It is etymologically related to the Latin word “cunnus” which also has a common English language word descended from that same etymology.

I think that the echo of that common English language word is far stronger than the echo of Cicero.

Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy by Tatiana Gabroussenko of the Australian National University was named to the Choice magazine list of outstanding academic titles for 2012.

Soldiers on the Cultural Front represents the first consistent research on the early history of North Korea’s literature and literary policy in Western scholarship.

http://ks316.moore.hawaii.edu/wp/?tag=tatiana-gabroussenko

So, for those serious about scholarship on the 3 major Korean Literatures (ROK, DPRK, and other [China, Russia, etc.]), this is a milestone work.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/01/27/2012012701031.html

Rather than embarking on a quixotic drive to have foreigners learn Korean, if ROK wanted to have foreigners appreciate Korean culture, they would foster translations of Korean genre literature.

Korean manga, for example.

Korean mysteries

Realistically, VERY few will ever learn Korean.

But MANY more might come to appreciate South Korean culture.

This is so odd, it almost smells like an example of Korean nationalist thinking, rather than an element in a well-conceived plan to raise the stature of South Korea in the world.

Also, picked up a couple of other really interesting books/monographs/etc that look like they will be quite handy.

So, good advice!

Now I can’t wait to get back to the States this summer and actually get my hands on the things.^^

Also Abebooks.

For other works, see:

http://eap.einaudi.cornell.edu/taxonomy/term/89 that contains an entire translated novel as an appendix
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernbeisser/2469709564/ the grave of Han Sorya (한설야선생 )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernbeisser/2472020361/in/photostream/ Grave of Lee Ki Yung 리기영선생

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernbeisser/2473255766/in/photostream/ Grave of Hong Myong Hui

And, of course, the monthly “조선문학” http://www.eastview.com/russian/periodicals/product.asp?sku=P14409&Choson/munhak/Pyongyang/North/Korea/Korean/

I think that really no one has gone through DPRK literature to see whether any of it is any good, and how much.

Of course, most of it is propagandistic drivel, but there are DPRK children’s book, poetry, science fiction, mysteries etc. and not all of it is likely top be drivel.

In considering the Soviet Union, for example, not everything written during the darkest years of the USSR was bad; some was and is quite readable and interesting.

Or, consider this lecture
http://www.asian-studies.org/absts/2007abst/Korea/k-115.htm
on DPRK science fiction and children literature

Dafna Zur
http://www.kmu.ac.kr/programs/search/search.jsp?kwd=zur&x=7&y=16
http://ubc.academia.edu/DafnaZur/About
near you in Daegu has studied both Korean literature in translation and also DPRK science fiction and DPRK children’s literature.
There MUST be an interview there.
Here is her number:
http://cms.kmu.ac.kr/golink.jsp?url=http://cms.kmu.ac.kr/wizard/wizard/frames/frame3_1.jsp?right_page=1_1.html&command=subPage&menu_type=T&_page=left.html&client_id=kor

The great novel by Sholokhov, for example, for which he won a Nobel is an example of good literature from a bad country.

As such, it is a pity that the ROK, which assertedly represents intellectual freedom, forbids all of this material.

A free society ought not to act like a deeply closed society.