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Professor advises on ways to become global-minded citizens
Feb 1, 2018
Choi Jung-wha, a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, has released “Global Etiquette,” a book that offers suggestions on etiquette to observe in various circumstances. Through the book, Choi, the founder and president of the Corea Image Communications Institute, provides basic guidelines of proper etiquette while also offering English language expressions that readers can easily us...
Borrowing Weberian perspective to dissect North Korea, knotty world
Jan 11, 2018
“North Korea is a monster beyond the concepts ‘Leviathan’ termed by English political scientist Thomas Hobbes, and ‘Maschine’ termed by Weber.”
[Photo News] Poet Ko Un’s library reproduced, revealed to public
Nov 21, 2017
Korean poet Ko Un was contemplative at the launching ceremony of the Maninbo Library, Tuesday, where his old study was recreated and officially opened to the public. The Maninbo Library is situated at Seoul Archival Services, on the third floor of the Seoul Metropolitan Library. Maninbo, translating to “Ten Thousand Lives,” is the title of the series of poems by Ko Un remembering the lives of t...
[Herald Interview] Peering into Korean society with sociological imagination
Oct 26, 2017
Korea University Professor Andrew Eun-gi Kim illuminates nation-building in South Korea through the lens of “civil religion,” a term the academic has coined as a framework for analyzing national identity and its concomitant material progress.
Congress of Korean-language writers kicks off in Gyeongju
Sept 12, 2017
An event celebrating Korean-language literature by writers from around the world kicked off Tuesday in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province. The 3rd International Congress of Writers Writing in Korean will run until Friday at the city’s Hwabaek International Convention Center. Some 63 writers from 17 countries are participating in this year’s event organized under the theme, “Korean literature, ...
Rushdie crafts masterpiece in ‘The Golden House’
Sept 7, 2017
“The Golden House” by Salman Rushdie; Random House (400 pages, $29) If you read a lot of fiction, you know that every once in a while you stumble upon a book that transports you, telling a story full of wonder and leaving you marveling at how it ever came out of the author’s head. “The Golden House” is one of those books. The title refers to the lower Manhattan residence of the Golden family. ...
Scholars: Refuse to bow down to China censorship pressure
Aug 21, 2017
BEIJING - Scholars are petitioning Cambridge University Press to restore more than 300 politically sensitive articles removed from its website in China after a request from authorities, underscoring concerns about freedom of speech and the Chinese government‘s increasing leverage over academic organizations. Cambridge University Press said Friday that it had complied with a request to block cert...
Comprehensive textbook on Korean philosophy
Nov 26, 2015
“Korean Philosophy: Sources and Interpretations” Edited by Youn Sa-soon, translated by Sohn Yoo-taek (Korea University Press) “Korean Philosophy: Sources and Interpretations,” edited by professor Youn Sa-soon and translated into English by Sohn Yoo-taek, is a comprehensive, chronological outline of Korean traditional philosophy. Over 39 scholars of Korean and East Asian philosophy have partici...
[Herald Interview] Humor under gloom
Nov 10, 2015
Literary translator Sora Kim-Russell points to humor and complexity buried under ‘han’ in Korean literature
New bilingual book explains traditional Korean culture
Nov 5, 2015
“10 Selected Topics from Korean Traditional Culture: Stories, Images and Lyrics” By Kim Suk-hyon (KoreaStory) In “10 Selected Topics from Korean Traditional Culture: Stories, Images and Lyrics,” Kim Suk-hyon gives an overview of those things that have now become symbolic of Korea’s traditional culture -- the spicy fermented cabbage dish kimchi, the Korean alphabet Hangeul, the martial art tae...
European-language translations of Korean novels win big at awards
Nov 4, 2015
This year’s Korean Literature Translation Awards went to French, Spanish, Italian and Vietnamese translations of Korean novels, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea announced Wednesday. “This year, the European-language translations excelled in quality, were released through prominent local publishers, and received praise from the local media,” said poet and head of the awards panel Moo...
Mah, Hwang win Daesan literary awards
Nov 2, 2015
Poet Mah Chong-gi and novelist Hwang Jung-eun have been named this year’s awardees for the 23rd Daesan Literary Awards, Korea’s largest annual literary accolade. Mah’s collection of poems “42 Shades of Green,” which deals with different colors the speaker encounters during a train ride, and Hwang Jung-eun’s “Let Me Continue,” a story of persistence through life’s hardships for one’s loved ones, ...
[Herald Review] Novel follows gamer Kansas teen to Korea
Oct 29, 2015
Lawrence Tabak’s young adult novel “In Real Life” is coming-of-age story for digital age
Publisher halts sale of book by Nobel economics winner over mistranslations
Oct 27, 2015
Sales of the Korean-language edition of “The Great Escape,” written by Angus Deaton, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, have been halted due to “changes that are not approved by the author.” Princeton University Press, the book’s original publisher in the U.S., requested the Korean publisher Hankyung BP discontinue sales, citing “changes (in the Korean edition) that do not accur...
[Weekender] Up-and-coming writers test fiction’s boundaries
Oct 23, 2015
Since the early 2000s, South Korea welcomed a new group of writers who delved into their unique experiences as Korean millennials, as well as the horrors and joys of modern Korean life. Among them, one of the most prominent writers is Kim Ae-ran, who rose to instant literary stardom in 2003 when her short story, “No Knocking in this House,” won the Daesan Literary Award. In 2011, Jang Gang-myun...
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