By Charles Montgomery and 이채원 Every year KTLIT visits the Seoul International Book Fair, but this year the event was both a bit smaller and more scattered than in previous years, due to the MERS panic of the previous summer, which resulted in postponement and meant that several major participants were scheduled elsewhere. On the…
A few snaps from the awesome SiBF 2013. Props to all the organizers. Lots of great booths, even better seminars, and a bunch of authors who were worth seeing, only if for their shocked reactions when a “foreigner” came up to them and asked for their autographs. I’m already looking forward to the Seoul Book…
An Exhibitor’s Pass to the Seoul International Book Fair (Thanks to Marzena Stefanska). An autograph of Park Bum-shin Autographs from Lee Dong-ha A picture with Lee Dong-ha. I went down to get him to autograph my books, and he asked my how the translations were. Then, someone associated with him thought a snapshot…
Presentations 3, 4, and 5 all in some way or another focused on social media as a tool for proliferating Korean literature overseas. Jean Claude de Crescenzo, a Korean Studies Professor from the University Ais-Marseille, runs the online Korean magazine (in French) Keulmadang which attempts to focus on younger authors. The online magazine has an…
LOL.. beyond ridiculous…. I guess they’ll be exporting these books to all those other countries that only speak Korean?
DATELINE^^: Mugungwha, somewhere outside of Danyang, rolling on to Gangneung! LTI Korea is getting ready for the upcoming Seoul Book Fair (19 – 23 June 2013, HallA&B, COEX, 159 Samseong-dong, Seoul 135-731, Korea -), the halls of which KTLIT will certainly be haunting. While I was over at LTI having lunch and discussing the Wikipedia Project,…
Thanks to our awesome intern Joanne, we now have information on the author presentations at the Seoul Book Fair as well as the literature discussions. Here are the authors (to see pictures you can go here: (LINK NO LONGER LIVE): and here are the Literature Seminars
In an article titled subheaded, “Giant book event to feature exhibitions, seminars and meetings with authors” the Herald talks about next week’s book fair. The 17th Seoul International Book Fair, one of the biggest book events in Korea, opens June 15 at COEX in southern Seoul with a total of 572 publishers from 23…