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Han Kang's novel shortlisted for Man Booker Int'l Prize

South Korean novelist Han Kang, the 2016 winner of the Man Booker International Prize, has been shortlisted for the British literary award of world authority, the organizer said Thursday (British loc...

Apr 13, 2018
Books
A case against ‘creative’ translation of ‘The Vegetarian’

Literary translator and professor Kim Wook-dong asserted in his recently published article that the English version of the novel “The Vegetarian” has a significant number of mistranslations. In his ...

Apr 2, 2018
Books
Book details Joseon’s ‘warts and all’ approach to portraits

Lee Sung-nack, a board member at the Kansong Art and Culture Foundation, has released a new book that attempts to explain how portraits created in the Joseon era depicted their models in a realistic ...

Mar 20, 2018
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Professor BG Muhn’s publication sheds lights on North Korean art

‘When people ask whether I am liberal or conservative, I tell them that I am an artist,’ said Muhn Baum-gong, also known as BG Muhn, an artist and professor at Georgetown University, during a press c...

Mar 14, 2018
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Han Kang's latest novel nominated for Man Booker Int'l Prize

South Korean novelist Han Kang, who won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, has again been longlisted for the British literary award of world authority. Han's "The White Book" was among the ...

Mar 13, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Poet Choi Young-mi reaffirms sexual harassment allegations denied by Ko Un

Poet Choi Young-mi, who revealed her experience of being groped by an unnamed senior poet through her poem, on Monday reaffirmed sexual harassment allegations made against renowned poet Ko Un, who re...

Mar 5, 2018
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Professor advises on ways to become global-minded citizens

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...

Feb 1, 2018
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Borrowing Weberian perspective to dissect North Korea, knotty world

“North Korea is a monster beyond the concepts ‘Leviathan’ termed by English political scientist Thomas Hobbes, and ‘Maschine’ termed by Weber.”

Jan 11, 2018
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[Photo News] Poet Ko Un’s library reproduced, revealed to public

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 ...

Nov 21, 2017
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[Herald Interview] Peering into Korean society with sociological imagination

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.

Oct 26, 2017
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Congress of Korean-language writers kicks off in Gyeongju

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 Korea...

Sept 12, 2017
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Rushdie crafts masterpiece in ‘The Golden House’

“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 ful...

Sept 7, 2017
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Scholars: Refuse to bow down to China censorship pressure

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 ...

Aug 21, 2017
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Chae Man-shik, compromised conscience of occupied nation

Chae Man-shik was a prolific Korean novelist, playwright, literary critic, journalist and essayist who boldly confronted society’s pretensions and predicaments under the restrictions of Japan’s colon...

Jul 20, 2017
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Mistranslation of ‘The Vegetarian’?

A slew of controversies surrounding the English translation of Han Kang’s award-winning "The Vegetarian" have started numerous conversations about accuracy and readability. Even if there were some m...

Jul 3, 2017
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