
Kim Yeong-Hyeon
김영현
“When the folks from the city see winter fields, they’ll think they’re all dead. Sure, there’s nothing to see out there. But farmers don’t see them as dead. They see them as resting. What I mean is that with enough sunlight and the right temperature, all sorts of plants will sprout up, like a crowd cheering, from the land that looked completely dead.” (Podonamujip Punggyeong [Landscape of the House with Grapevines]. Bookfolio, 2003)
Kim Yeong-hyeon is a writer of novels, poetry, essays, and children’s books who looks back on the intense social movements in Korea during the 1980s, yet seeks to carry forward the progressive critical awareness of that period into the changed realities of the present day.