Press
Coverage of Key One Yeom and his books in the Korean press, arranged by title. All articles are in Korean.
Coverage by book
Blue Eye 블루아이
- Easy to read doesn't mean easy to write: Key One Yeom, author of Blue Eye
Sky Daily · 쉽게 읽힌다고 쉽게 쓴 것은 아닙니다… '블루아이'의 작가 염기원 (in Korean) - New books: Blue Eye
Kyosu Shinmun · 블루아이 (in Korean)
Schoolgirl Champ King Arthur 여고생 챔프 아서왕
- A story of angapeum and anggapeum: repaying love, and revenge
Sky Daily · '안갚음'과 '앙갚음'에 대한 이야기… (in Korean) - New books: Schoolgirl Champ King Arthur
Kyosu Shinmun · 여고생 챔프 아서왕 (in Korean)
Going After My Damn Brother 오빠 새끼 잡으러 간다
- “Catch that damn brother!”: the birth of the “Key One Yeom genre”
Munhak News · "오빠 새끼 잡아라"...'염기원 장르' 탄생 (in Korean) - Seven questions, seven answers: Operation Catch the Con-Artist Brother
Channel Yes (YES24) · 7문 7답, 사기꾼 오빠 검거 대작전! (in Korean) - New books: Going After My Damn Brother
Kyosu Shinmun · 오빠 새끼 잡으러 간다 (in Korean)
Life Is Like Bitcoin 인생 마치 비트코인
- Key One Yeom paints the ups and downs of youth, like Bitcoin
Munhak News · 염기원이 그린 비트코인 같은 청춘의 굴곡 (in Korean) - Today's book: Life Is Like Bitcoin
KNN · 오늘의책 - 인생 마치 비트코인 (in Korean)
Goody Jeanne d'Arc 구디 얀다르크
- Key One Yeom's Goody Jeanne d'Arc wins the 5th Hwangsanbeol Young Writers' Award
Yonhap News Agency · 제5회 황산벌청년문학상에 염기원 작가의 '구디 얀다르크' (in Korean) - Night Flight: the woman who became the Joan of Arc of Guro Digital Complex
Asia Economy · 기하영의 야간비행-구로디지털단지의 잔다르크가 된 그녀 (in Korean) - A brutal history of IT workers who took up laptops instead of sewing machines
Kyunghyang Shinmun · 미싱 대신 노트북 든 IT노동자들의 잔혹사 담았다 (in Korean)
Other coverage
- The haves did not keep their promises
Munhak News · 가진 자는 약속을 지키지 않았다 (in Korean)
Writing by Key One Yeom
Portraits of Working People (일하는 사람의 초상), The Hankyoreh. An interview series in which writers of the Wolgeup Realism collective portray people at work. Collected in book form as 일하는 사람의 초상 (Portraits of Working People).
- “Perfect pitch? Musical literacy matters more”
The Hankyoreh · "절대음감이요? 음악적 소양이 더 중요하죠" (in Korean) - “Ten years in Jeju, practicing medicine through conversation”
The Hankyoreh · "제주 10년차, 수다로 진료합니다" (in Korean) - From a band to a game company, I plan my life
The Hankyoreh · 밴드에서 게임회사까지, 나는 삶을 기획한다 (in Korean) - A poet who drives a yellow car, commuting twice a day
The Hankyoreh · 노란 차를 모는 시인, 하루 두번 출근합니다 (in Korean) - “Tear-gas ramen”: twenty-five years in the life of a Russian auntie
The Hankyoreh · 러시아 이모의 25년 인생이 담긴 '최루탄 라면' (in Korean)
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