Last Friday we reminded you of our great 10 Magazine/Seoul ABC video interviews (example, Hwang Sun-mi talking (in full-techni-bilinguality!!) about “The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly“). But we go beyond that, far beyond that on the ktliterature video channel… We have Charly getting drunk reading “The Boozer” We have Barry and Charly arguing over…
Sometimes you just can’t beat the man, and this seems to be one of those cases. The JoongAng Daily has just done a piece about how important book podcasts are becoming in Korea. JoongAng says, “the publishing industry in Korea has been tapping new ways to approach its readers – including podcasts. Each month, more…
For a brief and glorious period of time, Barry Welsch from the SeoulABC website and King of Korean Literature, and I once took the opportunity to visit it and chat with Barry. We discussed the Wikipedia Project, where to start in Korean literature, and all the other things we normally would.^^ It’s a touch less…
For all you hipsters, hipstettes, anti-hipsters, hippies, and even those of us old enough to worry about breaking our hips, and dying alone and unloved on our bathroom floors, it is becoming increasingly clear that video is a big part of the future of the Internet. Thus it is with some trepidation (and truly camera-unworthy…
As usual, three things culled from the web in a series of short hops, skips, and jumps. • An excellent short story in Guernica, by KTLIT favorite Krys Lee. As usual, it’s a bit dark, but also lyrical and, if you’re in the short attention span theater, it’s also very short. It’s called Girl on…
KTLIT has been in contact with Oh Jeeyon, from Penguin Books, about Hwang Sun-mi’s upcoming publication of The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly which is scheduled to be released (available on Amazon) on November 26, 2013. Ms. Oh was nice enough to forward to me the following pre-publication information/buzz (which includes that happy news…
It’s always reassuring to me when Korean scholars seem to agree with me^^, and then it brings out the contrarian in me. Thus it is with this article in the Korea Times, ‘Universality’ holds key to develop K-literature by professor Joo Yoong-hee a professor of classic Korean literature at the Academy of Korean Studies. Joo argues that…
Yi Mun-yol was born in Cheongun-dong in Seoul and attended prestigious Seoul National University, studying Korean Literature. He dropped out in 1970. From 1994 to 1997, he taught Korean language and literature at Sejong University. Since 1999, he has served as the head of Buak Literary Center. In 1999, he was awarded the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts. Yi was also a…
A good article (LOL, not just because it quotes me) over at KoreAm Magazine, discussing the (so far) failure of Korean literature to take off in the same way that some other Korean cultural representations have. It’s Korean Literature Still Lost in Translation: Waiting for K-lit to Take Flight, by Chelsea Hawkins (who, I should note, is…
Patrick Lauchang, not only took third place in the contest, but was hands-down winner on how to present an essay^^ and has a really great academic writing style. He also lives in Korea, so I hope to come across him one of these traveling days. Here is his essay titled, …