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…
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…
(A version of this piece originally appeared in Yonhap News) If most people are asked to imagine early rappers, they most likely do not conjure up the picture of a Korean man, dressed in humble clothes, sheltered from the rain by no more than a straw hat, walking across Korea with a staff, finding his…
This is a project I’m glad to say KTLIT had a hand in. We talked to the Review as they were planning things (actually, we also met them in Seoul and their posh Hong Kong offices!), and KTLIT provided the team that interviewed (and translated the interview) with Shin Kyung-Sook. This volume is a treasure-trove…
Yun Dong-ju is often known as a poet and patriot. He was arrested by the Japanese more than once, and was a firm believer in conserving important element of Korean culture during Japanese colonialism. There is some suspicion that his death might have been the result of Japanese medical experimentation (191). The Heavens, the Wind,…