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Waxen Wings now available on Kindle! 25 Aug 2013 | 02:27 pm
The best collection of modern Korean fiction to date, Waxen Wings, is now available on Kindle. And for only $8.99. The book itself is beyond awesome (I include my previous review below) and Kindle me...
OK, Now Amazon’s just having a laugh: Kim Young-ha for $1,174.23 31 Jul 2013 | 05:02 am
And I GAVE a copy to Chocoballnoona! Here it is.. and it made me wonder about some of the other LTI Korea/JImoondang books, so I did a bit of research below. Kim is the most highly-priced autho...
Found on the Web #31: Krys Lee Story, Literature Database, Nigerian Exchanges 30 Jul 2013 | 09:26 am
Found on the web As usual, three things culled from the web in a series of short hops, skips, and jumps. • An excellent short story in Guernica, by KTLIT favorite Krys Lee. As usual, it’s a bit dark...
Buzz building on Hwang Sun-Mi’s “The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly” 29 Jul 2013 | 04:22 am
KTLIT has been in contact with Oh Jeeyon, from Penguin Books, about Hwang Sun-mi’s upcoming publication of The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly which is scheduled to be released (available on Amazon) on ...
Korean Literature and Universality: An Unusual Suspect Lines Up 28 Jul 2013 | 08:35 am
It’s always reassuring to me when Korean scholars seem to agree with me^^, and then it brings out the contrarian in me. Thus it is with this article in the Korea Times, ‘Universality’ holds key to de...
Kim Young-ha’s A Murderer’s Way To Memorize 25 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
Kim Young-ha, a friend of this site, has released a new novel A Murderer’s Way To Memorize (in Korean). Aligned with that release is an animation.. Here is the animation (and below it is a quick tran...
300 Second Sunday… Yi Mun-yol 22 Jul 2013 | 07:38 am
Yi Mun-yol was born in Cheongun-dong in Seoul and attended prestigious Seoul National University, studying Korean Literature. He dropped out in 1970. From 1994 to 1997, he taught Korean language and ...
KTLIT gets a little coverage in LA (KoreAm Magazine) 19 Jul 2013 | 10:38 am
A good article (LOL, not just because it quotes me) over at KoreAm Magazine, discussing the (so far) failure of Korean literature to take off in the same way that some other Korean cultural representa...
Kim Young-Ha in the Marketplace – MILLIONAIRE??^^ 14 Jul 2013 | 04:49 pm
I was hanging about in some of the tawdry local bookshops I do… and I saw two new (used) books that had been sold by some woman named Catherine Peck (obnoxiously, she wrote her name into the inner cov...
LTI Korea and KTLIT begin “Wikipedia Project” collaboration 14 Jul 2013 | 08:33 am
It’s been a little slow around here, but here’s why: LTI Korea and KTLIT begin “Wikipedia Project” collaboration. After a meeting last week at the office of the Language Translation Institute of Kor...
