◆ [YTN Radio SHINYUL's news]
■ Broadcasting: FM 94.5 (17:00-19:00)
■ Air date: October 11, 2024 (Friday)
■ Proceedings: Shin Yul, Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy at Myongji University
■ Talk: ☎ Rep. Kang Yoo-jung of the Democratic Party of Korea
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- Nobel Prize for Literature, Senior Citizen Privilege...Asian countries expected to win the Han River, but not expected to win the prize
- 'Magic of Nobel' Han River, overturned everything without mentioning Asian female candidates
- 2016 cultural blacklist case, Han River is also affected..It should never happen again
- The guidelines of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education should not be lowered carelessly.Culture and arts value can be undermined
- 'freedom of expression' must be guaranteed before any freedom.Why Art Exists
- There is a possibility of a poet and a novelist from 韓.The news will follow shortly
- Text message full of support to novelist Han Kang
◇ Shin Yul, Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy at Myongji University (hereinafter Shin Yul): Shin Yul's news head-to-head competition begins part 3. In today's face-to-face interview for the third part, you were a literary critic and writer, right? In addition to the Democratic Party of Korea's Kang Yoo-jung, we have continued to talk about Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature. Hello, Senator Kang.
★ Rep. Kang Yoo-jeong of the Democratic Party (hereinafter Kang Yoo-jeong): Yes, hello. Nice to meet you.
◇ Sin Yul: How, did you expect it? The Nobel Prize in Literature will come out in Korea?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: I thought Han Kang would receive it someday, but I didn't know it would be this year.
◇ Sin-ryul: One day you will receive it. Why did you think so?
★ Kang Yoo-jeong: There are some kind of rules that the Nobel Prize for Literature has, if I'm going to be a little more expert. One is that the more you have a record of confronting violence and oppression, the more advantageous it is. On the one hand, Haruki was constantly disappointed in that part, which is why Haruki Murakami mentioned the Nanjing Massacre while writing 1Q84. And on the other hand, there's a sense of a local kind of arrangement and balance in the Nobel Academy. Recently, however, there were almost winners in Europe and North America, but there were also expectations that there would be winners from Asia. So I think an Asian writer will receive it, but what I missed is that I thought there was a little preferential treatment for the elderly. Because it's an award given to a surviving writer, I thought that Han Kang should stay a little longer because she's still young.
◇ Sin Yul: I see. Anyway, this time, Japan has produced two Nobel Prize winners so far. Two. But she is the first woman in Asia. If you put meaning here, what kind of meaning would it be possible?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: Recently, Nobel has also been leaning a lot toward female writers, so for example, Ani Herno, who won the prize last year, is also a French female writer. It seems like a kind of vested interest in terms of Europe, but the world of the novel itself, which Erno showed, has continued to challenge male authority, centered on women, and has written works that are very faithful to their emotions and emotions. Nevertheless, Asian writers Yasunari Kawabata and writers from Red Sorghum Field received awards, but women never won awards, and on the other hand, as we remember, male writers such as Goeun poet and Hwang Seok-young were mainly mentioned, I wondered if it was still far off for women, especially Asian women, to become candidates or winners, but I overturned everything and won the award like this.
◇ Sin-ryul: But when he says he didn't know, and why do you say Nobel Prizes, there are people who get Nobel Prizes or these gamblers. They say they didn't expect it here, but I guess that's possible.
★ Kang Yoo-jung: But there are quite a few cases where the writers who finally won the award were unexpectedly unspoken. After the final award was decided, Canadian writers such as Ellis Mollo also responded that they thought Ellis Mollo would receive it someday, but they didn't know this year. So in that case, maybe the most frequent writer that is often mentioned by gamblers is actually Haruki, a Japanese writer. So I think it'll be more disappointing. As a joke, in the past, when Ko Eun was a candidate for establishment, I waited near the broadcast newsroom as a literary critic. I think I'll get it. However, it is also the magic of Nobel that the gambling probability of gamblers increases with such expectations.
