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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
Book Review
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
Book Review
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
Book Review
[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
Book Review
[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
Book Review
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
Book Review
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
Book Review
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
Book Review
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
Books
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
Books
Underdog status pays off for Korean novelist

A chronic inability to talk to attractive women can eventually reap rewards. That was the takeaway message from author Cheon Myeong-kwan as he addressed the Seoul Literary Society at the Swedish Amba...

Jun 23, 2017
Books
Korean authors to attend overseas literature events

Popular Korean authors will get to meet readers and translators in overseas literature events, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea said Tuesday. The photos provided by the Literature Trans...

May 16, 2017
Books
Amazon expands literary horizons, making big imprint in translation niche

SEATTLE - The literary translation community in the US has a tradition of being highbrow, a carefully tended yet narrow reflection of the stirrings of global culture beyond the Anglosphere. Then Ama...

Apr 20, 2017
Books
[Herald Interview] ‘Korean poems delight global sense and sensibility’

“Many Korean movies and novels display a strong sense of social critique, but Korea’s poems have traditionally been more lyrical than political in nature.”

Apr 6, 2017
Books
New books on Russian Revolution 100 years later

“Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890-1928” by S.A. Smith; Oxford University Press (455 pages, $34.95) “Lenin on the Train” by Catherine Merridale; Metropolitan Books (353 pages, $30) “C...

Apr 2, 2017
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