Over at the Korean Cultural Center I checked out a copy of Modern Korean Fiction An Anthology, Edited by Bruce Fulton and Youngmin Kwon. While I do have serious reservations about this anthology, I have to say that if you judge the anthology in a vacuum, it is certainly an adequate introduction to Korean modern…
As a result of noting that there really isn’t much info on the web about Korean authors, we’re trying to put some information up right over here. So far we have: Cho Se-hui Ch’oe Yun Kim Yong-ik Yi Mun-yol But as this all goes up, it is also being ported to the Wikipedia, with the…
The Portable Library of Korean Literature • Short Fiction • 2 • Jimoondang Publishing • Seoul Those who dwell in heaven have no occasion to concern themselves with hell. But since the five of us lived in hell, we dreamed of heaven… Each and every day was an ordeal. Our life was like a war.…