Found on the Web

Found on the web #27: Cool Korea site; Gord Sellar on “agency”; poet cleared

• A new, cool, site called koreanology. It deals with all aspects of Korean culture including language and popular culture. I’m particularly impressed by its multi-post discussions, such as Introduction to Yu Deukgong’s “Nostalgic Reflections of the Twenty-One Capitals” 二十一都懷古詩 (1792). I should say this sort of thing has much more meaning to me now that…

Found on the Web #25 – Factory Girls, LKL on Buckwheat, and NSFW

This notice for an upcoming event is probably not as useful as the book the event is focusing on. Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence and Representation in Industrializing Korea – Presentation by Ruth Barraclough. Korea’s twentieth-century industrialization saw millions of women and girls leave country towns to generate a series of manufacturing booms. Ruth Barracloght…

Found on the web #21: Yi Mun-yol in Kindle and lecture, Daesan Foundation Grants

A COUPLE OF THINGS I FOUND INTERESTING 1) Daesan Foundation Grant-For-Translation Deadline: 31 May 2012 The DAESAN FOUNDATION, which promotes the “enrichment of Korean culture” and the “globalization of Korean culture,” supports the translation, research, and publication of Korean works to foster the globalization of Korean culture and to advance cultural exchange. The Foundation’s Translation…

Found on the Web #20

A few things of some interest, but not worthy of entire posts. • First, HanCinema (in a designation that is amusing to me) labels Shin Kyung-sook “the future of Korean literature.”  It is just possible that there is a more nuanced take on this^^ but nuanced takes aren’t really what this article does: [Interview :…

Found on the Web #19

A couple more things found on the web that don’t merit a full post, but deserve being noted. First, an excellent interview with Yi Mun-yol, possibly Korea’s greatest translated man of fiction (partly because he’s had a relatively large number of works translated, partly because he’s just that good^^). The interview is part of a…