[KS] Out Now! Dawn of Labor by Park Nohae (Univ Hawaii Press)

[Cheehyung Harrison Kim]

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Out Now! *Dawn of Labor* *노동의 새벽* by *Park Nohae* *박노해*
University of Hawaii Press 2024

*Translated by Brother Anthony **안선재** and Cheehyung Harrison Kim **김지형*
*With essays by Janet Poole and Brother Anthony.*
*Includes all the poems in Korean.*
*Includes a lengthy glossary to provide finer meaning and historical
contexts.*
Cover image by the the legendary woodblock artist *Oh Yoon **오윤*.

Go here to order your copy! *https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/dawn-of-labor/
<https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/dawn-of-labor/>*
Use the code *AAS2024* for a 30% discount

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The Center for Korean Studies and the University of Hawaii Press are
delighted to announce the English-language publication of *Dawn of Labor *노동의
새벽. *Dawn of Labor *is part of the "Hawaii Studies on Korea" Book Series
(edited by C. Harrison Kim). Originally published in 1984, *Dawn of
Labor* pierced
the heart of an era. Despite a ban by the authoritarian government, the
collection sold a million copies and left an indelible mark in Korea’s
literary history. Park Nohae, then a twenty-seven-year-old factory worker,
wrote the manuscript with pencil on tissue paper, and a literary critic
published it without revealing the identity of the author. The literary
world was instantly ignited by the book’s vivid portrayal of the screams of
ten million workers, a group all but forgotten by the Korean society at
large. Park Nohae was soon wanted by the police, and this situation turned
him into the faceless poet. Many college students read his poems and gave
up their privileges, entering the factories as disguised workers and
building a wave of workplace struggles. Four decades after its first
publication, *Dawn of Labor* is once again showing us the power of poetry.

*Park Nohae* is South Korea’s most acclaimed activist poet. *Dawn of Labor*,
his first poetry collection, was published in 1984. Park Nohae wrote these
poems in his twenties as a factory worker having come to Seoul from the
countryside, as millions of others had done at the time. Throughout the
1980s, he was a revolutionary fighting against South Korea’s military
dictatorship, for which he was imprisoned in solitary confinement for seven
years. Having vowed to “not live today by selling the past,” he has forged
his own path of activism. With the founding of the organization Nanum
Munhwa (Culture of Sharing) in 2000, he has documented, with pen and
camera, people living in places that do not appear on maps. The fearless
critique and revolutionary vision of *Dawn of Labor* continue to resonate
in all his works.

*Brother Anthony of Taizé*, who also goes by his Korean name *An Sonjae 안선재*,
is a literature scholar and translator and is professor emeritus of English
language and literature at Sogang University in Seoul.

*Janet Poole *is associate professor of Korean literature at the University
of Toronto.

*Cheehyung Harrison Kim 김지형* is associate professor of Korean history at
the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
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