This seems publishable enough to me, and is out of Korean copyright protection (SUBSECTION 3. DURATION OF AUTHOR’S PROPERTY RIGHTS)? Both Young-ji Kang (the translator here, who has given me permission to post this) and I hope this is a case for some kind of crowd-funding to get the job finished? Or a lovely grant. Lee Hye-Seok (Webpage…
The Lee Hyoseok Buckwheat Festival (named after his super famous in Korea short story “When Buckwheat Blossoms Bloom”) was on this weekend, so the wife and I decamped. The bus ride down was uneventful and only took two hours, thankfully a full half-hour shorter than the guidebooks said. We got to Jangpyeong (the nearest town…
Yesterday’s post on the Lee Hyo-seok Village was in preparation for the creation of his Wikipedia page which is now here and looks a little like this: Lee Hyo-seok From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Lee Hyo-seok Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1907-1942 This is a Korean name; the family…
Lee Hyo-seok is a beloved Korean author best known for his story When Buckwheat Blossoms Bloom. In recognition of his importance to Korean literature, a Memorial Village and Festival have been created in his honor. When Buckwheat Blossoms Bloom is set in his hometown Bongpyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang-gun) and the area is still famous for its buckwheat…
Heh, second one I’m aware of (the first one was Park Wan-so) on Google Korea. Buckwheat Seasons was not one of my favorite Korean translations as it is is too dilatory and completely lacks a conclusion, but many other readers love it and it is considered a classic Korean tale. The doodle is up to…
A couple of things found on the web.. First, from the estimable Zen Kimchi, a trip to Pyeongchang to explore buckwheat cuisine in the land that Lee Hyo-seok immortalized in Buckwheat Flowers. Having eaten buckwheat noodles in Seoul, I can attest to their tastiness.^^ Second, a fine new blog on Korean literature the Korean Literature Blog…
My feelings for Lee Hyo-seuk’s “The Buckwheat Season” (which you can download a pdf of here) and its relentless translation and re-translation are well known (I had a slash at it here), but when my foodie pal Jennifer Flinn invited Yvonne and I out to eat at a restaurant named for the story, and featuring…
Over at the Korean Cultural Center I checked out a copy of Modern Korean Fiction An Anthology, Edited by Bruce Fulton and Youngmin Kwon. While I do have serious reservations about this anthology, I have to say that if you judge the anthology in a vacuum, it is certainly an adequate introduction to Korean modern…
I came across a slim volume entirely dedicated to “When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom,” which is a translation of the title I don’t think I’ve seen before. But this book translates Buckwheat into English, French, Spanish, Chinese (two different dialects) and rounds off with Buckwheat in the original Hangul.