After nearly three years at the helm of LTI Korea Seong-Kon Kim, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University,Literary Critic, Film Critic, Literary Translator, Korea Herald Columnist, and a whole lot more (a complete list is at the bottom of the interview) sat down with KTLIT writer Allie Park for a wide ranging interview about…
KTLIT Contributing Writer Allie Park recently interviewed noted translator Brother Anthony, who among many other accomplishments, is the translator of poet Ko Un‘s Maninbo and is a nationalised citizen of Korea. 1. What prompted you to start translating Korean poetry in 1988? A: I’ve always had a penchant for translating and nobody seemed to be translating…
영어 및 한국어! (or just English, if you prefer). For updates, you can find me on twitter. On May 24th, Korean-American author Chang-rae Lee (A Gesture Life, Aloft, The Surrendered, Native Speaker, On Such a Full Sea) stopped by Haechi Hall for the 10 Magazine / Seoul ABC Book Club interview. Lee talked about why he…
Chi-Young Kim, translator extraordinaire (Please Look After Mom and Your Republic is Calling You, among a string of triumphs) and sometime chum of KTLIT, took time out of her busy schedule to do an interview with KTLIT (actually, an interview for the students in my Ph.D. class, who are extremely interested in Kim’s experience and…
Two contributors, the Editor and the Translator arrived at Le Café, near exit 7 of Yangjae Station, about 15 minutes in advance of our meeting. Our photographer arrived a few minutes later, and author Han Gang arrived exactly at the stroke of 3, as we had arranged. Then, she was quickly bustled off to a…
Today I had the chance to interview Kim Young-ha. This is always pretty funny, because I feel like we get along pretty well, although we’ve only met a few times. Still, I’m reduced to a bit of a fanboy in his presence, which is pretty funny considering my advanced age. At any rate, the interview…
Last year, in the course of working on an article on Kim Hyesoon for Yonhap, I was privileged enough to interview poet Kim Hyesoon (about whom you can find more information on Wikipedia, in a page KTLIT put up^^) via email. Special thanks to Joanne Yoon for doing the translation of the questions and KTLIT’s…
Some time ago, for 10 Magazine Korea, I interviewed LTI Korea CEO, Kim Seong-Kon. That interview was quite brief, but it came in the context of this much longer one, which demonstrated his wide cultural interests and knowledge. The director spoke broadly, engaging in cultural analysis, discussing international music, and even the differences in international…
NOTE: This is from my piece in 10 Magazine, to which you should immediately subscribe! In person, Shin Kyung-sook is modest and restrained, but there has been nothing modest or restrained about the success of her book Please Look After Mom(엄마를 부탁해). The book was named an Amazon top-10 book of the year while entering…
A great interview with Shin Kyung-sook, by from the Fine Dining Lovers website. Some parts of it are funny, even from a translation perspective as when the interviewer notes: she speaks no English: she looks at me with interest and responds to my questions quickly, in a curious language full of melodic sounds, and often…