Cover of Kim Joo-Young's Stingray

Review of “Stingray” by Kim Joo-Young (김주영)

Stingray, by Kim Joo-Young (available for pre-order only!), translated by Louis and Inrae You Vinciguerra, is a tricky and ultimately rewarding piece of fiction which begins by taking you one way, in fact a quite traditional way, and then upping the ante by distorting those traditions. As Stingray begins, narrator Se-Young and his mother are…

My Lunch with the KLTI President – The KLTI is on Facebook and Twitter

I had a lovely lunch, yesterday, with the President of the Korean Literature Translation Institute KLTI), Doctor Joo youn Kim (김주영), Editor-in-chief Kim Sun-hye (김선헤), and Eunji Oh (오은지) from the Education Management Department. One of the interesting things that came out of this meeting is that the KLTI has moved into social media. Now,…