<p>Once a month, I read a book written in Korean that hasn’t been translated into English and bring it to you. Not because I enjoy being the only one who can read it — though honestly, sometimes — but because some of the most interesting thinking about Korea is happening in Korean, and it deserves a wider audience.</p><p>This month's book is <a target="_blank" href="https://yoonjiwon.substack.com/p/what-pain-makes-visible-korea"><strong>“What Pain Makes Visible”</strong></a><a target="_blank" href="https://yoonjiwon.substack.com/p/what-pain-makes-visible-korea"> (</a><a target="_blank" href="https://yoonjiwon.substack.com/p/what-pain-makes-visible-korea"><em>아프면 보이는 것들</em></a><a target="_blank" href="https://yoonjiwon.substack.com/p/what-pain-makes-visible-korea">)</a>. It's a collection by thirteen medical anthropologists asking one question across thirteen very different kinds of suffering: whose pain does Korean society take seriously, and whose does it quietly set aside?</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://yoonjiwon.substack.com/p/what-pain-makes-visible-korea">The newsletter </a>and the podcast ended up dividing the labor like a very efficient little content union: the newsletter covered <strong>postpartum wind, the humidifier disinfectant disaster, and infertility</strong>, while this episode takes up <strong>HIV stigma, the Sewol ferry disaster, and Korean-Chinese caregivers</strong>.</p><p>Same book, different route.If the <a target="_blank" href="https://yoonjiwon.substack.com/p/what-pain-makes-visible-korea">newsletter was about care</a>, this episode is about recognition.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Understanding Korea, One Story at a Time at <a href="https://yoonjiwon.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">yoonjiwon.substack.com/subscribe</a>