Park Min-gyu, who The Translator and I have begun to work on, was not on the Wikipedia. He kind of is now… WHAT I STILL NEED TO KNOW IS: Exact birthdate of Park Min-gyu Complete info on the Yi Sang Literary Awards — this would make cross-linking in the Wikipedia so much easier! This is…
The Editor and I have begun to translate some works of 박민규/Park Min-gyu. This is partly the result of a question asked on this blog, “is there humor in Korean literature,” (asked here and sort of answered here) and also because The Editor is a wise man, and many years ago picked Park as an…
Kim Won-il is now up on the Wikipedia. And it looks a bit like this: Kim Won-il Kim Won-il Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1942-Present Genres Modern Korean Fiction Notable work(s) Evening Glow This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim. Kim Won-il (born 42) (Hangul: 김) is a South Korean writer.…
Im Chul-woo, who has two works translated into English (The Red Room, My Father’s Land) is now up on the wikipedia here. And it looks a lot like this: Im Chul-woo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Im Chul-woo Born October 15, 1954 (1954-10-15) (age 56) Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1954-present…
The KTLIT Wikipedia Project has put another author up. It is Lee Kyun-young. The page is here, and it looks something like this: Lee Kyun-young Lee Kyun-young Born December 30, 1951(1951-12-30) Died November 10, 1996(1996-11-10) (aged 44) Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1951-1996 Genres Modern Korean Fiction Notable work(s) The Other Side of Dark Remembrance…
Primarily known in English for “The Preview and Other Stories.” The page looks a little like this: Cho Seon-jak (born 1940) (Hangul: 조) is a South Korean writer. Life Cho Seon-jak was born in Dajeon, South Korea[1] Cho Seonjak graduated from Daejeon Teachers’ School and debuted with The Tomb of the Patriots (Jisachong) which was…
Last night at a super Nanoomi/Tatter & Media party last night, I presented a bit on the Wikipedia Project and got a really good response from various folks in the crowd – with luck this will lead to a bit more involvement from Koreans? In any case, this inspired me to put up a small…
It is here.. and it looks something like this: Life Moo-Sook Han was was born October 25, 1918 in Seoul and graduated from Pusan Girls’ High School.[1] She initially studied fine arts but switched to literature after she married Kim Zin-hoong in 1941.[2] She has five children. Active in literary and artistic circles as well,…
As it turns out? You ‘beat’ the “Orphan” tag on Wikipedia by linking Koreans from the “famous persons” sections of the pages for their cities and regions… Who knew?
It turns out that when you add pages that have only one or two links IN to the page, some eager beavers add an “orphan” tag which doesn’t threaten the existence of the page, but makes it look unprofessional and blocks the top of the page. In order to fix this, other pages need to…