"I have to be honest and and say that i don't particularly like South Korean literature and I don't particularly like Korean prose, long- long form Korean prose fiction. ... I mean, when I approach a novel I expect to be brought into contact with somebody special in some way and I find that Koreans tend to enjoy fictional and cinematic depictions of normal everyday group life. They want to see a mirror and they will sit back and nod at that and I just have to say it doesn't do very much for me."
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Brian Reynolds Myers, as quoted in "North Korea analyst B.R. Myers in Busan" (5 February 2015), by Colin Marshall, Notebook on Cities and Culture
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