More on North Korean Literature & poet Jang Jin-sung

An interesting additional piece, Reclaiming North Korean Literature, by Shirley Lee, which Words Without Borders added after their first “collection” of pieces on North Korean literature, which KTLIT talked about here. One of Ms. Lee’s money quotes is: The literature of North Korean exiles is written from a viewpoint we feel we can identify with,…

Excellent Resources on the KLTI Site

I’ve been looking around the Korean Literature Translation Institute website and they’ve quietly created quite a powerful research tool. I’ll look at aspects of this site over the next few days and will begin with what I think would be an excellent classroom resource for teachers outside Korea who are teaching Korean culture, or for…

North Korean Literary Theory

In three recent posts the Translator and I discussed the political impetus behind Korean fiction and its serialization. Now, in an interesting article in the Korea Herald, Choi Yearn-hong talks about North Korean Literary Theory, which is not only intensely political, but explicitly so: North Korean literature promotes socialist ideology, new technology and Puritan communist…