The Korea Herald notes that Asia Publishers has just put out a 15-volume bilingual Korean literature series, titled Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature. But it seems to feature all the usual suspects and previously translated works. Really? This is getting past ridiculous. I suppose the defense will be that this volume is for “Korean Studies” courses,…
The 2012 Korean Literature Essay Contest Call for Papers Date: 2012-11-30 The 2012 Korean Literature Essay Contest The Center for Korean Research (CKR) at Columbia University, in partnership with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Undergraduate Initiative, invites students to enter the 2012 Korean Literature Essay Contest. This contest is sponsored by the Korea Literature Translation…
A nice article in the JoongAng daily, beginning with the excellent movie Wandeugi (Punch in English) which of course came from a juvenile novel: One of the first works of literature to deal with the immigrant experience was the novel “Wandeugi” (2008) by Kim Ryeo-ryeong, which describes the obstacles faced by a multiethnic family in…
This is post two of a multi-post series. You can find post one, discussing the history of gays and lesbians in pre-modern literature here. And part three is now here. Yesterday we talked a little about the the role of gays and lesbians in pre-modern Korean fiction. Today’s question turns towards the “modern” period of…
This is another way (other than that link you see on the right: Where to Start in Korean Modern Fiction) to gain a quick understanding of Korean Modern Literature. That way is to collect the books in the excellent LTI Korea / Jimoondang collaborative series The Portable Library of Korean Fiction. These books are now,…
Mysterious commenter AskGodot left a response to the “All Modern Korean Literature Online” Project in which he pointed out another great resource, the Words Without Borders list of 31 articles translated from Korean to English. It is mainly poetry, but there are some nice fiction: Earnie Fiction by Lee Gi-ho Camel’s Eye Fiction by Hwang…
A new project. To find all the places online where you can read translated Korean Modern Literature, free ( Here are the works so far (I still have to get all the Korea Journal articles before 1989 and many of the works translated by Brother Anthony). If you know of a work that is NOT…
Over at 9,999 Seas [to the] Left, there is an interesting brief review of Oh Jung-hee’s Wayfarer (ALAS a now-dead site). 9,999 says: I have a weak spot for mysteries that offer an answer and leave me puzzling over the question. The review was also interesting to me because it discussed issues of agency (which I…