The Story of Hong Gildongis arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. A fantastic story of adventure, it has been adapted into countless movies, television shows, novels, and comics in Korea. Until now, the earliest and fullest text of this incredible fable has been inaccessible to English readers.
Minsoo Kang is an associate professor of European history at University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Sublime Dreams of Living Machines- The Automaton in the European Imagination and coeditor of Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830-1914- Modernity and the Anxiety of Representation in Europe. He is also the author of a short story collection, Of Tales and Enigmas.
Half fairy tale, half social protest novel, The Story of Hong
Gildong is nothing less than the story of modern Korea itself
*Washington Post*
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