“You could say that writing a short story and making a movie are essentially the same for me in terms of trying to communicate.” Read Lee Chang-dong on his short story, “Snowy Day,” which appears in the latest issue of the magazine.
,” a private is on sentry duty with his superior, a corporal, when, as the title suggests, it starts snowing. Why did you choose this scenario as the basis for a story?
Private Kim was a student before enlisting, and he seems singularly ill-suited to military life, whereas Corporal Choi worked in a bathhouse and appears to have a much tougher skin. How important is the question of class in the story? Does it color every detail of their interaction? Of course, the Communism to be crushed refers to North Korea. Large slogans like these are still posted at South Korean military bases, not only to raise the fighting spirit in soldiers but also to inspire ideological hostility. During military regimes, slogans like these could often be seen on city streets as well as on military bases. Now those slogans have disappeared from the streets, but they remain inside people’s minds.
The scene of the morale-booster performance at the Base Church was entirely based on what I saw in the military. Although I adapted the parts necessary for the development of the story, I tried to re-create it as I witnessed it, as much as possible, and I did not embellish or add spices to make it feel romantic.
You published the story in South Korea in 1987. Does South Korea feel like the same country thirty-five years later? Could you imagine writing the same story today? What was it like to return to “Snowy Day” when you were working with your translators Heinz Insu Fenkl and Yoosup Chang?
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