In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is time to announce the November–December 2020 topic challenge.
Based on the number of votes, the last topic challenge fully in 2020 will be
the works of Ko Un
What's a topic challenge?
See the meta posts linked above, and also this main meta post. In short, during November–December 2020 we should all try to read one or more works by Ko Un.
Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the annals of our history. And of course it goes without saying that questions on other works are more than welcome during November and December too; they just won't count as part of this topic challenge.
How can I take part?
By getting hold of any of Ko Un's stories or poems and asking good questions about them. These questions should be tagged with ko-un and korean-literature, and either poetry or a specific-work tag for longer works. We'll keep a list of all such questions in an answer to this meta post.
Below is Eddie Kal's original presentation of this topic challenge, which contains some useful links:
Ko Un is a Korean poet who has remained a top contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Little Pilgrim could be an easy start. Some of his short poems are available online; people can get a taste at Poetry Foundation and on the Brief Poems blog.
What's next?
- The September-October 2020 topic challenge, Nick Joaquin, is still ongoing. So is the October-November 2020 one, Rabindranath Tagore, starting today.
- Vote here for the next topic challenge, or propose your own in an answer there!
