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SiBF: Memories, Awards & Nosh

Once more, mad props to LTI Korea for putting this seminar together – it was everything it needed to be: Frank, friendly, informative, at times critical, and at the end pointing at directions towards the future. Congratulations to President Kim Seong-Kon, Helen Cho, Park Chanwoo, and all the other staffers who brought this thing home…

Decent article in the Korea Herald @ strategies for increasing success of Korean Translated Lit overseas

  Kim Seong-kon, who is a professor of English at Seoul National University and editor of the literary quarterly 21st Century Literature writes a bit about the obstacles Korean Literature faces overseas. The article is titled, K-pop is not enough on its own,   Although Professor Kim completely ignores the success Kim Young-ha has had (admittedly, it pales…