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- Poetry서동요Anonymous · 599not translated into EnglishA four-line song from the end of the sixth century, which a suitor has children sing in order to compromise a princess.Literature
- Poetry제망매가Master Wolmyeong · 750not translated into EnglishA funerary song from Silla, in the eighth century, in which a monk mourns his dead sister in a ten-line hyangga.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryKyunyo-jon: The Life, Times and Songs of a Tenth-Century Korean Monk균여전Hyeok Ryeon-jeong · 1075Biography of a Koryo monk completed in 1075, which saved by copying them eleven hyangga, Korean poems written in Chinese characters, together with their Chinese translation.Literature
- ChronicleSamguk Yusa: Legends and History of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea三國遺事Iryeon · 1281A collection compiled in the thirteenth century by a monk, which preserves the country's foundation myth and its oldest songs.Literature
- NovelThe Story of Hong Gildong홍길동전Heo Kyun · 1612A novel in Korean about a concubine's son who, excluded from office by his birth, becomes the leader of a band of righteous brigands.Literature
- PoetryThe Fisherman's Calendar어부사시사Yun Seon-do · 1651Cycle of forty sijo from 1651, ten per season, in which a scholar retired as a fisherman follows the rhythms of the sea and the year.Literature
- NovelThe Nine Cloud Dream구운몽Kim Man-jung · 1687A seventeenth-century novel in which a young monk, sent back among men, lives an entire existence of glory and love in Tang China.Literature
- NarrativeChun Yang춘향전Anonymous · 1750An anonymous narrative derived from pansori, set down in writing in the eighteenth century, about the love of a courtesan's daughter and a young nobleman.Literature
- TaleThe Tale of Student Heo허생전Pak Chi-won · 1780A satirical tale in classical Chinese from the late eighteenth century, in which a poor scholar makes a fortune in trade and calls those who govern to account.Literature
- Poetry해에게서 소년에게Choe Nam-seon · 1908not translated into EnglishA poem in six stanzas in which the sea, with the sound of its waves, promises youth a new world.Literature
- Novel추월색Choe Chan-sik · 1912not translated into EnglishA novel of two childhood betrothed, separated by a revolt, whom chance brings together in a foreign city.Literature
- NovelThe Heartless무정Yi Kwang-su · 1917Novel of a young teacher torn between a notable's daughter and a childhood friend who has become a kisaeng.Literature
- Poetry불놀이Chu Yo-han · 1919not translated into EnglishPoem of a festival night on the banks of the Taedong, in which a man in mourning keeps apart from the crowd.Literature
- Short stories배따라기Kim Tong-in · 1921not translated into EnglishFramed narrative in which a boatman tells the narrator what jealousy did to his family.Literature
- Theatre운명Yun Baek-nam · 1921not translated into EnglishPlay first staged in 1921 about a young Korean woman married by photograph to an emigrant in Hawaii.Literature
- NarrativeA Lucky Day운수 좋은 날Hyeon Jin-geon · 1924A story of 1924: a poor rickshaw puller has a lucky day in the rain, while his sick wife waits for him.Literature
- NarrativeSamnyong the Mute벙어리 삼룡이Na To-hyang · 1925The story of a mute servant who becomes attached to the young woman whom his master's son mistreats.Literature
- PoetryAzaleas진달래꽃Kim So-wol · 1925Poetry collection of 1925 about the beloved who departs, written in the metre of folk songs.Literature
- NarrativeEscape탈출기Choe Seo-hae · 1925A narrative of 1925 in the form of a letter: a Korean emigrant in Manchuria justifies in it having abandoned his mother and wife.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryLove's Silence and Other Poems님의 침묵Han Yong-un · 1926A collection of poems from 1926 addressed to an absent loved one, whom the word in the title does not distinguish from the nation or the Buddha.Literature
- Narrative낙동강Cho Myeong-hui · 1927not translated into EnglishA 1927 narrative about an activist who returns to the river of his childhood, where he organises the people living along its banks with his companion.LiteraturePublic domain
