{"id":121407,"date":"2026-05-28T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=121407"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:09:12","slug":"without-readers-i-wouldnt-have-come-this-far-actor-writer-cha-in-pyo-returns-with-5th-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=121407","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Without readers, I wouldn\u2019t have come this far\u2019: Actor-writer Cha In-pyo returns with 5th novel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Cha In-pyo, an actor and writer, his fifth full-length novel, \u201cOur Neighborhood Library,\u201d is about what has motivated him to keep writing for 17 years: an abiding sense of gratitude to his readers. \u201cA novel is started by an author, but it is the readers who complete it,\u201d Cha said at a press conference in Jung District, Seoul, on Wednesday. \u201cI poured that gratitude into this book.\u201d The book is Cha\u2019s first novel in two years. This time, he turns to metafiction, following a contemporary writer referred to as \u201cI,\u201d who writes about a painter in Goguryeo, an ancient Korean kingdom that existed from the first century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. In doing so, he contemplates desire, death and the meaning carried by records. At the press conference, Cha opened with modesty and gratitude \u2014 an echo of the theme running through his new book. \u201cThere are so many excellent writers in Korea,\u201d Cha said. \u201cI don\u2019t think what I\u2019ve done is anything particularly special. That makes me all the more grateful to be here.\u201d \u201cOur Neighborhood Library\u201d opens with a writer i<\/div>\n
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