And just in time (LOL) the English pages are complete… here is the Book Fair online And over there on the right are some of the books I intend to get autographed at the Seoul International Book Fair. Hop on over to Seoul Selection (LOL, if you are in Seoul, of course) and you too can be…
A really interesting project related to Kyoung-sook Shin’s “I’ll Be Right There” on Pinterest. Timothy Holm (can be reached on twitter at: @paratize) has taken the locations, art, books and music, and the history and people mentioned in “I’ll Be Right There” and he has photographed or chased down the references and put them up on Pinterest.…
Soil Yi Kwang-su is, as far as I can tell, the spiritual godfather of the modern Korean drama. Better known as the father of Korean modern literature (for his work, Heartless), his stories are laced with love triangles, betrayals, defeats, revenges, and in the case of The Soil (흙) a spectacularly failed suicide attempt. Doomed…