- Novel임꺽정Hong Myeong-hui · 1928not translated into EnglishHistorical novel serialised from 1928 to 1939 about a butcher who becomes a bandit chief under the Joseon dynasty.Literature
- NovelThree Generations삼대Yom Sang-seop · 1931Novel of 1931 about a Seoul family in which the grandfather, the son and the grandson clash over fortune and the future.Literature
- Novel고향Yi Ki-yeong · 1933not translated into EnglishA novel serialised from 1933 to 1934 about a student returned from Japan who becomes a farmer and guides the peasants of his village.Literature
- CinemaCrossroads of Youth청춘의 십자로Ahn Jong-hwa · 1934A silent film from 1934 about a brother and sister who come from their village to Gyeongseong, rediscovered in 2007.Cinema
- Short stories소낙비Kim Yu-jeong · 1935not translated into EnglishShort story from 1935 in which a ruined peasant, in debt from gambling, sends his wife to sell herself to the local notable.LiteraturePublic domain
- Novel황혼Han Seol-ya · 1936not translated into EnglishA novel serialised in 1936 about a young governess who goes to work in a factory and joins the workers.Literature
- Narrative까마귀Yi Tae-jun · 1936not translated into EnglishA narrative from 1936 in which a writer, alone in a borrowed villa, becomes close to a young sick woman who fears crows.Literature
- NovelScenes from Ch'ŏnggye Stream천변풍경Pak Tae-won · 1936A novel published in two stages, in 1936 and 1937, about life in a working-class district of Seoul, with no main character.Literature
- Short storiesWhen Buckwheat Flowers Bloom메밀꽃 필 무렵Yi Hyo-seok · 1936A short story of 1936 in which three pedlars make their way by night, under the moon, through the buckwheat fields of Gangwon.Literature
- NovelTurbid Rivers탁류Chae Man-sik · 1937A novel of 1937 about the eldest daughter of a ruined family of Gunsan, whom her parents marry off to a bank clerk.Literature
- Poetry향현Pak Tu-jin · 1939not translated into EnglishA poem of 1939, in five stanzas, in which a mountain inhabited by hostile beasts awaits the flame that is to reconcile them.Literature
- CinemaHurrah! For Freedom자유만세Choe In-gyu · 1946A film of 1946 about a resistance fighter against the Japanese occupation, hunted through Seoul in the last days of the colonization.Cinema
- CinemaA Diary of Woman여성일기Hong Seong-gi · 1949The first Korean feature film in colour, shot in 16 mm, about a betrayed wife who devotes herself to social work.Cinema
- Short stories포인트Choe Sang-gyu · 1956not translated into EnglishShort story from 1956 about a young man of letters called up for military service, who lives off his wife's earnings.Literature
- Short stories나상Yi Ho-cheol · 1956not translated into EnglishA 1956 short story in which two captive brothers walk north together under escort.Literature
- Short stories모반O Sang-won · 1957not translated into EnglishA short story of 1957 about a young patriot who has become the gunman of a secret society in the years following 1945.Literature
- Short stories잉여인간Son Chang-seop · 1958not translated into EnglishA 1958 short story about a dentist and two idle friends, surplus men in post-war society.Literature
- Poetry달나라의 장난Kim Su-yeong · 1959not translated into EnglishThe only collection published in its author's lifetime, in 1959, in which the everyday life of the city enters the verse.Literature
- Short storiesA Stray Bullet오발탄Yi Beom-seon · 1959A short story of 1959 about a family of refugees from the North crushed by the poverty of the fifties in Seoul.Literature
- NovelThe Square광장Choe In-hun · 1960A novel published in 1960, after the student uprising of April, in which a prisoner of war rejects both North and South and leaves for a neutral country.Literature
- CinemaThe Housemaid하녀Kim Ki-young · 1960A film of 1960 in which a maid hired by a music teacher gains the upper hand over the family that employs her.Cinema
- CinemaThe Stray Bullet오발탄Yu Hyun-mok · 1961A 1961 film, based on a 1959 short story, about a family of refugees from the North crushed by poverty in postwar Seoul.Cinema
- Short storiesKapitan Ri꺼삐딴 리Jeon Gwang-yong · 1962Short story from 1962 about an opportunistic doctor who serves in turn the Japanese, the Soviets and the Americans.Literature
- Poetry금강Shin Tong-yop · 1967not translated into EnglishAn epic poem of 1967 on the revolt of 1894, reread in the light of the present.Literature
