Me on TBS eFM’s 1013 Main Street. In honor of Teacher’s Day and the upcoming anniversaries of the Gwangju Rebellion and Massacre, we discussed Yi Mun Yol’s brilliant Our Twisted Hero, which manages to pack a ton of political-allegorical punch into a slight novella obstensibly about boys in a classroom in rural Korea. https://www.ktlit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1205120515_charles.mp3 for…
As most readers know, each Tuesday morning I go on TBS eFM at 10:12 (or so) to discuss Korean literature on 1013 Mainstreet. Today I talked about poet Kim Hye-soon, and the following is a pre-transcript of that conversation, with the links I mentioned on-air, down at the bottom of this post (so scroll straight…
Or so.^^ I talk for 15 minutes about Korean Literature in Translation with host Ahn Junghyun. You can listen to all this splendor online by going over to the 1013 Mainstreet Page and clicking on the ‘on air’ button (Most likely you will need IE 6 and all the typical foolishness required by Korean websites…
Posting may be light for the next few weeks as we travel around the United States (although this means the Translator and Editor will have a bit of time to get their drink on!), but for now, a sound-file with Charles Montgomery of KTLIT talking a bit about humor in translated Korean literature, some other…
Last week, as I sometimes do, I had the awesome opportunity to be on TBS eFM – which is the primary English speaking radio-station in Seoul and, I should say, all of Korea.^^ The subject was the Seoul International Book Fair and always friendly Ahn Juhghyun and I talked for about 15 minutes about the…
Tune in this morning just after 11 (Seoul “tomorrowland” time) to hear The Editor discuss Shin Kyung-sook’s “Please Look After Mom” and what it might mean for the future internationalization of Korean modern literature. 10 minutes or so of the purest ear candy!
For those of you in Korea who don’t have to work bright and early on a Monday morning, please tune in to TBS eFM at 11 am tomorrow. It’s the Steve Hatherly show, and I’ll be on it talking a bit about Korean literature in general, and certainly about Ko Un, who just became the…
KTLIT was invited onto TBS eFM’s Evening Show to talk about the importance of Park Wan-suh to Korea’s literary scene and the international scene. I was a bit fuzzy and babbled on a little bit. PakWanSuh
Another exciting edition of PageTurner on TBS eFM. Michael Rhee and KTLIT’s own Charles Montgomery talk about some problems with current translation approaches that have been revealed by research into book sales and popularity. The short version: Publish outside of Korea to VASTLY increase the chances of success. page1108_4
An interview of Charles Montgomery on TBS eFM Suggesting Where to Begin in reading Korean Literature.