Convalescence, by Han Kang, is perhaps her most formulaic work in translation – it fits it well with late Pak Wansuh’s Identical Apartments: Jeon Seung-hee’s “Kong’s Garden, Bae Suah’s Green Apples; and a host of novellas that all essentially tell the same story, albeit in slightly different ways – the story of the alienation of the young woman…
The GREAT Lee Ki-ho and three equally skilled authors writing about the Korean/foreign interface. (For Faceebook people who want to share on other platforms: https://www.ktlit.com/4-great-korean-authors-interviewed-bilingually-dec-19-2015-lee-ki-ho-baik-sou-inne-geum-lee-and-lee-jang-wook/ 한국문학을 밝히는 젊고 창의적인 4 명의 작가들을 12월 19일에 서울에서 만나보세요. 이 특출난 한국 작가들이 명동에 위치한 서울글로벌문화체험센터에서 작품을 낭독하고 인터뷰를 할 예정입니다. (한국어와 영어로!) 질의응답 시간에 작가들에게 질문도 할 수…
The Wikipedia Project, while slowed down, still continues, mainly focusing on books from the excellent bilingual books from Asia Publishers. And so, today, with the help of Kim Mi-ri, two more pages go up. The first is of Yun I-hyeong the author of “Danny” (Asia Publishers) a book about the meaning of family and relationships in…
And so I did in the annual LTI Korea Video Contest ‘Visualize ME!” with my entry on Kim Yu-Jeong’s “The Heat of the Sun” a tragic story of love and illness in colonial Korea. Also, I might note, a story that is available from LTI Korea’s brilliant “classical literature” online collection. I really didn’t see…
NOTE: If you’re in Seoul you can see Han Kang in person (bilingually) at the Seoul ABC Book club, which I will be moderating. As its title suggests Han Kang’s The Vegetarian is a meditation on appetites – ones that society can’t fill and the implications of not “swallowing” what society offers. The tale…
I first noticed this at the indispensible Literary Saloon in a post titled International Dublin Literary Award nominations ( Hat tip to the inevitable^^ M.A.Orthofer). The article mentions an award given annually by the Dublin City Council. The list of nominated books has come out, and for those of us who love translated lKorean fiction the results are not…
And so it was last night, as two of my awesome students (이채훤 and 백용규) served as interpreters at The Korea Observer and the Foreigner Entertainers Association (FEA) rooftop party for foreign entertainers in South Korea with the support of the Senior Public Diplomacy Group under the Foreign Ministry. They both did “public” interpretation of…
Really easy… IF YOU HAVE FACEBOOK GO TO THIS PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/LTIKorea/posts_to_page WHERE YOU WILL SEE THIS: FOLLOW THOSE PESKY ARROWS TIL YOU SEE THIS: AND THEN JUST CLICK ON THAT “Likes” BUTTON. THEN YOU ARE ALL DONE AND CAN CONTINUE ON YOUR NORMAL PLANE OF EXISTENCE, SAVING CHILDREN, DONATNG BLOOC, AND WORKING FOR DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS.…
By Charles Montgomery and 이채원 Every year KTLIT visits the Seoul International Book Fair, but this year the event was both a bit smaller and more scattered than in previous years, due to the MERS panic of the previous summer, which resulted in postponement and meant that several major participants were scheduled elsewhere. On the…
Dear Yonsei students, Thank you so much for attending the lecture tonight (and don’t forget to go vote for my YouTube video!). Attached here is the PPT I used, and you will note that in some places it has explanatory notes that you did not see on screen. Thanks again, Charles from KTLIT