I don’t normally “do” poets, but the Asia Literary Review is publishing an All-Korean volume next month, and Kim Hyesoon is likely to be published in it. In expectation of that happening, I thought it would be useful to have something up on the Wikipedia. It is here,and it looks a little like this (obviously,…
Yesterday’s post on the Lee Hyo-seok Village was in preparation for the creation of his Wikipedia page which is now here and looks a little like this: Lee Hyo-seok From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Lee Hyo-seok Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1907-1942 This is a Korean name; the family…
I came across this awesome tool (Wikipedia article traffic statistics) for measuring hits on Wikipedia pages. It is a bit limited as you can only measure the last 90 days at once, but it does give a kind of snapshot of where pages are. Even the author of the tool hedges: Q:Is the data reliable?…
After Tuesday’s awesome meeting with Shin Kyung-sook, I finally got around to putting her photo up on the Wikipedia. Any Korean authors (or reps) who might drop by should feel free to contact me about putting up pages and photos of their authors.^^
New Director of LTI Korea, Kim Seong-kon, makes an interesting point in the Korea Herald: “Every Korean author should have something available to pop up when someone Googles their name in English. It makes a huge difference.” This is not the current state of affairs, and it is something that could be dealt with rather…
All the references aren’t in yet, but it looks like this: Oh Young-su From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oh Yong-su Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1914-1979 This is a Korean name; the family name is 오. Oh Yong-su (born 1914) (Hangul: 오영수) is a South Korean writer. Contents [show] [edit] Life Korean author Oh…
Just saw the wonderful movie “Punch” (Wandeugi 완득이) at the Yongsan theater and was so impressed I raced home and created a Wikipedia page for the author, Kim Ryeo-ryeong. It’s pretty stubbish right now, but here it is:
A little late night fix-up on Gong Ji-young on the Wikipedia. Given that the movie The Crucible (Titled Silenced in English) is about to come out in the States, I thought it was time to do a little cleanup on Gong Ji-young on the Wikipedia. So I added some info, cleaned up some errors, and…
After accidentally mis-spelling his name, it is here, and looks like this: Cho Hae-il From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cho Hae-il Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1941-present This is a Korean name; the family name is Cho. Cho Hae-il (born Haeryong) (Hangul: 조) is a South Korean writer. Life Cho Hae-il was born…
Strange Oh Jung-hee wasn’t there, because she’s had a quite a great deal translated, but now she is, and if you have any additional info on her, feel free to send it to me. It looks a little like this: Oh Jung-hee From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oh Jung-Hee Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea…