1892-1950) has undisputedly produced some of the greatest literary works to ever come out of modern Korea. Here is a collection of his short stories, some of which have never before been published in English. He has written over twenty-eight novels, innumerable short stories, poetry collections, treatises, and countless commentaries from literature to art and science-not to mention culture and humanity-and published in all of the available paper media of his time in Korea. His writing style revolutionized Korean literature and the written language itself. These stories abound...