Carrying the sunset on your back and stepping on shadows..................Modern Literature, February 2010
Red Virus....................................................Munhakdongne, Fall 2009
A Long Day in Menopause.................................................Literature of Literature, Fall 2008
Camera and Walker.......................................................Korean Literature, February 1975
(Included in "Teaching Shame," Munhakdongne Publishing)
My most precious thing.............................Imagination, first issue in 1993
(Included in "My Most Obsessed Genie," Munhakdongne)
Similar Rooms..................................................................Monthly JoongAng, June 1974
(Included in "Teaching Shame," Munhakdongne Publishing)

“You were my morning star, then the North Star, then the Scorpion, and now you are floating in my sky as the star called ‘Park Wan-seo.’” _ Shin Kyung-sook (novelist)

It was Saturday morning, January 22, 2011, when the news broke.

When the reporter in Seoul told me in Manhattan about you in a very apologetic voice, I couldn't understand what he was saying at first.
no.
It's not that I didn't understand, but how could I understand what was being said?
Shin Kyung-sook, "Look, Professor Park Wan-seo" ("A Long Day")

That's right.
No matter how many times I listened and checked again, I couldn't understand what was being said.
That long, long morning has passed, and a year has passed.
The great star named Park Wan-seo has passed away.


Emotional alchemy, a thousand-year-old narrative, and razor-sharp insight!
Park Wan-seo's final novel collection published

“I believe that literature is a way for both the writer and the reader to prove themselves as human beings.
“I think the reason we need to read literature, which is completely unnecessary for success, is because it is an important process in becoming a human being.”_Kyunghyang Shinmun, 2009.
September 20

A new collection of works is being released to coincide with the first anniversary of the teacher's death.
The last collection of works by the teacher, 『A Long Day』, contains six works in total, including three novels published before his death (「Carrying the Sunset on Your Back and Stepping on Shadows」, 「Red Virus」, 「A Long Day in Menopause」), and three works recommended by Kim Yun-sik, Shin Kyung-sook, and Kim Ae-ran (「Camera and Walker」, 「My Most Idiot Genie」, 「Similar Rooms」).
Eighty years of war, division, and the pain of society and individuals, all endured in that small body.
What a long day that must have been for the teacher.