This is kind of sad… shopping at What the Book (the most well-known new and used English bookstore in Korea) with my friend from the 10 Magazine book club an he notes that the number of NEW Korean titles (fiction that is) has shrunk dramatically. I go over to the used section and the same…
Looking out at various things in the Korean translatosphere, it seems that good-hearted efforts are being undermined by poor planning, and the latest example of this can be found in the 15 volume collection of novellas just published by Asia Publishers. It sounds like a good project when you read the explanation: Asia Publishers present…
I’m really not quite sure what to say about this video, except that it is in line with Korea’s general desire to win a Nobel Prize for literature and that this guy obviously doesn’t understand; a) translation b) that cultural roots underlay ALL languages, and c) his head from a hole in the ground.^^ Really,…