As part of the next of the 5 Dalkey Press Korean Literature Series (more about that awesomeness tomorrow!), Ch’oe In ho’s Another Man’s City has been translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, whose imprimatur as translator is always a good sign. Ch’oe is perhaps most famous for his work The Square, which compared the two underlying…
Ch’oe In-ho, who died last year was known as a prodigious drinker (“guzzler”) and in 2014 his hand-prints were memorialized on the sidewalk of Yonsei-ro, where he frequently drank. He also wrote a bit about drinking, one work of which was “Boozer” in which Ch’oe’s narrator is a young boy in “search of this father”…
Sadly, Choe In-ho (Choi In-ho) passed away today after a battle with cancer. Choe was a skilled author who was translated into English in the following works (The work names are links to reviews here): Deep Blue Night Jimoondang Press (May 31, 2008) ISBN 89-88095-62-6 Tower of Ants Hollym International Corporation (December 31, 2004) ISBN 1-56591-202-0 The Boozer In – Land…
And I GAVE a copy to Chocoballnoona! Here it is.. and it made me wonder about some of the other LTI Korea/JImoondang books, so I did a bit of research below. Kim is the most highly-priced author, but others are following The Camellias (Quite funny and quite good) and The Rainy Spell (pundan…
Some really great authors here, Yi Sang, Kim Ae-ran, Ch’oe In-Ho and more. 13 stories of translated Korean literature that you can read online for free! Ch’oe In-Ho Deep Blue Night Korea Journal (PDF) Vol.35. No.4 Winter, 1995 Ch’oe In-Ho Hwang Chini 1, Dead Person (Translated by Benjamin Cheung, Na Youn) Vol.11 No.3 December 2008 Ch’ŏn…
This is another way (other than that link you see on the right: Where to Start in Korean Modern Fiction) to gain a quick understanding of Korean Modern Literature. That way is to collect the books in the excellent LTI Korea / Jimoondang collaborative series The Portable Library of Korean Fiction. These books are now,…
A new project. To find all the places online where you can read translated Korean Modern Literature, free ( Here are the works so far (I still have to get all the Korea Journal articles before 1989 and many of the works translated by Brother Anthony). If you know of a work that is NOT…
This post is a short review of papers and commentaries presented during the 6th Hahn Moo-sook Colloquium in Korean Studies at George Washington University in 1999 (At the end of this post you can find the authors and their topics). These papers include some by very heavy hitters indeed, including the recently deceased author Pak…
Choe In-ho’s Deep Blue Night is one of my favorite of the Portable Library of Korean Literature translations, partly because it’s theme is so accessible to a western reader. It is a combination of a travelogue and that most quintessential American literary form, the buddy road-trip. The story begins with a scene reminiscent of the…