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Ko Un wins 2014 Golden Wreath Award

Ko Un, as he has done for years, continues to increase the profile of Korean poetry abroad. Ko has been a tireless traveler, promoter, and most importantly of all consistent writer. I should also say, that his work has generally been extremely well translated by Brother Anthony of Taize, and that his poetry seems fundamentally…

A barely veiled attack on Ko Un?

An interesting article to try to suss out over at East Asia Insight. It is a (clearly translated) article that attacks Korean Poets for “romanticism” (which apparently means drunkeness, among other things) and sets out a new vision. It is written by the site-manager Sang-Yong Lee. It blind-refers to a poet, who I have to…