Korean - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A writer in this language was blacklisted in her home country after publishing a novel that retold a student uprising from seven perspectives. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this language used to write the novels Human Acts and We Do Not Part. In an International Booker Prize-winning novel in this language, a video artist seeks to capture his sister-in-law’s “Mongolian mark.”

ANSWER: Korean [or Hanguk-eo] (The novel is The Vegetarian.)

[10e] The 2017 ousting of Park Geun-hye (“gun-HEH”) ended the Korean government’s blacklisting of authors like Han Kang, who in 2024 followed Annie Ernaux in being a female winner of this literary award.

ANSWER: Nobel Prize in Literature

[10h] The sci-fi novel Counterweight, written by an anonymous Korean author who uses this author’s first name as a pseudonym, was translated into English in 2023. This author’s best-known novel depicts the obsessive lesbian relationship between Nora Flood and Robin Vote.

ANSWER: Djuna Barnes [prompt on Djuna] (The novel is Nightwood.)

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	16.00	90%	60%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	15.71	86%	71%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


UCLA	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Chicago D	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Cambridge D	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Cambridge E	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Durham	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	10	10	0	20
Florida A	UCF C	0	10	0	10
Florida B	UCF B	0	0	0	0
Valencia A	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
Michigan D	Carnegie Mellon A	0	0	0	0
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Case Western B	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Michigan State	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
WashU B	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Missoui S&T	Illinois C	0	0	0	0
Illinois B	Missouri	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	10	10	10	30
Brandeis B	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Brown A	10	10	0	20
MIT A	BU	10	10	0	20
Harvard B	Tufts A	10	10	0	20
UMass Boston	Brandeis A	10	10	0	20
LSE	Bristol	10	10	0	20
NYU C	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Oxford C	0	0	0	0
Cambridge B	Sheffield	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Cornell B	10	10	0	20
George Washington B	George Washington A	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	John Jay College	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	Penn A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Yale A	10	10	0	20
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	ESF A	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	RIT B	10	10	0	20
William & Mary	Liberty A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
Duke	UNC B	0	10	0	10
UNC D	South Carolina	10	10	0	20
Virginia A	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
UNC C	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	Georgetown B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	0	0	0	0
Stanford B	Purdue	10	10	0	20
ASU	TAMU	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	10	10	0	20