NECESSARY INTRO: Because of the blog, I was invited to take a tour of Korea by bus. It is called the K-shuttle, and it offers tours from 2 days and 1 night up to 5 days and 4 nights, and its intent is to quickly introduce a visitor to the many cultures and histories of…
NECESSARY INTRO: Because of the blog, I was invited to take a tour of Korea by bus. It is called the K-shuttle, and it offers tours from 2 days and 1 night up to 5 days and 4 nights, and its intent is to quickly introduce a visitor to the many cultures and histories of…
This is kind of sad… shopping at What the Book (the most well-known new and used English bookstore in Korea) with my friend from the 10 Magazine book club an he notes that the number of NEW Korean titles (fiction that is) has shrunk dramatically. I go over to the used section and the same…
Beginning with a photo and short caption from the good folks at Yonhap: And followed by an equally brief but amusing tutorial on how to pronounce Shin’s name. I mean, really, “sucrose?” LOL.. that’s gonna send some people to the dictionary! The Facebook Page of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, which features…
I think I might want to work for this outfit!
I’ve been editing about 400 abstracts for a prestigious Korean journal – everyone of them about translations and translation problems. These have been fascinating as they point out differences in the languages that I had never even dreamed of thinking of. Some are obvious, like differences in sentence structure and underlying differences in culture that…
This notice for an upcoming event is probably not as useful as the book the event is focusing on. Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence and Representation in Industrializing Korea – Presentation by Ruth Barraclough. Korea’s twentieth-century industrialization saw millions of women and girls leave country towns to generate a series of manufacturing booms. Ruth Barracloght…
WHAT IS IT? An awesome opportunity for those of you among KTLIT readers and Catch the Wave (Arirang International Radio) Listeners who are into Korean Literature. Early Spring, Mid-Summer is one of the 10 excellent collections published in the Modern Korean Short Stories series by Si-sa-yong-o-sa Publishing and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO. And…
Place any game piece (a 100 won coin will do) on the start square Using one die, roll and follow the directions on the red or green squares The winner is the first player to become and “author” (note, to make it more difficult, you can require the winner to land on the “author” square…
The Lee Hyoseok Buckwheat Festival (named after his super famous in Korea short story “When Buckwheat Blossoms Bloom”) was on this weekend, so the wife and I decamped. The bus ride down was uneventful and only took two hours, thankfully a full half-hour shorter than the guidebooks said. We got to Jangpyeong (the nearest town…