Ha Seong-nan’s collection of five short stories translated into English, “Bluebeard’s First Wife,” was selected as one of the Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2020. This is the second time that a South Korean literary work has made the list. The first was in 2016, when Publishers Weekly recognized the English translation of “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang. “Ha’s nitro-fueled collection captures ...

Although Menosky originally wrote the story as a “four-hour teleplay -- intended as a miniseries for television, for a non-Korean audience,” his Korean management company, Saram Entertainment, introduced him to Fitbook, which asked him to turn the script into a novel. “I’d never written a novel before, and I first thought it would just be a matter of reformatting from screenplay style and maybe ...

Samsung Human Resource Development Institute’s former Chief Learning Officer Shin Tae-gyun sheds light on the qualities that companies should keep an eye out for heading into the “fourth industrial revolution” when artificial intelligence replaces many jobs in his book “Talent’s Counterattack.” After joining Samsung in 1983, Shin worked his way up as a human resources education expert, deliverin...

“When I read ‘Logic for an Era of Transition Era’ published in 1974, it felt like an earthquake had erupted inside my head,” said Kwon on Tuesday. “This critical biography began by searching for where the courage to speak the truth during the Cold War and authoritarian era came from.” Choi thought reminding Rhee’s contemporaries of Rhee could lead them to harness new values for the present day. ...

Yun Yuh-soon shares her experience as LG Group’s first female executive in her book ‘Winning Gracefully”

The 2020 Seoul International Writers’ Festival, the largest international literary festival in South Korea, will take place online Nov. 2-8, with the aim of expanding opportunities to enjoy literature while providing a platform for literary exchange. Eleven writers from 11 foreign countries and 14 Korean writers are taking part in this year’s festival, themed “Writing Tomorrow.” Participating wr...

An English translation of Kim Yi-deum’s book of poetry “Hysteria” (Action Books) became the first-ever book to win both the National Translation Award and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize given by the American Literary Translators Association on Friday (local time). “Hysteria” is Kim’s third book of poems to be translated into English with the support of the Literature Translation Instit...

The graphic novel “Grass” by Keum Suk Gendry Kim was awarded “Best International Book” at the Harvey Awards, while the German translation of “Memoir of a Murderer” by Kim Young-ha was selected by Germany‘s Hotlist this month. “Memoir of a Murderer” by best-selling author Kim Young-ha, which was selected for this month‘s Hotlist, was translated into German with the support of LTI Korea. The book...

Lee finally decided the work was done last year and “I am the Master of My Fate and Captain of My Soul,” a collection of his father’s articles and their translations, was released in June. The English title comes from the last line of Lee Hi-chang’s favorite poem by William Ernest Henley. The translations were done by Lee Hi-chang‘s children, making the book more memorable for the Lee family. “T...

The prolonged battle against the COVID-19 outbreak is changing life patterns, including how we read and digest books. Public libraries have shut down with some offering delivery-only services, or activating “e-bookshelf” sections online as an alternative way out during and after the crisis. Efforts for new reading experiences seem to have gained overall success so far. According to the Ministry ...

“Literature does a good job of adding emotional information to foster empathy, giving you portals to connect other narratives with yours,” said Yoon. “The ultimate goal of this book for people unfamiliar with the history is to foster empathy. We are all living the same history in the end. Nothing is ever irrelevant.” Among the myriad of violence, Yoon tries to show that an underlying encompassin...

Columnist for The Korea Herald and the Elders Press of Korea, Kim Myong-sik has released “All in the Same Boat,” a compilation of 140 columns that he wrote for the Elders Press of Korea from March 2017 to July 2020. This is a second compilation of his columns. “Jongno Square,” containing three year‘s worth of columns, was published in 2013. In journalism for more than 40 years, Kim has served a...

In 2019, Lee won the Positive Organization Intervention Challenge Finalist Award from the International Positive Psychology Association, a global professional organization for thousands of psychological experts from 70 countries. She is now co-chair of the American Psychological Association‘s international section of Division 17. The author stresses that one can find their signature within thems...

The book, written in collaboration with the late Edward W. Wagner (1924-2001), a professor and founder of the Korean studies program at Harvard University, provides significant information about chaekgeori based on an examination of more than 150 images from numerous collections both in Korea and abroad. The book is the result of more than 30 years of devotion to the genre on the author’s part. ...

Author Kim Bong-gon tweeted on Tuesday that he would return publisher Munhak Dongne’s Young Writer Award and apologized for the trouble he has caused. Kim, who gained popularity for his autofiction -- or fictionalized autobiography -- regarding LGBTQ culture faced criticism when one person, “disexual,” tweeted how her private messages with Kim had been used verbatim in his award-winning short st...