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Korean Modern Literature: Bio of Kim Sagwa
In The Future of Silence (Great and reviewed at this link), Korean author Kim Sagwa is presented in English for the second time, the first time in an easily accessible format. I reached out to Bruce...
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KOREAN LITERATURE CHAPTER SIX: TRANSITION – ENLIGHTENMENT FICTION AND THE...
Cover of “Tears of Blood” Korean Fiction Chapters: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4/ 5 / In 1877 King Gojong and Queen Min sent a group of Koreans to Japan to examine its technological and social changes. What they found...
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Korea: A country of one’s own? Thoughts on Han Kang’s Booker victory.
Deborah Smith & Han Kang(Courtesy: Reuters) Last week in a “stop the presses” moment for Korean literature, Han Kang won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her harrowing and brilliant The...
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Translation Review: “Three Voices at Midnight” early Korean modern Fiction.
Super-Blurry-Cam! Three Voices at Midnight by Shing Sang-ung (Translated by Ahn Juhg-hyo) is an interesting amalgamation of internal stories. It is the story of a three-way love affair (not at all...
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Early Korean Modern Literature: Collected Short Stories from Korea
Oh my, … in my last review of Modern Short Stories From Korea the first book of translated Korean modern literature in English I noted that it was naturalistic, non-didactic, and even occasionally...
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Fixed the Book!
Not exactly earth-shaking. But when I ordered Modern Short Stories from Korea from “Pursuit of Happiness” Books in “Good” shape I did not expect a partially torn off cover and disconnected spine....
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City Literature: LARB Blog
It’s my bi-weekly piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog. This week the article is BRIGHT LIES, Big City, Big Angst! BIG CITY: KOREAN AUTHORS AND SEOUL. Below you will find additional...
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Korean Modern Literature Review: “Kwon Sun-chan and Nice People” by Lee Ki-ho
Kwon Sun-chan and Nice People is by Lee Ki-ho who has also had At Least We Can Apologize and So Far, and Yet So Near translated into English. It is a very short story of two men and a problem. The...
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Review of Cho Chongnae’s “The Human Jungle” in Seoul Magazine
For those of you who don’t know, most of my writing has migrated to the Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog and Seoul Magazine. Recently Seoul Magazine published my review of Cho Chongnae’s (Jo...
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Spokane Shadle Library Presentation on Korean Literature
Thanks to all who came out… The PPT describing the history of Korean literature is attached… YonseismallupateGood1
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