An Interview with translator Chi-Young Kim (Shin Kyung-sook’s “Please Look After Mom” among others)

NOTE: This is an update of a previous post from last year it is interesting to note that elsewhere in this interview she expressed relative certainty about the eventual success of Please Take Care of Mother. Last September I was lucky enough to catch up with Chi-Young Kim at the 4th International Translators’ Conference at…

Review: The Complete “Toy City” by Lee Dong-ha

NOTE: A shorter, Jimoondang, version of this book has been previously reviewed here. Toy City is based on Lee Dong-Ha’s own childhood experiences in a refugee camp in Daegu, although Yun, the main character in the book, is transplanted from the countryside to a refuge camp on a hillside near Seoul. Lee was born in…

Found on the Web #4

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!