Here it is if you aren’t already convinced. Barry and I explain why you should come to Haechi Hall to meet famous Korean authors on December 13. More information here:https://www.ktlit.com/projects/lions/
The authors are: Park Min-Gyu – ‘Dinner with Buffet’ / ‘Is That So? I’m a Giraffe’ 박민규 – ‘버핏과의 저녁 식사’ Park Hyoung-su – ‘Arpan’ 박형서-‘아르판’ Son Bo-mi – ‘Hot Air Balloon’ 손보미-‘애드벌룬’ Oh Han-ki – ‘My Clint Eastwood’ 오한기-‘나의 클린트 이스트우드’ Choi Min-woo – ‘Dishonored’ 최민우-‘이베리아의 전갈 DAY: Saturday December 13 날짜: 12월 13일…
(NOTE: You can also follow KTLIT on Twitter @ktlit) 1) Pavane for a Dead Princess – I am currently working on a review for Pavane for a Dead Princess, by Park Min-gyu) for Acta Koreana, so I can’t say too much myself, but the delightful Tony (despite his Australianity^^) provides us with a review. It’s a good review, and…
The ASIA Publishers K-fiction series kicks of with a powerful bang with Park Min-gyu’s novella, Dinner with Buffet (available on Amazon). It’s a powerful novella, compellingly written, and just about as timely as a work of literature can be. Park Min-gyu is in equal parts satirist and stylist and in Dinner with Buffet his style and…
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…
Park Min-gyu, who The Translator and I have begun to work on, was not on the Wikipedia. He kind of is now… WHAT I STILL NEED TO KNOW IS: Exact birthdate of Park Min-gyu Complete info on the Yi Sang Literary Awards — this would make cross-linking in the Wikipedia so much easier! This is…
The Editor and I have begun to translate some works of 박민규/Park Min-gyu. This is partly the result of a question asked on this blog, “is there humor in Korean literature,” (asked here and sort of answered here) and also because The Editor is a wise man, and many years ago picked Park as an…
Editor’s note: This is the third part of an article by The Translator. In his first post, Succeeding the Success he pointed out the historical reasons, both endogenous and exogenous to translation, for the Korean approach to it. In his second post, Exceeding the Preceding Success, he discussed a new approach to translation. In this,…