[Anchor]

Time for new book releases.

Reporter Lee Joo-hyoung introduces biographies and books highlighting representative figures of modern Korean literature.

[Reporter]

[Biography of Yi Tae-jun / Written by Ahn Jae-sung / Published by Inmun Seowon]

Two biographies focusing on representative modern Korean writers have been published in succession.

First is a biography of Yi Tae-jun, a master stylist so renowned that people used to say, "Ji-yong for poetry, Tae-jun for prose."

Author Ahn Jae-sung, who has written biographies of historical figures multiple times, restores the literary life of Sangheo Yi Tae-jun, a tragic writer who was labeled a defector to the North and thus taboo in South Korea for a time, while being branded a reactionary writer and purged in North Korea, yet celebrated as the master of the modern Korean short story.

---

[Father Ma Hae-song / Written by Ma Chong-gi / Published by Moonji Publishing]

"Father Ma Hae-song" is a biography looking back at the literary life of pioneering children's literature writer Ma Hae-song, written by his son, poet Ma Chong-gi.

It delicately portrays the life of Ma Hae-song—who lived through the Japanese colonial period and the Korean War around the same era as Yi Tae-jun, pioneering children's literature and publishing remarkable essays—both as a writer and as a father.

---

[The Right of Freedom: On Democratic Ethical Life / Written by Axel Honneth, Translated by Lee Shin-chul / Published by April Books]

"The Right of Freedom" is a masterpiece by Axel Honneth, a third-generation Frankfurt School philosopher famous for the concept of the "struggle for recognition."

At a time when both the political left and right raise the banner of freedom high, the book explores the possibilities of "social freedom" to examine what true freedom entails.

---

[The Invention of Disability / Written by Sarah F. Rose, Translated by Kim Seung-섭 / Published by Dongasia]

"The Invention of Disability" traces how people with disabilities were excluded from the labor market from the 1840s to the 1930s.

As suggested by the title, the author argues that the conventional notion of disability as a body incapable of work was a sort of invention created by a rapidly changing era.

It weaves together disability history and labor history against backdrops such as the economic shift from small-scale agriculture to urban wage labor, and a period when people with disabilities were pushed out of the labor market due to wars and industrial accidents.

---

[Culture Trends 2027 / Written by Shin Hyung-deok, Park Ji-hyun, and 3 others / Published by Pakyoungsa]

"Culture Trends 2027" is a book where experts from various fields, including business scholars, theater critics, and mathematicians, examine changing social and cultural trends from their respective perspectives, centered around artificial intelligence (AI).

---

[The Story of Currency That Changes the World / Written by Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation / Published by Maeil Business Newspaper]

"The Story of Currency That Changes the World" tells the story of the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation overcoming crises as its role diminishes due to the sharp decline in cash usage.

It contains examples of how the traditional manufacturing public enterprise leveraged its capabilities into ICT and cultural sectors to pioneer new business areas.

(VJ: Oh Se-kwan, Video Editing: Cho Mu-hwan)