subject, object, verb (all of those things and more), is a great blog by translators Sora Kim-Russell (김소라), Jenny Wang Medina (제니 왕 메디나 AND Kokkiri), and Jae Won Chung (정재원). It’s been a kind of “on then off” blog because it’s authors are working translators, but the good news is that it is currently quite…
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 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…
Presentations 3, 4, and 5 all in some way or another focused on social media as a tool for proliferating Korean literature overseas. Jean Claude de Crescenzo, a Korean Studies Professor from the University Ais-Marseille, runs the online Korean magazine (in French) Keulmadang which attempts to focus on younger authors. The online magazine has an…
The first presentation was by Marzena Stefanska (Co-founder of Kwiaty Orientu – “Flowers of the Orient) , who discussed the situation of Korean literature in Poland and the world. Marzena put her finger directly on some of the issues that are hindering the spread of Korean literature, and she noted that these issues are preventing…
Two nights before going to the opening day of the Seoul Book Fair I had attended an event at the British Council in Seoul, in support of the London Book Fair, 2014 at which Korea will be the featured country. So I met a few people. As I walked into SiBF, a woman from the…
A nice piece this morning over in the Korea Times titled Korean literature expanding global reach which tracks the initial successes of Korean literature overseas, the redoubtable Hwang Sun-won and Kim Young-ha, through the continued success of translations in many languages including French, Lithuanian, Japan and English (mysteriously, the article shows most of the books…
A piece by startlingly handsome up and coming writer…. well, you will recognize the name.. (Yonhap Feature) LTI Korea charts new strategy to raise profile By Charles Montgomery Contributing writer SEOUL, June 11 (Yonhap) — When Antonio says early in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest “What’s past is prologue,” he is saying that what has…
New Director of LTI Korea, Kim Seong-kon, makes an interesting point in the Korea Herald: “Every Korean author should have something available to pop up when someone Googles their name in English. It makes a huge difference.” This is not the current state of affairs, and it is something that could be dealt with rather…
All the references aren’t in yet, but it looks like this: Oh Young-su From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oh Yong-su Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1914-1979 This is a Korean name; the family name is 오. Oh Yong-su (born 1914) (Hangul: 오영수) is a South Korean writer. Contents [show] [edit] Life Korean author Oh…