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The Korea Society is pleased to announce that the Eighth Annual Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture awardee is Dr. David Krolikoski, Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai’i. His lecture is titled The Politics of The Silence of Love in Colonial Korea.

In this lecture Dr. Krolikoski examines The Silence of Love (Nim ŭi ch’immuk, 1926), the acclaimed collection of eighty-eight poems by Han Yong-un (1879-1944). Although the book is commonly celebrated as a metaphor for colonial subjugation, Dr. Krolikoski complicates this established reading to argue that its artistic significance lies in Han’s paradigm-shifting use of colonial poetry as a medium of communal expression during a time of national crisis.

Further, he explores how Han uses fiction and symbols to collapse the boundary between private and public address, transmuting the individual voice of his poetic speaker into a platform for a community. Dr. Krolikoski also contextualizes The Silence of Love within the history of the translation of foreign poetic forms into Korea during the 1920s, with a focus on how Han incorporated elements from the lyric and prose poem into his verse. Dr. Emily Jungmin Yoon, author of Find Me as the Creature I Am (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024) and assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, will serve as moderator.

The Politics of The Silence of Love in Colonial Korea

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 6 PM (EST)

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For further information about the Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Award and their 2024 awardee & moderator, click here.