- NovelThe Moving Castle움직이는 성Hwang Sun-won · 1968A novel published in a journal from 1968 to 1972 about three men torn between Christianity, shamanism and doubt.Literature
- Short stories객지Hwang Sok-yong · 1971not translated into EnglishA short story from 1971 in which indebted labourers on the coast prepare a strike.Literature
- NovelYour Paradise당신들의 천국Yi Cheong-jun · 1976Novel of 1976 about a military director who wants to turn an island of lepers into a paradise.Literature
- Novel휘청거리는 오후Pak Wan-seo · 1977not translated into EnglishA novel of manners from the nineteen-seventies about a Seoul shopkeeper and his three daughters of marriageable age.Literature
- Short stories타령Choe Il-lam · 1977not translated into EnglishA story collection from 1977 about the humble people of the city's markets.Literature
- Short storiesThe Dwarf난장이가 쏘아 올린 작은 공Cho Se-hui · 1978Cycle of stories from 1978 about a working-class family driven out of its neighbourhood by the redevelopment of Seoul.Literature
- NovelEvening Glow노을Kim Won-il · 1978A novel of 1978 in which a man returns to his native town and confronts the memory of his father, a communist leader in 1948.Literature
- NovelAhbe's Family아베의 가족Jeon Sang-guk · 1979Narrative from 1979 about a family that emigrated to the United States and left behind in Korea a son born of a rape during the war.Literature
- Short stories유년의 뜰O Jung-hee · 1981not translated into EnglishA 1981 short story collection in which post-war Korea is often seen from a child's or a woman's level.Literature
- CinemaSpinning the Tales of Cruelty Towards Women여인잔혹사 물레야 물레야Yi Du-yong · 1984A film from 1984 that follows, in fifteenth-century Korea, a widow passing from one injustice to another.Cinema
- CinemaThe Surrogate Woman씨받이Im Kwon-taek · 1987A film from 1987 in which a young peasant woman is chosen as a surrogate mother by a noble family of the Joseon period.Cinema
- CinemaChilsu and Mansu칠수와 만수Park Kwang-su · 1988A film from 1988 about two penniless signboard painters, in the aftermath of the military dictatorship.Cinema
- CinemaLovers in Woomukbaemi우묵배미의 사랑Jang Sun-woo · 1990A film from 1990 about the affair between a tailor and a workshop worker, both unhappily married.Cinema
- CinemaHomo Videocus호모 비디오쿠스Lee Jae-yong and Byun Hyuk · 1990A 1990 film school short about a boy who lives only through television and his video camera.Cinema
- CinemaSilver Stallion은마는 오지 않는다Jang Gil-su · 1991A 1991 film about a village widow rejected by her own people after being raped by foreign soldiers during the war.Cinema
- CinemaWhite Badge하얀전쟁Jeong Ji-yeong · 1992A film of 1992 about two former Korean soldiers of the Vietnam War haunted by what they lived through there.Cinema
- NovelLand토지Pak Kyong-ni · 1994A river novel in five parts, completed in 1994, about a family of large landowners in Gyeongsang and its village, from 1897 to the liberation.Literature
- CinemaOut to the World세상밖으로Yeo Kyun-dong · 1994A black comedy of 1994 in which two men who escape despite themselves and an outlaw woman travel across Korea toward the northern border.Cinema
- CinemaA Hot Roof개 같은 날의 오후Yi Min-yong · 1995A film from 1995 in which ten women, after the accidental death of a violent husband, hold the roof of their apartment building.Cinema
- CinemaThe Day a Pig Fell Into the Well돼지가 우물에 빠진 날Hong Sang-soo · 1996A first film of 1996, in four parts, about four Seoul residents linked by love, infidelity and loneliness.Cinema
- CinemaThree Friends세 친구Yim Soon-rye · 1996First feature film, from 1996, about three suburban boys with no future, caught up by military service.Cinema
- CinemaMotel Cactus모텔 선인장Park Ki-yong · 1997A 1997 film in four episodes, four couples in the same room of a Seoul love hotel.Cinema
- CinemaPeppermint Candy박하사탕Lee Chang-dong · 1999A film from 1999 that runs backwards through twenty years of a broken man's life, from 1999 to 1979.Cinema
- CinemaJoint Security Area공동경비구역 JSAPark Chan-wook · 2000A film of 2000 about an investigation after a deadly shooting in a North Korean post in the demilitarized zone.Cinema
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