Another great article from the folks over at SinoNK. This time it’s From Pyongyang to Mars: Sci-fi, Genre, and Literary Value in North Korea. It’s by by Benoit Berthelier, and it begins with 3 paragraphs of rather theoretical stuff, but gets to the really interesting stuff in the 5th paragraph: After a speech delivered by Kim…
What’s the deal with Korean Science Fiction? Does it exist, is it translated? Let’s build a rocketship to Pyongyang!
Gord Sellar points to translated Korean Science Fiction at the website of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
Here is an interesting take on differences between Korean and Western science fiction from over at Gord Sellar’s joint. I don’t really know about science fiction in Korea (after a childhood of inordinate geekhood reading it in English), so Gord’s take is an interesting one to me. The one thing that really resonates is his…