An interesting article from last year on the new trend of serializing books on the web even before publication. The Translator gave his amusingly skeptical opinion of this trend here, which was in response to the editor’s posts, here and here. Serializing novels is an old Korean tradition – but in the past it was…
The Translator says — I think the recent re-serialization on the Internet by established authors is “merely the literary elite finally catching the tail of the internet beast and trying to ride it for advantage.” Some background information to support my opinion: Korea’s serialized novels on newspapers began with the idea of educating the public.…
In Part One of this series(?) I talked a little bit about the historical fact that Korean authors have often published their works serially, in newspapers and magazines. As I’ve thought about this a bit more, and done some reading, I’ve tentatively concluded: This was a conscious social effort at modernization with a strong latter…
Korea’s first newspaper was the Hansŏng sunbo, which published three times a month, but only for one year. More newspapers quickly followed (Lee 338). In the modern era, Korean newspapers have generally been far more literary than those in the US – in fact quite consciously so. Newspapers have sought out links with authors and…