Recently, I was interviewed by Arirang TV’s INNERview, and that show has now aired. However, it is also available on YouTube (in segments), or as a complete Video On Demand on the Arirang site. If you would like a taste of what I look (ugh!) and sound like, here is a short clip about my…
Of course I completely missed the JeonJu film festival this year, even though I knew that Kim Young-ha was at least going to be a judge, but I also missed the fact that there was apparently a mini-film festival of films based on his works. Not only this, but the article from JIFF also seems…
Kim Young-ha’s new novel, 살인자의 기억법 (The way the Murderer Remembers? I can’t figure out how 법 is working there^^) has an interesting topic: A mass murderer with Alzheimer’s disease. Here (Korean language) is the cool new trailer for it, which is worth watching just for the vaguely unsettling imagery:
When Alice Munro won the Nobel Peace Prize last night over candidates including Korean poet Ko Un, who had been rising in the odds (up to third place behind Murukami and Munro according to this recent article), it meant another year of speculation in Korea as to when, and if, it’s Nobel Prize literary breakthrough…
After running up to $249.00 used, Kim Young-ha’s Photo Shop Murder skyrocketed to $1,174.23 for a new copy. However, it has now apparently become a bull market, as my latest check revealed: And one of my retirement plans hits the dust.^^
Alona U. Guevarra is an Instructor from the Dept. of English of Ateneo de Manila University. She says: I am very interested in Kim Young-ha’s fiction. I recently taught his two short stories translated into English (Whatever Happened to the Guy in the Elevator and Photo Shop Murder) in my fiction class. My freshmen had a ball!…
“The Scary Thing is Not Evil. It’s time. You cannot win this dance? Anyone with better Korean than mine (all of you) chime in. And note how cleverly I seem to have cut off the book title..
And I GAVE a copy to Chocoballnoona! Here it is.. and it made me wonder about some of the other LTI Korea/JImoondang books, so I did a bit of research below. Kim is the most highly-priced author, but others are following The Camellias (Quite funny and quite good) and The Rainy Spell (pundan…
Kim Young-ha, a friend of this site, has released a new novel A Murderer’s Way To Memorize (in Korean). Aligned with that release is an animation.. Here is the animation (and below it is a quick translation courtesy of our AWESOME intern Kim Ha Ryung): Ms. Kim notes that: please do state that the creator of…
I was hanging about in some of the tawdry local bookshops I do… and I saw two new (used) books that had been sold by some woman named Catherine Peck (obnoxiously, she wrote her name into the inner covers of books she the sold – really.. what are these inscribers afraid of? Do they think…