L to R: Sunyoung Lee, Gina Chung, Jane Yong Kim, Hannah Bae, Cathy Park Hong, Ed Park. Photo credit: Kaya Press
On September 19th, Kundiman joined the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Kaya Press at Gallery Hyundai in New York to present Radical Histories: A Roundtable of Korean/American Authors. The evening featured a reading and discussion with writers Hannah Bae, Gina Chung, Cathy Park Hong, Jane Yong Kim, Alice Sola Kim, and Ed Park.
The event opened with readings from two books in Kaya Press’ Magpie Series for Korean Literature in Translation. Kaya Press publisher Sunyoung Lee shared excerpts from Song of Arirang: The Story of a Korean Revolutionary in China (written by Kim San and co-edited by George O. Totten III and Dongyoun Hwang). Panel moderator and The Atlantic culture editor Jane Yong Kim read from the short story, "Battle of Broccoli Plains," from Everything Good Dies Here, an anthology of science fiction by Djuna, translated by Adrian Thieret.
Panelists Hannah Bae, Gina Chung, Cathy Park Hong, Alice Sola Kim, and Ed Park then shared from their own works before discussing their relationship to their identities as Korean American writers and the spirit of radicalism in Korean diasporic narratives.
Zines were compiled on-site with excerpts from attendees and the readers' work, which were given out after the event.
This was an official 2025 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event, supported by Gallery Hyundai and sponsored by the USC Dornsife Korean Studies Institute.
Thank you to everyone who attended!