Ch’oe In-ho, who died last year was known as a prodigious drinker (“guzzler”) and in 2014 his hand-prints were memorialized on the sidewalk of Yonsei-ro, where he frequently drank. He also wrote a bit about drinking, one work of which was “Boozer” in which Ch’oe’s narrator is a young boy in “search of this father”…
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…
It is the 39th anniversary celebration of Kyobo books, and the celebration will include some speeches/presentations by famous authors. The important details are: The bookstore conducted a survey on “Great Authors” from May 4 to 15 by questioning some 20,000 readers. The readers selected the top 10 authors whom they would like to meet. The…
Choi In-ho’s Tower of Ants is a short, but compelling, story about alienation and sacrifice.