For those of you who don’t know, most of my writing has migrated to the Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog and Seoul Magazine. Recently Seoul Magazine published my review of Cho Chongnae’s (Jo Jung-rae) “The Human Jungle” in the mighty Seoul Magazine: For some reason they chose to use a graphic of the…
Jo Jung-Rae‘s (the name is different on the book, Cho Chongnae, however KTLIT uses the authors preferred Romanization as determined by the authoritative page at LTI Korea) How in Heaven’s Name: A Novel of World War Two, is available now. Unusually, it is a novel of World War II, an era that is not that…
Coming into the New Year World Literature Today has posted its list of 75 Notable Translations 2012. What seems most notable to me, is its complete exclusion of the Korean literature translated this year. Really? The year after Please Look After Mom blew Korean literature onto the international scene and no mention of Korean fiction;…
The Korea Herald notes that Asia Publishers has just put out a 15-volume bilingual Korean literature series, titled Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature. But it seems to feature all the usual suspects and previously translated works. Really? This is getting past ridiculous. I suppose the defense will be that this volume is for “Korean Studies” courses,…