Starr Forum: Pachinko

A book talk with Min Jin Lee
Pachinko, a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award in Fiction, “chronicles four generations of an ethnic Korean family, first in Japanese-occupied Korea in the early 20th century, then in Japan itself from the years before World War II to the late 1980s”-New York Times.
A transcript of the event is available at cis.mit.edu/events/transcript...
About the speakers:
Min Jin Lee, a novelist, is a 2018-2019 recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She has received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction; the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story; The Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer; and, while at Yale, the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction.
Amy Carleton, joins the talk as a discussant. She holds a PhD in English literature and is a lecturer in MIT's Comparative Media Studies division. Her writing has appeared in various publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and New York Magazine. She is an active contributor to WBUR’s Cognoscenti, including a recent piece: How fiction makes real the suffering of immigrants, in which she explores the impact of Pachinko.
Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT Global Studies and Languages (GSL), MIT Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS), MISTI MIT-Japan, and MISTI MIT-Korea
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[@primary8775]

Her talk is very touching and she is adorable at the same time.

[@cobbija]

I became Korean with this book.

[@WW-ob7ek]

Me too. I used to be Japanese.

[@MatheusSantos-uy9cy]

Me too

[@jenny.b]

Me too

[@whonattu]

thank you!

[@tetsushinjou6456]

Me too. I used to be Korean.

[@user-dd4uk5pd5e]

She is a great woman beyond a great novelist. She has humor, humanity, and great DNA that overcome modern Korean history...

[@Love-yp6up]

She is an intellectual, elegant woman. I like the style of her speech.

[@jstv5390]

사회적 소속 과 관계에 대해 잘 알려주어 감사합니다 이민진 작가님 자랑스럽습니다

[@mia53095]

What a great and touching speech.

[@user-sy1gs1ix8o]

이 분의 말씀을 들으며 이분의 아버님을 생각해봅니다.😭 아버님을 6.25 때 부모잃고 온갖 고통을 겪어 내고 그래도 결혼해서 미국가서 자녀교육 잘 시켜서 아름다운 승리의 삶을 사셨네요. 하나님이 붙잡아주시고 인도해 주셨군요!!🙏

[@user-pf1jf6mx7f]

이민진 작가님. 비행기에 처음 탄 순간부터 소설을 낭독해 주실 때까지 유려하고 진솔한 언변으로 인생을 잘 담아주셔서 감사합니다. 소설 파친코를 읽고 이 영상까지 보게 되었는데 상상 이상으로 더 강직하신 분이라는게 느껴집니다. 명소설이라는 진주를 품어내기까지 수많은 역경과 고통이 있었겠지요. 하지만 결국 많은사람들에게 웃으며 이 이야기를 전달할 수 있어 감사함 뿐입니다. 항상 행복하세요. love from korea

[@pattenb1]

❤ very articulate, such a strong and true message!

[@GummyRiches]

She is adorable.

[@myung-heecheon4160]

big fan of Min jin Lee

[@sunnymak4460]

i left korea with my mum in '76 to sydney australia.. i feel your banana story ;) thank you for your talk.. beautiful!

[@heavenhaven7254]

When my family immigrated to USA, my brother and I devoured buying banana which was so expensive back in S. Korea.

[@4haelli]

Thanks for uploading this event. Just started reading Minjin's book. She seems to be very witty and aprently a great writer. Looking forward reading the book and watching the apple TV series, Pachinko.

[@user-wt9ou9du5o]

이민진작가님 연설 감동 입니다. 자랑스런 한국인 입니다.

[@AA_cowgomoo]

19살에 파칭코를 쓰기로 시작했다던데 열정과 노력이 대단합니다. 수만은 역사책과 토론 보다 일본의 만행을 해외인들이 잠시만이라도 한국인으로 겪고 이해하고 분노를 느끼게 해줘서 고맙습니다 21세기는 한국이라던데 기생충, 미나리, 파칭코, 웹툰 드라마 등등 한국인들이라 잘하는 게 아니라 많은 분야에서 한국계 분들이 열정과 노력으로 한국 이야기를 써나가고 한국에 관심을 받게 열심히 개최해 나가고 있네요. 한국이 무력이 아닌 소프트파워로 전세에 사랑을 받는 게 자랑스럽죠.

