Novelist Yun Ko-eun become the first Asian to win a prestigious CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger on Thursday. The Dagger awards, conferred by the Crime Writers’ Association in the United Kingdom, recognize excellence in the art of crime writing. This year’s winners were announced during an online event hosted by the winners from last year. Yun was the first Asian winner since the associa...

“It was after reading a story about four people who have leprosy in the Bible,” he said. “I found myself through this story.” The Bible’s Book of Kings tells the story of four lepers who are starving outside the city gates during a famine. Desperately searching for anything to eat, they come upon empty tents left behind by an enemy army, full of food and wealth. After enjoying some food in one o...

Exhibition of photos, poems written from conflict regions show writer Park No-hae’s love for humanity

Creators of ‘Batman: Moonin’ talk about their work process, introducing Korean elements that people around the world can relate to, including Korean readers

The National Library of Korea received more than 1,000 books on Tuesday and will send them to major libraries around the world through its International Materials Exchange Program. The library signed an agreement in 2016 with the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, the publisher of the books, to carry out and expand overseas research on Korea while promoting Korean cultural assets over...

“Iparapa Yamooyamoo” is a children’s book, but Lee has a different view. “Even though the book is made for children, anyone can easily approach my book, such as the reader’s parents. I wish the parents to feel unlimited happiness when they see their children’s smile while opening my book,” Lee told The Korea Herald. The world‘s leading event for children’s books, Bologna Children‘s Book Fair wi...

DC comics’ global collaboration series “Batman: The World” has Seoul as main stage

The Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) is calling for submissions for this year’s Korean Diaspora Literature Essay Contest to expand the base of literary exchange through discovering and supporting writers of Korean diaspora literature. The writing contest will be based on 25 essays, novels, and poems written by people of Korean ancestry living in Central Asia, Europe, Japan, ...

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Friday appointed poet Kwak Hyo-hwan as the new president of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. His term will run through May 13, 2024. “With new president Kwak Hyo-hwan, we hope that LTI Korea expands its role as the key player in exporting Korean literature overseas,” a Culture Ministry official said. “The Ministry of Culture, Sports and ...

Lindsey Miller recounts the stress of constant questioning, her decision to believe in authenticity of relationships during her two years in Pyongyang

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the World Intellectual Property Organization on Monday announced the joint publication of webtoon “Let’s draw a dream” about the importance of copyrights, created by Korean lawyer Lee Young-wook. “We are glad that we could work with a professional from our country to create a webtoon that can increase the understanding of the importance of copyrigh...

The main theme repeated throughout the book is that the South Korea-US alliance should be a means to seek the national interest. In other words, the national interest needs to come first, before the South Korea-US alliance. He says South Koreans need to overcome their “addiction” to the alliance and need to focus on mutual interests for a healthier alliance. Accordingly, he writes, South Korea ne...

With Korea now better known around the world, there is less demand for introductory books on Korea and a higher interest for fictions by notable authors like Han Kang in English, compilations of Korean traditional stories and books about K-pop, among others. For those interested in finding and reading Korean literature in English, the best odds of finding them lies here. By Lim Jang-won ( ljw@...

Social media can be used to keep production costs manageable as well. The editors of the Seoul Review of Books, vegan magazine Moolgyul, feminist magazine RADish, independent magazine Quarterly Alone and film magazine FILO used Tumblebug to carry out crowdfunding campaigns. Smaller magazines can also opt to publish on an irregular basis and use social media to alert loyal readers to an upcoming ...

Jungwook Hong, a former National Assembly representative and former chairman of Herald Corp., has released a book of 50 essays about his journey to find his life’s purpose. Hong is a bestselling author whose 1993 autobiography, “Seven Acts, Seven Scenes,” sold over 1 million copies. That first book, which centered on his personal experience of studying in the US at Choate Rosemary Hall and Harva...