This is in Japan Focus, but it focuses on Korean culture, particularly fiction and cinema, and how they relate to history, specifically the Kwangju Uprising. The article beings: 2010 will be a year of commemorations in South Korea. The 25th of June will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the beginning of the Korea War. Midway…
As reported over at the Herald, The publication rights for the best-selling South Korean novel “Take Care of My Mother” have been sold in 15 countries, with the first overseas edition to be published in China next year, a local agency said Tuesday, according to Yonhap News. I can’t seem to find the article, but…
I shouldn’t be so cranky about this, but the Korea Times has an article about its translation contest winners in which, well.. read it.. Korea Times President and Publisher Park Moo-jong hoped more English translations of Korean literature would boost the chances of a Korean winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in the future. “It…
In the Korea Times, more Korean discussion about the need to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. Once again the focus is a bit off to me.. One of the women featured says: “Jessica and I have always talked about the lack of English translations of Korean literature and movies. Although there are many good…
UPDATE: and the Literary Saloon mentions me as well. π The United Nations Staff Recreation Council has a webpage and they’ve taken my article whole.Β (Alas, link rotted) This is their mission 1. The purpose of the Society is to promote and disseminate Korean culture and traditions among its members and among members of the United…
LOL – the title is a bit of a cheat, since the next two authors bring the total up to 5 currently in print and as many as 8 potentially available. π In any case, here is an interesting but brief list of the favorite Korean novelists of Koreans from the Korea Times. Interesting to…
According to Arirang, by way of the Chosun Ilbo. That’s only 40 a year, and I’d be interested to discover how many of these were books of poetry. No surprisingly Yi Munyol leads the list with most books translated. Actually not a bad choice as “Our Twisted Hero” is a good novelette and “Two-fold Song”…
Because I’m guessing the United States isn’t “ready for Sijo.” Harvard Professor David McCann clearly shares an interest in Korean Literature, but I’m afraid he is a popularizer who doesn’t get what is going to sell to the US public. McCann wants to try to sell Sijo (A form of Korean poetry) to the US…
Good news from the Korea Times, which managed to evade me when it first came out. The main point of this is that there is a powerful demographic of women in their 20s and 30s that is purchasing Korean Literature. I’d hope that the more they buy, the more is published and eventually, it will…