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Korean Literature in Translation – CHAPTER ONE: KOREA’S UNKNOWN LITERARY HISTORY

January 15, 2016, 9:10 pm

Chapters 1 / 2 / 3 / 4/ Almost every English language reader would immediately recognize the words “”Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.” as...

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Korean Literature in Translation – CHAPTER THREE: Korea’s Classical Oral Fiction

January 17, 2016, 7:14 pm

Chapters 1 / 2 / 3 / 4/ Korea’s literary preference has historically been towards poetry and song. In pre-print cultures this is common as the rhythm and rhyme of poetry make it easier to memorize....

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Korean Literature in Translation – CHAPTER FOUR: IT ALL CHANGES! THE CREATION...

January 18, 2016, 9:05 am

Chapters 1 / 2 / 3 / 4/ 5 / Perhaps the most important advancement for Korean literature in the Middle Ages was the development of a Korean alphabet, or Hangul (most often rendered as “Hangul” in...

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Noirish Korean Graphic Novel, “MOSS”, Comes to the HuffPost

January 22, 2016, 9:56 pm

Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton have been translating a graphic novel by Yoon Taeho called MOSS on the Huffington Post. As far as I can determine,this is the first Korean graphic novel to be published in...

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THAT Question: “What book should I read to begin Korean literature” (and how...

February 10, 2016, 7:34 pm

Because I write a website on Korean literature in translation (www.ktlit.com), people often email me with questions (often questions I am completely unqualified to answer!). But far and away the...

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Han Kang’s “Vegetarian” among books featured at Seattle Bookstore. Amazing!!!

March 5, 2016, 5:11 am

Amazingly happy news at a US bookstore! Meeting one of my ex-students from Dongguk University, and we chose to meet for coffee at a bookstore with a coffeeshop in the back. I walk into the front door...

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Over 30 copies of Han Kang’s “Vegetarian” in Powell’s Bookstore in Portland

March 7, 2016, 10:02 am

Following up on the last post, I took a quick look at Powell’s Bookstores in Portland. Sadly, I won’t have time to check them out, but the website reveals: Vegetarian in Portland That is actual copies...

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Recently on LTI Korea’s _list Magazine: Hwang Sok-yong and more

March 12, 2016, 11:07 am

Hwang Sok-yong A bit tardy on this perhaps, but the good folks at LTI Korea have published their March edition online and it is full of fun reading for fans of Korean, or any, literature. The Feature...

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