Happy New Year to Everyone – To Raymond Carver, by Kim Yeon-su (Translated by Maya West), is a male version of a very Korean modern fiction approach – a woman’s life (in this case the wife of the narrator) is examined through the conceptions and misconceptions of a husband, and in this examination the state…
Kim Yeon-su has now gone up on the Wiki, here.. but to save you the trouble^^ it looks a little like this (and note that I wasted a lot of time coming up with a new graphic for the Wikipedia Project!): Kim Yeon-su From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This is a…
In advance of a meeting with authors Kim Yeon-su, Kim In-sook and Pyun Hye-young, I’ve put up the Wikipedia Page for Pyun Hye-Young (Kim In-sook is already done), with Kim Yeon-su to go. Pyun Hye-Young’s page is here, and looks like this (picture will be inserted after the meeting): Pyun Hye-Young From Wikipedia, the…
First, an article from the always interesting (and sometimes provocative) Brother Anthony (Son-jae). Called Culture in Translation it is a semi-interview which begins with a brief interlude about tea, but quickly moves to literature. About translation in general, Brother Anthony makes three points, the second one I hadn’t fully considered. First he notes that Korean…
The day two event I chose to attend was Globalizing World and the Human Community. The first speaker was Bok Geo-il, who spoke on Language and Writing in the Age of Globalization (this was one of the papers at this conference I edited). Bok is a novelist, critic, and representative of the Future Culture Forum.…