[@jessepark4769]

제 인생책입니다 thumbs up! It's my lifetime book !

[@hessajung3836]

I love the MIT style introduction on Minjin Lee which made everything more intriguing:)

[@heavenhaven7254]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWPOYp-HfL1qqpI

[@chonghunyi]

First time hearing you and finding you here. Am going to buy the book and read....

[@love_jin_angela2853]

우연히 유튜브를 통해 파친코를 알게 되고, 이민진 작가님 연설들을 보게되었네요. :) 파친코를 읽어보고 싶어졌어요♡ 그리고 기회가 된다면 한국 프로그램에서도 이민진 작가님의 강연을 마련해 주면 참 좋겠다는 생각이 들었어요. 한국사람인데, 이제 알게되다니, 너무 늦게 알게되서 죄송할 지경이네요 ㅎㅎ Through KZbin, I found your lectures regarding this book 파친코. I'm amazed by your talking and will buy this book to read now , 3 years later it's been published! Why didn't I know you? You should come to Korea and having TV show, too. More people should listen to you and read this book.

[@stevejang2]

민지 made me happy, and teary eyes today. So thankful and proud to have met through this KZbin by algorithm. Brilliant 민지 and I hope to meet some day and get autograph ...

[@AA_cowgomoo]

1st author to actively search KZbin for speeches and engagements....and can't get enough...does that make me a Min Jin Lee fanatic?

[@user-go9zf8hg9k]

You are awesome.

[@user-rd3gm7ey9r]

이민진작가님 감사합니다!!!

[@heavenhaven7254]

So..... great stuff .... Thank you for sharing... !

[@daisysung7230]

We love you 사랑해요 🇰🇷

[@cnkang9939]

Love this book and love her. Lucky i don't live in Japan or Korea, my life as a Korean descendent has been wonderful most of the time outside of Asia.

[@user-sx2iv6rq6q]

if you now live in korea, you would feel lucky to live in.

[@Jc3805]

Have you visited Korea now? I feel unlucky not being able to live in Korea now.

[@yoonamnam8286]

I dare to speak Pachinko is work of the same class as The Good Earth,a novel by Pearl S. Buck. I hope you will get Nobel Prize in Literature Nominee some day in the future.

[@heavenhaven7254]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWPOYp-HfL1qqpI

[@soniapereira118]

Li Pachinko e gostei muito. O livro nos insere na Cultura coreana, nos por em contato com o preconceito, a discriminação e a força de indivíduos e grupos que não se rendem à força de poderosos. Um grande livro.

[@kathrynlervick8307]

Dear god, Lin Jin is my new inspirational hero. A gem!

[@user-wo6bf1hu4s]

In the beginning, in the US history, European American threatened the Natives and at the same time has been suffered by English.. Their history has been dominated more then just 200years but this is Asian time specially Korean waves!!Good one I mean!! nest will fallow!!

[@syc5674]

Great conversations. Love it!

[@user-vs1zp9dn6i]

작가님 일본 과 식민지 한인 실상을 진실성있는 과거와 현재를 세상에 알리는 문학의 무한한 감동을 주네요 사실 유태인 보다 더오랜 세월동안 일본인들에게 온갖 수모와 천대속에 참고 또참고 죽지몾하고 살아온통한 의 세월 현재 진행형 지금도 일본사회 차별은 세계유일 계속되고 있어요

[@WhiteGhost13]

I’m from Queens!!!

[@ifihadagun03]

19:06 Books says 1979 not 1976. Just a note. :)

[@disgruntledbystander252]

I miss my halmoni.

[@Jade0918able]

Short suits are very impressive

[@FeeL_St]

If u understand the Korean words of Han, Jung, Hongikingan, u will fine the way to love someone else.

[@soniapereira118]

Abraços do Brasil.

[@mindfulness6865]

make unfamiliarity yours.

[@molallagre9906]

오우 난 김앤장에서 기사로 일하는데.. 반갑소.

[@sunbird8162]

Long live the USA! Long live Korea!

[@brandonkim76]

41:33 lol hilarious

[@markthenicholson]

1:19:55 . I loved the book and the discussion. What I don’t understand is why people who escaped to the US after Japanese colonization, the Korean civil war, and the Asian financial crisis suddenly start to blame white men for their problems.

