[KS] Alternate Pedigree of Korean American Literature

[sunyoung park]

Dear All,

if you're in Los Angeles next week, I'd like to cordially invite you to attend a literary event co-sponsored by the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles and the Unitersity of Southern California.

This public event, titled "An Alternate Pedigree of Korean and Korean American Literature," introduces the work of Nak Chung Thun, the forgotten Korean American writer who immigrated from the Pyeongan Province to Riverside, California and left 10,000 pages of novels, short stories, and essays that date back to 1917-1937. The event, which follows an international symposium on Thun's archive on 13th
https://dornsife.usc.edu/events/site/124/42032800371250/the-nak-chung-thun-archive-and-global-korean-literature/, is hosted by the KCCLA in commemoration of 120 years of Korean immigration the United States.

Below are the event details:
April 14 (Fri), 2023, 18:30-20:30
Ari Hall, KCCLA


6:30-7:00 pm Reception

7:00-7:10 pm Sangwon Jung (KCCLA Director), Congratulatory Remarks

7:10-7:15 pm Sunyoung Park, Opening Remarks

7:15-7:30 pm Kenneth Klein, “Rescuing Memory: Korean American Archives at USC”

7:30-7:45 pm Jae-moon Hwang, “An Editorial Overview of Nak Chung Thun’s Manuscripts”

7:45-8:10 pm Kyunghee Eo, selected bilingual readings of Thun’s translated stories and essays

8:10-8:30 pm Q & A moderated by Sunyoung Park


Presenters: Kyunghee Eo (Assistant Professor of Korean, University of Colorado Boulder); Jae-moon Hwang (Associate Professor in Korean Literature, Kyujanggak Institute at Seoul National University); Kenneth Klein (Former Director of USC’s East Asian Library); and Sunyoung Park (Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC)


Thanks for your attention,


Sunyoung Park






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