Why 'The Odyssey' resonates with Koreans
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Quick summary- 1Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has become the second film this year — and the 10th foreign film in Korean box-office history — to draw more than 10 million…
- 2Now its blockbuster momentum is spilling into bookstores, reviving interest in one of literature’s oldest epi
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has become the second film this year — and the 10th foreign film in Korean box-office history — to draw more than 10 million moviegoers. Now its blockbuster momentum is spilling into bookstores, reviving interest in one of literature’s oldest epics. Books related to “The Odyssey” sold nearly 31 times as many copies last month as they did a year earlier, according to Kyobo Book Centre, one of the country’s largest bookstore chains. Sales of books with “Odyssey” i
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