Seoul Village Publications

FREE EBOOKS (NEW: ALSO AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS, NEOVEL, AND WATTPAD):

Seoul Villages - on Google Play Books

Free ebooks available from SeoulVillage.com: 

- 'Seoul Villages' (fiction, 2020):

• Don't try to escape this ghost neighborhood, don't waste your energy tearing off that plant, and don't even think about catching Korea's most elusive shaman: you just can't shake off death. So let this fictional Seoul claim your soul.
• "A series of love letters to Seoul and its many alleyways" (Korea Times 20200506 - "Short story anthology explores magical realism in Seoul's alleys") 
• "Let's dive into the surreal world built by this urbanism enthusiast" (KBS World Radio) 20200626 - 'Seoulscope - Seoul Villages')
  Download on Google Play Books. (also in French)
  Read on Neovel.
  

- 'Seoul villages' international editions:

• Korean edition: "울 마을들: 귀신동 그리고 다른 서울 도시 전설들": https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=tke-EAAAQBAJ (KR)
• Bilingual English-Korean edition: "서울 마을들 (Seoul Villages - Bilingual Edition): 귀신동 그리고 다른 서울 도시 전설들"
  https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=dV6-EAAAQBAJ (EN/KR) 
• French edition: "Seoul Villages : Guisin-dong et autres villages de Séoul"
  https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Gc9qEAAAQBAJ (FR)
  "Une série de lettres d'amour à Séoul et ses nombreuses ruelles" (The Korea Times)
  "Plongeons-nous dans le monde surréaliste bâti par ce passionné d'urbanisme" (KBS World Radio)
  "Rarement je me suis plongée avec autant de bonheur dans un livre écrit par un Occidental sur la Corée! Stéphane Mot voit la Corée de derrière, la Corée des invisibles. La Corée des esprits et des chamanes, Séoul, ses rues, son âme et ses âmes qui me touchent tant. Bravo !" (Juliette Morillot)

- 'Guisin-dong' (fiction, 2012):

• Don't expect to find Guisin-dong on any map; just make sure it never finds you.
• Download it by clicking right here: Guisindong2012StephaneMOT.
• Or download on Google Play Books, read online on Wattpad.
  

- 'Year of the dog' (fiction, 2007):

• Yes, Seoul dogs are humane
• Download here: YearOfTheDog2017StephaneMOT. 
• Or download on Google Play Books, read online on Wattpad. 
• En Francais ('L'annee du Chien'), lire en ligne sur Wattpad.
  

- 'Hunting for Kim Mudangnim' (fiction, 2004):

• Meet Seoul's most elusive shaman.
• Read online on Wattpad.
  

- 'Songdo, DMC: Sequence is of the essence' (Seoul Village, 2013). also available here.

• A 2013 parallel between the two mega projects. See also:
  * "Inhuman, all too human Seoul" ("Seoul: inhumaine, trop humaine")
  * all posts related to Songdo, the DMC, and urbanism
  * all tweets mentioning urbanism @theseoulvillage 

About Stephane MOT, the author:

French author (with a weakness for fiction, satire, and nonsense) and conceptor (with an unhealthy interest in strategy and innovation).

• About "dragedies - la mer amarree":If 'dragees' are sweets you offer to somehow exorcise festive events, these 17 dragedies nonsensically announce death. Some bits can taste sweet, sour, sad, or funny, and you eventually choke on them (in a final lexicon, I define humor as "the ability to accept death in general and one's weakness in particular, in order to make life in general more acceptable, and one's existence in particular more bearable to others").

• About "Impressions papier hanji":Published by Atelier des Cahiers, this anthology proposes short stories about Korea by four female Korean authors and six male French authors (Alain ROBBE-GRILLET, KIM Ae-ran, Francois LAUT, KIM Da-eun, Antoine COPPOLA, CHOI Myeong-jeong, Eric SZCZUREK, EUN Hee-kyung, Michel LOUYOT, and Stephane MOT).

• About "La Ligue des Oublies - l'autre histoire du football":'The League of the Forgotten - The Other History of Football' tells the stories of unlucky soccer players, personalities or events that didn't even have the chance to exist.

• About the rest:
  . graduated from ESSEC, survived 3 start-ups, boosted 1 go-far, defines writing as his "most embarrassing bodily function".
  . his fictions have appeared in various anthologies in French (Breves, Impressions Papier Hanji), and in English (Every Other Sunday, Out of Place).
  . his 'junk writing' overflows a rudimentary waste sorting system consisting in one blog for each 'vertical': Korea (SeoulVillage.com), Weapons of Mass Disinformation (blogules.com), innovation (mot-bile), soccer (footlog).... his 'non-junk non-fiction' is occasionally published by serious media about serious issues (in France, Korea, the US).