Tuesday-VIDEO: 300 Seconds With; Bad Book Covers and Translation
Today’s Tuesday Video: 300 Seconds With; Bad Book Covers and Translation. You think books covers are unimportant to the success of Korean Literature? Think again!
300 Second Sunday… Yi Mun-yol
Yi Mun-yol was born in Cheongun-dong in Seoul and attended prestigious Seoul National University, studying Korean Literature. He dropped out in 1970. From 1994 to 1997, he taught Korean language and literature at Sejong University. Since 1999, he has served as the head of Buak Literary Center. In 1999, he was awarded the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts. Yi was also a…
300 Second Sunday: A 15 novel collection from Asia Publishers
This time a 300 Second introduction to the excellent Asia Publishers series of 15 Bilingual Korean novels. The works include: “The Wounded” by Yi Cheong-jun, “Soul of Darkness” by Kim Won-il, “Sun-i Samch’on” by Hyun Ki-yong, “Mother’s Stake 1” by Pak Wansŏ, and “The Land of the Banished” by Jo Jung-rae.“Record of a Journey to Mujin” by Kim Seung-ok, “The Road…
300 Second Sunday: Video introduction to Kim Young-ha
A new thing here, once or perhaps once every two weeks, a 300-second video exploring some aspects of Korean literature. Many lessons learned creating this first one (Charles is ugly, back-lighting makes him even uglier) and the editor’s wife had some good design input. Still, here is the first “300 Seconds on…”