이문열’s story “Son of Man,” translated by the irrepressible Brother Anthony of Taize, is available online at The White Review. From the article: This piece was selected for inclusion in the January 2014 Translation Issue by Daniel Medin, a contributing editor of The White Review. He helps direct the Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of…
Just a reminder that you can follow KTLIT on twitter @KTLit or on facebook at ccmontgom, if you want ALL the news about Korean translated literature ALL the time.^^ Kim Young-ha, who is a regular contributor to the New York Times Opinion pages, has a new piece up in which he discusses the current “Hot-Button Medium,” which,…
Also known as “The triumph of the “the Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature Collection” Sometimes I get things horribly wrong. And one of those things was the Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature collection published by Asia Publishers. How wrong was I? I titled my first post about this series, The Death of Self-inflicted Cuts –…
The American Prospect has just published an article on Korean literature in translation, entitle Korean Lit Comes to America, including some comparisons to Japan and China, and it’s worth checking out, and not just because I am in it using my favorite comparison of the place of Korea literature in respect to other translated literatures:…
It was a quick taxi ride from Dongguk University to near LTI Korea and then a two block walk to the front. At which point I realized I hadn’t invited all my readers. so I grabbed a postcard that I mean for all of you: And then it was inside for a quick chat with…
Things discovered while hopping around the web. • First, an online class offered by Portland State University in Korean Literature (by Christopher Hanscom, UCLA). It’s awesome to see that this kind of course being offered, even if the course description is full of a little too much literary theory palaver^^: Border Crossings in Modern Korean…
Of course I completely missed the JeonJu film festival this year, even though I knew that Kim Young-ha was at least going to be a judge, but I also missed the fact that there was apparently a mini-film festival of films based on his works. Not only this, but the article from JIFF also seems…
Beginning with a photo and short caption from the good folks at Yonhap: And followed by an equally brief but amusing tutorial on how to pronounce Shin’s name. I mean, really, “sucrose?” LOL.. that’s gonna send some people to the dictionary! The Facebook Page of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, which features…
From over our buddies over at London Korea Links, an event in London, The challenges of marketing and translating Korean literature explored at the KCC. The post sums sets a problem: Up until now, Korean wave or Hallyu, has been known in the West mainly for Korean food & Gangnam Style, pop artist Psy’s song…
Various things discovered by hopping, skipping and jumping over the web: • From the Korea Times, a report that (at least on the Korean language side of things), there is an erotica genre, and it is being spearheaded (so to speak), by a professor. From the article: One of the biggest achievements of Ma Kwang-soo,…