◇ Sin-ryul: But as I said earlier, the reporters would stretch out in front of the poet's house when the poet Go-eun said he would rather than win the Nobel Prize.
★ Kang Yoo-jung: That's right.
◇ Sin Yul: But of course, the whole nation is very happy. About Han Kang's Nobel Prize winning, I think it's not as exciting as the past. Personally, I think that's because Korea is so diversified and there are many areas that are well known around the world in various ways. What do you think, Kang?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: I'm a little different from the host... The whole country is shaking right now.
◇ Shin Yul: I'm sorry.
★ Kang Yoo-jung: It's shaking. I'm in awe of anyone who has any ideas about this Nobel Prize. It's kind of a recognized award that's the best scholar or the best writer. So there's very little controversy. That's why we use it symbolically and figuratively. When we were told that the Nobel Prize should come out of Nobel Science and the Nobel Prize should come out of literature, our cultural values were already the best in Cannes, the best in Academy, and even in terms of box office, director Hwang Dong-hyuk was loved by a huge audience for the Squid Game, but he had the hunger of this Nobel. However, as this hunger is filled today, even though it's not in the news all day long, many people are joking that the stock prices of publishing-related companies have risen.
◇ Shin Yul: The stock price is bound to go up. If 130,000 copies are reserved now, it should be 130,000 copies, but it's half a day.
★ Kang Yoo-jung: And it is true that the situation in which many people are gloriously posting their books on social media and saying they will read them again is a happy occasion in our country.
◇ Shin Yul: But I can ask you a question. Is Han Kang's real name? Or is it a pen name?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: My real name. It was named by his father, Han Seung-won. Han Seung-won is born in Jangheung, and Lee Cheong-chun is also born in Jangheung. On the other hand, it is the hometown of director Lim Kwon-taek, so many people are proud of it as a courtesy.
◇ Sin Yul: I see. I'm asking because it's a miracle of the Han River, and actually, it seems that Han River writer has said this in the past. I heard that a boy was blacklisted after releasing Onda in a humanities course. 5. I said it's heartbreaking that 18 hasn't been liquidated yet.
★ Kang Yoo-jung: That's right.
◇ [Voiceover] In fact, it's not right for this field of art and literature to get too much political interpretation.
★ Kang Yoo-jeong: This is where writers and artists always look at things that oppress me, or things that inconvenience me, and this is where everything starts. But at that time, this was actually confirmed. Now, in October 2016, it was said that a blacklist existed at the time of the parliamentary audit, and since the investigation began, the names of 9,437 artists who participated in the declaration of the Ferry Sewol situation at the time or who declared their support for the opposition candidate, Moon Jae In, were confirmed as blacklists. However, the parts go beyond just listing the names, and director Park Geun-young is urged to give up the subsidy, and Han Kang, who wrote "This Boy Is Coming," was also blacklisted, and was later excluded from the final trial of Sejong Book. On the other hand, the official of the Korea Publishing and Culture Industry Promotion Agency said at that time, he opened the book and underlined it. 5. He even testified that it was not different from pre-censorship by searching keywords such as 18 North Korean Marx politicians. In fact, in these cases, didn't this trial even send Cho Yoon-sun, former senior presidential secretary for political affairs, or Kim Ki-choon, former presidential chief of staff, to prison? It's an event that should never happen again.
