This year is 30th anniversary of ICF, which was established to introduce Korean art & culture to the world and promote international exchanges. KTLIT has been invited to participate in the colloquium. I should be entirely out of my league as Brian Boyd, Brother Anthony, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Young-Jun Lee, Young-Min Kwon, and Kyung-Sook Shin…
I first noticed this news in an email update from Kokkiri at the excellent Subject Object Verb. Yi Mun-yol has had his story An Anonymous Island published in the New Yorker, which is certainly good news. Unfortunately, it is a subscription/pay by the story deal, so you’ll have to pay to read the thing. This…
Heinz Insu Fenkl wrote an interesting paper, “Asian American Literature and Korean Literature: Common Problems and Challenges from a Segyehwa Perspective.” The paper moves around the kind of problems I currently see in some Korean Translation – that as a literature already suffering from the asymmetricality inherent in being a smaller language and smaller culture cannot waste its “shots.