2011 was an active year in Korean literature. • First, as the year began, Korea lost one of its great authors, and one well represented in translation, Park Wan-so. An international literary treasure as well a national one, Park’s literary career spanned thirty years, and she wrote more than 20 novels and 100 short stories,…
A little late night fix-up on Gong Ji-young on the Wikipedia. Given that the movie The Crucible (Titled Silenced in English) is about to come out in the States, I thought it was time to do a little cleanup on Gong Ji-young on the Wikipedia. So I added some info, cleaned up some errors, and…
Han Cinema releases the happy news that the movie Silenced, based on Gong Ji-young’s novel The Crucible, will be released in the US on November 4th. I’m assuming the name change is so that the movie will not be confused with Arthur Miller’s work which was previously named The Crucible? What is interesting to me,…
Now this is truly absurd …. Gong Ji-young published a novel called The Crucible that was then made into a movie of the same name. The novel and movie were based on a real-life horrific sex-scandal (details at the bottom of this post). Now, in reaction to this, the GNP is insanely attacking Gong and…
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,…