The Korea Herald

[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 Korea...
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 ful...
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 ...
Chae Man-shik, compromised conscience of occupied nation

Jul 20, 2017

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...
Mistranslation of ‘The Vegetarian’?

Jul 3, 2017

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...
Underdog status pays off for Korean novelist

Jun 23, 2017

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...
Korean authors to attend overseas literature events

May 16, 2017

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...
Amazon expands literary horizons, making big imprint in translation niche

Apr 20, 2017

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...
[Herald Interview] ‘Korean poems delight global sense and sensibility’

Apr 6, 2017

“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.”
New books on Russian Revolution 100 years later

Apr 2, 2017

“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...
[Eye Interview] Korea through eyes of an outsider

Mar 31, 2017

Longtime resident Michael Breen looks at how the country’s citizens have changed over the decades in ‘The New Koreans’
Dylan to meet Nobel academy to receive literature diploma

Mar 30, 2017

Nobel literature prize laureate Bob Dylan will meet with members of the Swedish Academy during a weekend visit to Stockholm and they will hand over his Nobel diploma and medal, the academy said Wedne...
LTI Korea digitalizes classical, contemporary Korean literature

Mar 13, 2017

Classical and contemporary Korean literature will be available electronically through the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, which has digitalized 33 masterpieces. The project involved digit...
Barack, Michelle Obama sign bumper book deal

Mar 1, 2017

Barack and Michelle Obama have signed a deal to publish their memoirs with New York-based Penguin Random House, in a coveted contract reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars. America‘s first Af...