Also known as “The triumph of the “the Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature Collection” Sometimes I get things horribly wrong. And one of those things was the Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature collection published by Asia Publishers. How wrong was I? I titled my first post about this series, The Death of Self-inflicted Cuts –…
From over our buddies over at London Korea Links, an event in London, The challenges of marketing and translating Korean literature explored at the KCC. The post sums sets a problem: Up until now, Korean wave or Hallyu, has been known in the West mainly for Korean food & Gangnam Style, pop artist Psy’s song…
Various things discovered by hopping, skipping and jumping over the web: • From the Korea Times, a report that (at least on the Korean language side of things), there is an erotica genre, and it is being spearheaded (so to speak), by a professor. From the article: One of the biggest achievements of Ma Kwang-soo,…
The Korea Herald and other outlets are reporting on the final release date for the LTI Korea/Dalkey Archives collection the “Library of Korean Literature.” The Herald says: The first 10 volumes of Dalkey Archive Press and the Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s Korean literature series will be hitting U.S. bookstores on Nov. 16, the Korea-based translation…
Well.. this is rather horrible. The phrase “Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature” is rendered as: At least they got the first collection right:
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…
It’s been a little slow around here, but here’s why: LTI Korea and KTLIT begin “Wikipedia Project” collaboration. After a meeting last week at the office of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) in Samseong-dong, LTI Korea and the Korean Translated Literature website (KTLIT) have agreed to a six-month project, the “Korean Literature…
This time a 300 Second introduction to the excellent Asia Publishers series of 15 Bilingual Korean novels. The works include: “The Wounded” by Yi Cheong-jun, “Soul of Darkness” by Kim Won-il, “Sun-i Samch’on” by Hyun Ki-yong, “Mother’s Stake 1” by Pak Wansŏ, and “The Land of the Banished” by Jo Jung-rae.“Record of a Journey to Mujin” by Kim Seung-ok, “The Road…
Two good articles in the Korea Herald, which may be doing the best job (in English at least) of covering translation of Korean literature and related issues. First is an article on friend of the blog Marzena Stefanska, a translator and publisher who works in Polish, although she lives in London. The article includes a…
Previously: I) Hyangga and Koryeo Kasa II) Sijo & Kasa III) Classical Fiction IV) Pansori V) Introduction to Modern Literature VI: Enlightenment VII: Background to Colonial Lit VIII: The History of Korean Modern Literature IX: Themes & Approaches to Fiction X: The Colonial Era XI: War and Separation Era XII: Han Miracle! XIII: The Prehistory of Postmodernism “Modern”…