Soil Yi Kwang-su is, as far as I can tell, the spiritual godfather of the modern Korean drama. Better known as the father of Korean modern literature (for his work, Heartless), his stories are laced with love triangles, betrayals, defeats, revenges, and in the case of The Soil (흙) a spectacularly failed suicide attempt. Doomed…
Quick, where can you get info @ the Seoul International Book Fair? Yep! At www.KTLit.com. Today it’s the authors.
The Language Translation Institute of Korea and The British Council in Seoul did a brilliant job of selecting authors for the 2014 London Book Fair (at which Korea was the market focus). The British Council used this opportunity to interview all of the authors, and while these interviews may be found individually through their “news”…
Or perhaps Changbi does not care about English language browsers? My ever vigilant broken-link plugin on WordPress today suddenly spit out a long list of broken links, as you can see a fraction of here: None of the links I checked were re-directed, rather they were simply changed or eliminated. Then, going to one…
LTI Korea, fresh off successes with its Dalkey Publications Books and the the conclusion of the first stage of its Wikipedia Project, is now pushing Korean translated literature into the e-sphere. Yesterday twenty stories from Korea’s early modern period became available for free as PDFs. And… oh, yeah.. there’s an app if you want to…
Another excellent article from SinoNK (tip of the hat to reader Charles!) on some aspects in North Korean literature that probably won’t come as much of a surprise. The article is titled Sino-NK 2013 Rewind: North Korean Literature at Masik Speed by Benoit Berthelier. It begins with something regular watchers of NK would expect: Both Kim Il-sung…
Below is the press release LTI Korea and KTLIT are sending out to celebrate the building of 350 Wikipedia Pages related to Korean authors and literature. The first coverage of it is in the Korea Times today. (Seoul, Korea) – On Tuesday, December 17, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea), in partnership with…
Recently, I was interviewed by Arirang TV’s INNERview, and that show has now aired. However, it is also available on YouTube (in segments), or as a complete Video On Demand on the Arirang site. If you would like a taste of what I look (ugh!) and sound like, here is a short clip about my…
Well.. this is rather horrible. The phrase “Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature” is rendered as: At least they got the first collection right:
It’s been a little slow around here, but here’s why: LTI Korea and KTLIT begin “Wikipedia Project” collaboration. After a meeting last week at the office of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) in Samseong-dong, LTI Korea and the Korean Translated Literature website (KTLIT) have agreed to a six-month project, the “Korean Literature…