영어 및 한국어! (or just English, if you prefer). For updates, you can find me on twitter. On May 24th, Korean-American author Chang-rae Lee (A Gesture Life, Aloft, The Surrendered, Native Speaker, On Such a Full Sea) stopped by Haechi Hall for the 10 Magazine / Seoul ABC Book Club interview. Lee talked about why he…
Really needs no commentary. Check out the video here… For a longer interview (with substantially lower production values^^) See this one:
They said Korean literature could not be reduced to 60 minutes (particularly with my suspect history and cultural analysis included). And they were likely correct.^^ A presentation likely full of hideous errors, monstrous miscalculations, and bad analysis (that’s what my comments section is for). But a brief presentation I gave at Yonsei last week. Eventually, I’ll…
(NOTE: You can also follow KTLIT on Twitter @ktlit) Kyung-sook Shin spoke to a full house for over an hour on Saturday at Haechi Hall in Myeongdong (a Q&A) session followed, which should go up tomorrow) as part of the 10 Magazine Book Club Lecture Series. Shin talked about her previous works, particularly Please Look After…
If, yesterday, you weren’t at Haechi Hall watching Kyung-Sook Shin get interviewed you need to take a long hungover look at yourself in the mirror today and ask if you made the right decision. Because this might have missed the best 10 Magazine/Seoul ABC book club yet. Shin talked about her previous works, particularly Please Look…
Devine, Maija Rhee, friend of this podcast and author of The Voices of Heaven, which Amazon describes as, a rare gem in English-language literature about Korea, a story that takes us deep into the devotion and secrets of a family living in Seoul at the cusp of the Korean War. A tale that spans decades,…
Ch’oe In-ho, who died last year was known as a prodigious drinker (“guzzler”) and in 2014 his hand-prints were memorialized on the sidewalk of Yonsei-ro, where he frequently drank. He also wrote a bit about drinking, one work of which was “Boozer” in which Ch’oe’s narrator is a young boy in “search of this father”…
Just a reminder the KTLit has moved part of its focus on Korean literature and Korean authors into the video realm and has begun (with the aid of the 10 Magazine Book club and SeoulABC) to video interviews with Korean authors. Since these are in English and Korean, anyone can listen! Author Kim Young-ha…
On April 3rd the SLS (hosted by the awesome Swedish Embassy) hosted a talk by noted Korean author Lee Ki-ho (At Least We Can Apologize, and So Far, and Yet So Near are his works currently translated into English). And it just so happened that KTLIT was there. Lee noted that he had been traveling all over…
On March 24th, Korean author Hwang Sun-mi came to the 10 Magazine Book Club (which, if you don’t follow on Facebook, you should) and was interviewed bilingually (well, that means there was an interpreter). The conversation was wide-ranging and frank as Hwang talked a little about the origin of her work The Hen Who Dreamed…