As usual, avoiding real work and cruising the web I come across a few useful links.The first one had to do with with science fiction in Korea, by old Korean Science Fiction hand Gord Sellar who wrote a post titled,Articles on Korean SF in _list Magazine. I originally intended to note it in a “found on…
• A new, cool, site called koreanology. It deals with all aspects of Korean culture including language and popular culture. I’m particularly impressed by its multi-post discussions, such as Introduction to Yu Deukgong’s “Nostalgic Reflections of the Twenty-One Capitals” 二十一都懷古詩 (1792). I should say this sort of thing has much more meaning to me now that…
>Yes, Yes.. it’s time again for “Found on the Web,” today featuring an eccentric and hard-bitten author, an eccentric and hard-bitten blogger, and an eccentric law. First, over at Famous Author Gord Sellar’s blog, an admittedly idiosyncratic list of books about Korean history/politics. As a bonus, Gord goes on to list 5 books on North…
What’s the deal with Korean Science Fiction? Does it exist, is it translated? Let’s build a rocketship to Pyongyang!
Gord Sellar points to translated Korean Science Fiction at the website of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
Here is an interesting take on differences between Korean and Western science fiction from over at Gord Sellar’s joint. I don’t really know about science fiction in Korea (after a childhood of inordinate geekhood reading it in English), so Gord’s take is an interesting one to me. The one thing that really resonates is his…