Part I: Twitter and Facebook Part II: Amazon What about Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a key form of Social Media for several reasons… the most important being that this is where English speakers go to get information. That perhaps is a simplification – they go to Google to get information, but in the case of something…
Part I of this series: Facebook and Twitter Part III: Wikipedia Last post discussed Twitter and Facebook , and how representatives of Korean fiction are not adequately represented there. Here are the best measurement tools I could come up with on that (March 28, 2012): Facebook can’t be directly queried, so far as I know,…
This is basically the spoken version of the essay posted here yesterday. LOL, at KTLIT we cater to ALL learning styles (coming soon, the interpretive dance version). Discussion of the general issue and how Twitter and Facebook are and aren’t being used by institutions with interest in the success of Korean translated literature. https://www.ktlit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1205120327_charles.mp3…
Part II: Amazon Part III: Wikipedia One of the increasingly powerful and popular ways to advertise or to create a brand is through the use of social media. This is also one of the most efficient ways to do so and interested parties in Korean translated literature should be exploring these avenues. Currently, unfortunately, those…
Lifted entirely from Yonhap: South Korea to participate in Bologna children’s book fair SEOUL, March 15 (Yonhap) — South Korea will open the Korean Pavilion at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair to be held in Bologna, Italy from March 19-22, the culture ministry said Thursday. About 700 children’s books submitted by 26 local publishing companies…
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?…
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…
A couple more things found on the web that don’t merit a full post, but deserve being noted. First, an excellent interview with Yi Mun-yol, possibly Korea’s greatest translated man of fiction (partly because he’s had a relatively large number of works translated, partly because he’s just that good^^). The interview is part of a…
The Korea Herald reported, a few days ago, that the Dalkey Archive Press and LTI Korea were about to finalize a list of 25 books to be translated from Korean and simultaneously published in English, beginning with a list of eight authors. A joint project with Korea Literature Translation Institute, the series will consist of…
FROM THE KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER IN NEW YORK Something to check out if you’ll be in New York at the end of the month. The Korean Literature Translation Institute (KLTI- director Joo Yeon Kim) will be hosting an upcoming KLTI US Forum on both October 25th and October 28th in Binghamton and New York City,…