[@kiwonkwon6912]

IDK why Sloan closest

[@malothro4217]

You are gonna be an open wound forever 😂 43:08

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Peace require absolute power

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

The true American Emperialismist is me. Please don't let me be misunderstood on that.

[@jeesuekim]

She wrote book 2... NYC socialite etc scenes hm... Missouri.... Hm... Book 1 is WAY too lyrical poetic stunning to be by this same person but seems ... More contracted out. BUT my grandfather is was a missionary the inaccuracy. His survival instinct is way above a corrupt Korean minister hello. He subsumes with many disguises during occupation and to come south past the communist block with Americans on dmz since 1945. TB?? Where was that in Korea? All our shots ... Measles, typhoid... TB???? Anyway. Part one just moved me so much in these characters like JUDE THE OBSCURE barely surviving that killed off in part 2 hmmm even Dickens didn't do that. As missionaries they were highly desired to teach them to read not one? Too weird. Obv. Just numbers. Too weird. Their disguises hiding teaching all the time just nonexistent and the corrupt other figures survive as the missionaries from Pyongyang... Ended there. Not true. See Korea only christian Asian nation. They were hungry to read just like America. Opportunities in Korea. And she made missed the significance of Korean war in Japan led to their industrial boom and out of dust. Too fixated on these characters in Korea the owners lost all saying some Japanese family hm... Watkins... As y'all returning from Korea and Russian prisons, all military. Somethings missing there... Like which JAPANESE girl eyed all that from a fat boarding house owner from Busan. A baby. Hm... They back then huge families. One. Two. Hm.... Grandma had 5 Grandpa had 8!! Farmers hm .. they ain't. Hm. Boarding house. All those sleeze bags lost all in war. How?? They're not conscripts?? Hm?? Jeez the inaccuracy and she killed the missionaries bunch of fatsos hmmm ... Nah.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

이소룡 Bruce Lee was American movie. She doesn't know. She was too young. She said she didn't have TV 📺 by that time.

[@zzdiong8546]

Fruits are still expensive in Korea 🙈🙈

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

South Korean way of living She's talking about

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

She's an American novelist just born out of Korean origin.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Enjoy your peace when u HAVE enough power to do that. Howard Lee 1975 Myongdong PA 챔피온 다방 앞 소년들이 회색양복이라고 부르는 19세 으냉언 Korea Exchange Bank

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

The First Emperor of USA 🇺🇸 resides in SAMCHONG Palace to

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Cynicism is a good way to escape Wrath.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

I attract USA 🇺🇸 in return. I 동 think it's a fair game.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

In American salad, kimchi is Korean. You have to say kimchi instead of smelling cheese ehen u take photo.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Someday you'd better be eqipped with your intelligence and knowledge of understanding what the hell 1975 Myongdong PA means. Isn't it right recommendation for your whole 라이? I mean life.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Why did we come to America 🇺🇸 ?

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

WE'RE Korea Television 📺 STUDIO 🎙

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

USA 🇺🇸 attracts Best people in the world.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

미국인들이 Asian을 항상 의심과 경계심으로 바라보는 그 이유부터 너희는 먼저 알아야 해.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

What is the tragedy of Korea?

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

I don't know whether she believes in God or not. But, in 1976 when her father moved to America 🇺🇸, I've been a bankman exchanging him dollars And after work, I studied Novel and poems and literature, playwrights

[@jessechen2013]

Her version of Asia is the version Americans love ^ ^; however, 80% not true for someone who traveled in Asia for the last 20 years.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Do not utter or beg Peace unless u have Enough POWER to retain it. Understood?

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

U'd better understand American white women.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

It's not white Supremacy, ma'am.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Communists' hostilities to wealthy people Do u know?

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

한국애들은 태도가 너무 반항적이고 공격적이고

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Since she was too young, she can't know Koreans well.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Japanese are not selfish people. That's what I know. But Koreans can't live without it. Sell fish ness. They even sell raw fish. Don't u know?

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

Communism's greedyness and their outlawed activities Do you know radio activity?

[@jkny771]

You sound like schizo. Go back to sleep.

[@user-bd6dr6nb8p]

한국애들은 말을 돌려서 복잡하게 하기에 짜증과 분노 그것이 혐오와 기피로 이어진단다.