Kim Hoon lectured tonight at LTI Korea, on the complications of Korean language and how to become a better writer. The first part I picked up as he repeatedly said versions of “어려운” in Korean.^^ The second bit was passed along to me by LTI Korea webmaster and all around SNS wizard Park Chanwoo. Hoon…
As KTLIT tweeted yesterday (yes, you can follow KTLIT on twitter at @KTLIT): Park Wan-suh’s Lonesome You in @ltikorea /Dalkey Archive collection to publish November, is immediately the best selection of her work! And it is true, partly because Lonesome You is the most complete volume of Park Wan-suh’s (the way she chose to Romanize…
Stingray, by Kim Joo-Young (available for pre-order only!), translated by Louis and Inrae You Vinciguerra, is a tricky and ultimately rewarding piece of fiction which begins by taking you one way, in fact a quite traditional way, and then upping the ante by distorting those traditions. As Stingray begins, narrator Se-Young and his mother are…
Yesterday was the inauguration of the English bit (actually, a couple hundred pages) of the Wikipedia Project. Thanks to the excellent work of LTI Korea, the pages in German are already complete. We are still looking for folks who can do Japanese and Chinese pages, so contact me if that is you <said in a…
For those of you who will be listening to me tonight (at 7pm Seoul time and then again on Monday morning at 5am Seoul time) on Arirang’s “Catch the Wave.” I discuss some cool things going on in Spanish, and the Literature Translations Institute’s Annual Essay Contest (You can find a link to the live…
It’s been a little slow around here, but here’s why: LTI Korea and KTLIT begin “Wikipedia Project” collaboration. After a meeting last week at the office of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) in Samseong-dong, LTI Korea and the Korean Translated Literature website (KTLIT) have agreed to a six-month project, the “Korean Literature…
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…
A few snaps from the awesome SiBF 2013. Props to all the organizers. Lots of great booths, even better seminars, and a bunch of authors who were worth seeing, only if for their shocked reactions when a “foreigner” came up to them and asked for their autographs. I’m already looking forward to the Seoul Book…
Once more, mad props to LTI Korea for putting this seminar together – it was everything it needed to be: Frank, friendly, informative, at times critical, and at the end pointing at directions towards the future. Congratulations to President Kim Seong-Kon, Helen Cho, Park Chanwoo, and all the other staffers who brought this thing home…
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…