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'Panmunjom and DMZ’ highlights history of divided peninsula

Jul 26, 2018

Veteran photojournalist offers readers rare look into restricted areas along the border
Christian couple’s yearlong honeymoon is investment for future

Jul 24, 2018

“About Marriage: the 357-day honeymoon” is a collection of writings by a Christian couple who went on a 357-day-long honeymoon to places like Yanbian, Cambodia and India. Like Japanese female writer...
‘In Praise of Death’ won’t come to life for modern readers

Jul 19, 2018

Han So-jin’s “In Praise of Death” seems equipped with the enticing elements of a best-seller: a femme-fatale artist misunderstood by her generation and a tragic affair with a married man. Unfortunate...
In Sweden, compassion still trumps bigotry

Jul 4, 2018

“Instead of imitating another nation, the Swedes made an unrivaled achievement of their own -- creating a strong society for the people.”
[Herald Interview] Now is time to talk about Korean literature

Jun 21, 2018

Publishers choose the books to put out on bookstore shelves, hoping that some will buy and perhaps read them. Yet, many of them go unnoticed among the countless books that are released every day. Th...
Poetry of Kim Jong-gil’s Life, ‘A Black Kite’

Jun 21, 2018

Kim Jong-gil passed away in 2017 at the age of 92. He was professor emeritus at the Korea University English literature department, and in the 1990s we met and discussed translation of poetry from Ko...
Forgetting is bliss, but not always

Apr 25, 2018

Author of ‘White Chrysanthemum’ talks about debut novel on victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery
Han Kang's novel shortlisted for Man Booker Int'l Prize

Apr 13, 2018

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...
A case against ‘creative’ translation of ‘The Vegetarian’

Apr 2, 2018

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 ...
Book details Joseon’s ‘warts and all’ approach to portraits

Mar 20, 2018

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 ...
Professor BG Muhn’s publication sheds lights on North Korean art

Mar 14, 2018

‘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...
Han Kang's latest novel nominated for Man Booker Int'l Prize

Mar 13, 2018

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 ...
[Newsmaker] Poet Choi Young-mi reaffirms sexual harassment allegations denied by Ko Un

Mar 5, 2018

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...
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...
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.”