Happy Chuseok to all (both?^^) of my readers…. If you want to make the next year a great one for the Wikipedia Project, you can find me this book in Korea, rather than my having to order it from Amazon and wait 3-6 (minimum) weeks for delivery. Other than that? Stay dry!
KTLIT has reached: 300 posts Over 100 Twitter followers A relatively pathetic 35 followers of the RSS feed Nearly 450 comments, AND….. (drumroll please!) about 5,000 spam comments! (Thank you Askimet!)
Media City Seoul’s “Trust” Exhibition is partly inspired by Kim Young-ha’s “Your Republic is Calling You,” and features two new ultra-short stories commissioned for the exhibition.
You can “read” this ebook of From Wonso Pond, but don’t let your lips move!
Below is the text of my remarks (Korean kindly provided by The Translator): My name is Charles I’d like to begin by thanking TNM for giving me the opportunity to speak here today. And thank you all for listening. 안녕하십니까? 제 이름은 찰스 입니다. 이 자리에서 연설을 할 수 있게 되어 영광입니다. 연설의 기회를 허락해…
Today KTLIT visited the Korean Literary Translation Institute.
Readers, It’s down to the semifinals and I’m mysteriously in it and in 3rd/4th place. So I’m asking fans to vote for me (Or Brian in Cheollanamdo, or whoever else you love immoderately). Is it bad to want to win? 😉
The Korean Literature Translation Institute is sponsoring, in May, a Young Writers Festival in Seoul, Featuring, Kim Ae-ran, Park Hyung-seo, Pyun Hye-young, Junot Diaz, Leena Krohn, and Audrey Kurkov.
The Korea Times (perhaps the most muck-raking English newspaper in Korea) is running its 41st modern literature translation contest. It needs to be a modern work (post 1980), but it can be any work you want. That last point makes me think this must be a very difficult contest to judge. also it is strongly…
An article in the Herald that begins with common knowledge about the literature: Today, its visibility on the international literary market is still marginal at best. As to why this is the case, the answers from local experts have all been varied — sometimes even far-fetched — but one thing most all seem to agree…