The Star & Other Korean Short Stories (Unesco Collection of Representative Works), translated by Agnita Tennant is available on Kindle for rent at $16.05 and for purchase at $38.36, which is a bit pricey, but can be had in hardback for as low as $4.69 used (Use this link to find it, as the…
Some really great authors here, Yi Sang, Kim Ae-ran, Ch’oe In-Ho and more. 13 stories of translated Korean literature that you can read online for free! Ch’oe In-Ho Deep Blue Night Korea Journal (PDF) Vol.35. No.4 Winter, 1995 Ch’oe In-Ho Hwang Chini 1, Dead Person (Translated by Benjamin Cheung, Na Youn) Vol.11 No.3 December 2008 Ch’ŏn…
This is another way (other than that link you see on the right: Where to Start in Korean Modern Fiction) to gain a quick understanding of Korean Modern Literature. That way is to collect the books in the excellent LTI Korea / Jimoondang collaborative series The Portable Library of Korean Fiction. These books are now,…
A Distant and Beautiful Place is a stunning and well-translated collection of short stories from Yang Kwija. Like Cho Se-hui’s The Dwarf (and similar on more than just this one ground) A Strange and Beautiful Place is a yŏnjak sosŏl, or an intentionally connected series of short stories gathered together in a collection. These works…
As part of the “All Modern Korean Literature in Translation Online” project KTLIT has some new authors and works available (they are also in the big database at the link above): Ch’oe In-Hun A Sonata of Lost Spring Ch’oe Song-Yu Mountain Berries Chong Ch’ol Exile Ho Nansolhon Till her fingers cramp… Hwang Sok-Yong Mr. Han’s…
A new project. To find all the places online where you can read translated Korean Modern Literature, free ( Here are the works so far (I still have to get all the Korea Journal articles before 1989 and many of the works translated by Brother Anthony). If you know of a work that is NOT…
I previously knew Yang Gui-ja (her preferred Romanization) from the small book, Rust, which contained that title story and the accompanying Swamp. About these two stories I noted: Yang Gwi-ja’s two stories in the book Rust, which is eponymously named for one of the stories it contains, are Rust and Swamp. If that combination of…
OK.. sorry if that title is a bit cutesy, but I couldn’t resist. Last post I reviewed Rust by Yang Gui-Ja. Today I gave my Dongguk students their first assignment that will feed into the KTLIT Wikipedia Project. Don’t worry, it’s academically appropriate for them. I gave them the list of un-paged authors from Wikipedia’s…
Review of two of Yang Gui-ja’s stories named Rust and Swamp in a Jimoondang publication.