Amazingly happy news at a US bookstore! Meeting one of my ex-students from Dongguk University, and we chose to meet for coffee at a bookstore with a coffeeshop in the back. I walk into the front door of the Elliot Bay Bookstore (an unbelievably great bookstore in Seattle, WA. Address: 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 Phone:…
1) “Wherever you go? There you are.” This was a difficult book to review, paradoxically because I liked it so much^^. And it is currently available on Amazon UK NOT the root Amazon site. Kyung-Sook Shin’s I’ll Be Right There (Originally titled: 어디선가 나를 찾는 전화벨이 울리고, or something like “Somewhere the Phone is Ringing”)…
Once again (ok, for the second time) Charles Montgomery from right here at KTLIT and Barry Welsh from SeoulABC get together to discuss Korean literature, particularly the Jimoondang/LTI Korea Collection of books and Hwang Sun–mi’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. For those who might be interested in particular aspects of the video, a…