Now is the time to trot out the winners of the KTLIT-Catch The Wave (Arirang) Essay Contest, beginning with Bronze Medal and working our way up to Gold. The bronze medal winner for non-native English goes to Yew Pei Juan. Pei Juan’s essay came in at the very last minute, but I liked it. Anyone…
Part One of this series is here and now that she has published her piece the ‘famous author’ I mentioned there was Krys Lee. If there is one thing the West does know about Korea, it is North Korea. From cliché bad-guy leadership to some kind of nuclear threat, North Korea pops up regularly on…
One of the cool things the Korea Literature Translation Institute does is put out a quarterly magazine called LIST. It’s aimed at overseas publishers and introduces them to Korean fiction that would be good translation/publication material. It’s out this summer, and KTLIT is in it with Charles Montgomery’s Sometimes You Have to Laugh: The Lighter…
(NOTE: This is the first bit of my effort to recreate the narrative of how I got interested in Korean literature, what it’s meant to me, and a little bit about the literature itself. These essays, if that is the word, will be collected under the “Finding Hong Gildong” menu at the upper right. This…
It’s a semi-momentous occasion here at KTLIT. Today represents the one-year anniversary of the creation of the KTLIT page here at www.ktlit.com. The blog has actually run much longer, but was irregularly maintained and moving to this domain was a try to move into the real world. In the real world we judge website success…
KTLIT is now a featured blog at Nanoomi Net.
A lovely article about KTLIT at Media 우늘 written by Jeonghwan Lee.