133: Juhea Kim (A Love Story From The End Of The World)

Charlie and Juhea Kim (A Love Story From The End Of The World) discuss Juhea's fantastic largely environmental and philosophical short story collection. This is a book that looks at the problems with our present as well as the possible futures that may result from them.

General references:
Rocky
Groundhog Day
In The Mood For Love
Kpop Demon Hunters

Books mentioned by name or extensively:
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
Juhea Kim: A Love Story From The End Of The World
Juhea Kim: the Divine Comedy
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master And The Margarita

Release details: recorded 29th August 2025; published 24th November 2025

Where to find Juhea online: Website || Instagram

Where to find Charlie online: Website || Instagram || TikTok

Discussions

01:25 The ordering of the stories in A Love Story From The End Of The World. We then go on to discuss the last story in the book and environmentalism
05:56 Looking at the theme of time and using metaphors
12:59 The ending of the first story, Biodome, the film adaptations, and the way Juhea ends her stories on a more general scale
19:45 Notting Hill (the story in the second person) and Juhea's writing of that point of view
24:07 The story Mountain Island and its themes of consumerism and pop idols
29:05 The philosophy, the question of god, in the stories as per two quotes from Juhea's book
37:14 What Juhea is writing now, a novel called The Divine Comedy

Photo credit: Nola Logan