(NOTE: You can also follow KTLIT on Twitter @ktlit) 1) Pavane for a Dead Princess – I am currently working on a review for Pavane for a Dead Princess, by Park Min-gyu) for Acta Koreana, so I can’t say too much myself, but the delightful Tony (despite his Australianity^^) provides us with a review. It’s a good review, and…
Coming up next at Korea.net, “People Begin to Party like it’s 1999!” LOL… sometimes you just have to wonder what is going on in the minds of Koreans who like translated Modern Korean literature, or Korean literature in English. On June 24, 2014, Korea.net breathlessly reports, in an article titled Korean novels in English: ‘A Sketch of The Fading…
Soil Yi Kwang-su is, as far as I can tell, the spiritual godfather of the modern Korean drama. Better known as the father of Korean modern literature (for his work, Heartless), his stories are laced with love triangles, betrayals, defeats, revenges, and in the case of The Soil (흙) a spectacularly failed suicide attempt. Doomed…