Korean Modern Literature in Translation

UPDATE: Go ahead and trust focloir^^, though the interface with Amazon may be creaky (3)

1/26/12 •

UPDATE: I received a very nice response from focloir in reply to my complaint with them and it has exactly turned me around on them. I am temporarily keeping part of my splenetic original post at the bottom here (mainly so people can laugh at how Korea’s tin-pot culture has become part of me), but [...]

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1/16/12 •

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