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