First, a review from the Gwangju Blog of Ko Un and his novel Hwaom-kyong (화엄경). The review discusses the historical background of the work, Ko Un’s history, the work’s style, and pretty much everything else except judging the piece critically. The book appears to only be in Korean, so use this review as a way…
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…
Friday was a quick trip to the Seoul International Book Fair 2011. This would mark the third consecutive trip I’ve made to it, and it always presents me with some treats. In this case I saw many of the usual suspects. As I entered the hall (3,000 won for the price of admission) I immediately…