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…
A very interesting first session of the Seoul International Forum for Literature 2011, though also a somewhat grueling one as the first half of the session rang 2.5 hours and the moderator grudgingly gave us an 8-minute break, before the next 2 hours. The title of session was The Globalizing World and the Human Community…
Reviewed here, “The Last of Hanako” contains that story and “The Gray Snowman.” Both of these stories were quite popular in Korea.
Bruce Fulton addresses what I consider the main flaw of his translations – that they are often works that no one would read for fun.
A really great interview with Ch’oe Yun from the Inevitable Dissident. The interview was done in 2008, when Yun’s “There a Petal Silently Falls,” was first published. The Dissident notes: “There a Petal Silently Falls,” the first volume of Ch’oe Yun’s fiction available in English (from Columbia University Press), is made up of a trio…
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…
Random Korean Literature Links
Bruce Fulton discusses “yoryu chakka ” or women’s literature in Korea.
Korean modern literature is relatively agency-less. As a result, the anti-social hero is rare in Korean literature and the tragic hero is even less evident.
Bits about Yangsook Choi, Kim Young-ha, Ch’oe Yun, and Park Kygong-ni.