Nak-chung Paik is Editor Emeritus of the South Korean literary-intellectual journal, The Quarterly Changbi, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Seoul National University and honorary chairman of the Korean Peninsula Peace Forum. He is the author of The Division System in Crisis, Minjokmunhakkwa segyŏmunhak 1 & 2 (Ethnic National Literature and World Literature 1 & 2), Sŏyangŭi kaebyŏksasangga D.H. rorŏnsŭ Lawrence (The West’s Transformative Thinker D.H. Lawrence: A Western Thinker of ‘the Great Opening’) and has written for New Left Review, and Critical Asian Studies, and The Asia-Pacific Journal.