◇ Shin Yul: But I have another question. Isn't there a book called Vegetarian? By the way, it was designated as a harmful education book for youth by the Gyeonggi Provincial Government. Do you think this is due to ideological orientation? Or do you think it's because some of the things that are described in it are a little too much for the youth to see? What do you think?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: In that regard, I think it's a good attitude, especially in literature, to not drop the guidelines carelessly. When I was young, Mrs. Bovary in middle and high school, how great is it? I've seen it in recommended books as a literary edition, but sometimes I learn that it's not tempting, but it's greatly damaged by having a wrong concept. For example, when the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education made a list of harmful sex education books for teenagers, right and wrong in this area became a kind of censorship, and when a conservative parent group filed a complaint with the United Nations that it was kept in the library, the school and the library management committee handled it just because the complaint came in. It was disposed of. However, if you look at the content of this vegetarian, some things related to sex are not important, but they are very opposed to patriarchy in the classical sense that has suppressed us a little, and they are necessary descriptions of the violence of that part, but if you look at this one part too big, it can rather undermine the value of culture and art. I also think that through this controversy, why don't we trust the expertise of those who work in libraries about censorship, parents' evaluation of works, or complaints?
◇ Sin-ryul: That's right. It's very important to believe in expertise in each field. But anyway, many people will think that in the future, it would be nice if politics would not intervene too much in this field of literature and art. I think it's the same regardless of progressive and conservative. So, it's not like one side can talk about what's more important, but in the future, Representative Kang will have to play a lot of roles.
★ Kang Yoo-jung: Freedom of expression should be guaranteed before any freedom. Sometimes it's a little uncomfortable for those who are hard on politicians' ears or have power, but that's why art still exists.
◇ Shin Yul: Let's change the direction. I won the soccer game 2-0 yesterday. But I was very impressed by Kang's performance at the second lieutenant of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee last time. How do you see it? What happened yesterday? Do you think the controversy over the Korea Football Association will subside if you win like this?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: The substance of the question many people raised about the Korea Football Association did not play. It's not because I've become wary. If the problems that have been left structurally for a long time are not solved, the fairness of the future of Korean soccer is what many people would have been interested in this opportunity, and in the end, if there is a little dogmatic about structural problems and fairness, it is helpful for the future of Korean soccer. Therefore, I don't think it's a matter of any change depending on the outcome of individual games, and I think many soccer fans are waiting for the day when they come up with some fundamental measures.
◇ Shin Yul: I'm sure you've received a lot of messages of support from Kang because the soccer continues to be watched by so many people.
★ Kang Yoo-jung: Yes. I think soccer is also a national good.
◇ [Voiceover] Yeah, that's right. And one more thing, do you think there is a possibility that there will be another Nobel Prize in literature in Korea?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: There are actually some writers that I look forward to in my heart. That's why it was proved that the writers had the first great translator through this opportunity. If emotions and emotions are delivered with the translator, I'm looking forward to hearing from these writers who have a list in my heart soon.
◇ Is that a secret?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: Because as soon as I say my name, I have so much expectation and my own personal list, and I have a poet and a novelist in my heart.
◇ Sin Yul: A poet and a relatively young person, right?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: One person is not young.
◇ Shin Yul: But anyway, the important thing is that as you just said, translation is also very important. I think that the reason why the Nobel Prize in the past did not come out in Korea was not because it was not a work, but because it was a little difficult to translate.
★ Kang Yoo-jung: That's right.
◇ Shin Yul: You just received a Nobel Prize from Han Kang, but if you could say something, what would you say?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: I don't know. I left a text message in the morning without hoping for an answer. I'm so proud and grateful, and I left a message as a fan and a younger brother I once knew that I will take good care of my physical strength for a long time without getting tired.
◇ Did you get the answer?
★ Kang Yoo-jung: Of course the answer is... I didn't expect it.
◇ Shin Yul: But it's going to come. Isn't there going to be another controversy? That's why I asked.
★ Kang Yoo-jung: No. I'm just sending you my heart because I'm probably sending too many messages right now, expecting that they won't be delivered well.
◇ Shin Yul: Okay. Anyway, in my view, Kang Yoo-jung is a person who can make his own unique color voice in areas that no one else can do in the 22nd National Assembly, so we will continue to support and watch. Let's stop here today. Thank you.
★ Kang Yoo-jeong: Thank you.
◇ Shin Yul: This has been Rep. Kang Yoo-jung of the Democratic Party of Korea.
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