Alona U. Guevarra is an Instructor from the Dept. of English of Ateneo de Manila University. She says: I am very interested in Kim Young-ha’s fiction. I recently taught his two short stories translated into English (Whatever Happened to the Guy in the Elevator and Photo Shop Murder) in my fiction class. My freshmen had a ball!…
The following are the stories I will focus on in second section of my upcoming presentations. The first presentation will be at 10 AM on February 7th. I will be presenting at the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur. Then, on March 31st, I will be doing an updated (and road-tested!) version of the presentation…
A reader asks about humorous translations of Korean literature (LOL, by which I actually mean translations of Korean humorous literature, not translations that make us laugh). As I make my list of translations of this kind of literature, I note how short it is. My list is complete at only five stories and in all…
here is the sidebar on Kim Young-ha that ran in this month’s 10 Magazine (The best English-language magazine in Korea!): “Kim Young-ha: Writer of Darkness in an Empire of Light.”
All the known translations of Kim Young-ha, including several available online.
Just some things we’ve come across: 1) Over at Philip Gowman’s excellent London Korean Links is another chapter in his recent exploits in Korea. Interesting in this case, for a discussion of The House of Choi Champan (and general discussion of ‘authenticity’), where Toji (토지, The Land, written by Park Kyung-ni) was filmed. At the…