A new project. To find all the places online where you can read translated Korean Modern Literature, free ( Here are the works so far (I still have to get all the Korea Journal articles before 1989 and many of the works translated by Brother Anthony). If you know of a work that is NOT…
An interesting article from Han Cinema The Korean author whose works were introduced overseas the most is poet Go Eun. ….. 51 books by Go have been published or are scheduled to come out abroad. His poem collections such as “Maninbo”, “Momentary Flower”, “Hwaeomgyeong”, “South and North Korea”, and others have been introduced to foreign readers…
Two bits of good news about modern authors and one bit of good (with a strong side order of ludicrous) news about and older one. First, the a very short article, nearly a press-release, announcing that Author Kong Ji-young, 48, will donate the entire royalty from her four novels released in Japan to victims of…
There is no better time than now to begin to read modern Korean literature. It’s many talented authors write in myriad genres and in the past 25 years have begun to skillfully meld innately Korean history and culture to stories with international appeal.
Yi Mun-yol is the most internationally translated Korean author, and it’s a good thing. ^^
A Korea Times article about Park Wan-seo on the 40th anniversary of her debut as an author and the publication of a book of essays she has writen over the last 4 years.
So, on Thursday night I had to duck out of a soju-drenched Division meeting to head over the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. HUFS had heard, somewhere, about a foreigner who was interested in Korean literature, and graciously invited me to a talk that Yi was to give. I would, of course, also double the…
There is a lecture/Q&A at HUFS this Thursday and I’ve been invited. Yi is one of my favorite three Korean authors, with tremendous range in his writing: An Appointment With My Brother Our Twisted Hero The Poet Twofold Song More about Yi here at the irreplaceable KTLIT^^ Now all I need is someone who speaks…
As a result of noting that there really isn’t much info on the web about Korean authors, we’re trying to put some information up right over here. So far we have: Cho Se-hui Ch’oe Yun Kim Yong-ik Yi Mun-yol But as this all goes up, it is also being ported to the Wikipedia, with the…
Chi-Young Kim, Kim Young-ha, Lee Dong-Ha, North Korea, Yi Mun-yol, Kyung-ran Jo,I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Tongue, Toy City. All in one splendid mess!