FROM THE KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER IN NEW YORK Something to check out if you’ll be in New York at the end of the month. The Korean Literature Translation Institute (KLTI- director Joo Yeon Kim) will be hosting an upcoming KLTI US Forum on both October 25th and October 28th in Binghamton and New York City,…
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,…
Human Decency by Gong Ji Young is one of the smaller works in the Jimoondang series, partly because it is so parochially Korean, pitting a facilely “international” character, who has had the nerve to look outside of Korea, against a “true Korean hero” who has relentlessly stayed inside the grinder of Korean politics. It has…
It is the 39th anniversary celebration of Kyobo books, and the celebration will include some speeches/presentations by famous authors. The important details are: The bookstore conducted a survey on “Great Authors” from May 4 to 15 by questioning some 20,000 readers. The readers selected the top 10 authors whom they would like to meet. The…
Interview With Gong Ji-young & More on Korean Literary “Movements” in a somewhat confused essay at LIST Magazine.
You can see the “final” (of course nothing is final on the internet) result here. It used to look like this (complete with “stub” warning): Now is this strapping page (reproduced in “small-o-vision” to fit the page here):