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Thu, February 9, 2023 | 11:46

Poetic entanglement of love and alienation

Poetic entanglement of love and alienation

In a fable written by Jeong Ho-seung, a mother bird tells her son, who was born with only one wing, “If we do not love sincerely, we can never fly. Loving is gaining the other wing. So son, be sure not to lose love.”

Park Han-sol | 2020-11-11 15:00

More good news for Korean literature

More good news for Korean literature

More good news for Korean literature arrived this week amid a festive mood in the nation's literary circles following the overseas success of several Korean novels and works of poetry.

Park Ji-won | 2020-11-10 17:37

Daesan Literary Awards announces four winners this year

Daesan Literary Awards announces four winners this year

The Daesan Foundation announced the winners of the 28th Daesan Literary Awards Tuesday, which gives awards in the categories of poetry, novel, critical literary work and translation.

Park Ji-won | 2020-11-03 16:23

Korea's disappearing culture captured in photography

Korea's disappearing culture captured in photography

Han Jeong-sik's “The Highway Beside the Stable” is a collection of photo essays showing Korea in the incipient stages of urbanization and in transition between the pre-modern and modern eras. The black-and-white photography is the author's personal account of extinct or disappearing elements of culture and his memories entangled with them. With his camera in hand, the retired...

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2020-10-26 14:09

[ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL] Korea Times is part of my life, says avid reader

ANNIVERSARY SPECIALKorea Times is part of my life, says avid reader

Lee Bock-hee has played a role as an honorary goodwill ambassador of The Korea Times unwittingly for the past decade. Lee, vice president of the non-profit group Seoul International Women's Association (SIWA), was once a “need-driven” reader of the newspaper in 1982 when she entered college. Like other college students of her time, she read it to improve her English.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2020-10-26 07:57

ANNIVERSARY SPECIALThe Korea Times offers global perspectives for Navy officer

Kevin O'Rourke, priest who won first Ph.D in Korean literature, dies

Kevin O'Rourke, priest who won first Ph.D in Korean literature, dies

Kevin Laurence O'Rourke, an Irish Catholic priest and scholar who has translated more than 2,000 Korean literary works into English, died on Friday. He was 81.

Park Ji-won | 2020-10-25 15:35

Odd one out in literary circle

Odd one out in literary circle

Kim Yi-deum, whose translated poetry won the 2020 National Translation Award (NTA) of the American Literary Translators' Association (ALTA), considers herself the odd one out in Korean literary circles. Unlike other Korean poets, she said her poetic style is free, crude and decadent.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2020-10-20 15:44

Sociologist rus bookstore in memory of late parents

Sociologist rus bookstore in memory of late parents

It was just fanciful thinking years ago when Nho Myung-woo, a sociology professor at Ajou University, first considered opening a bookstore. In the digital era, bookstores are a waning business and Nho already had a full-time job. Preparing lectures and teaching students required him to invest a lot of time and energy, and finding the time to devote to an unprofitable business...

Park Ji-won | 2020-10-18 14:26

South Korean poetry 'Hysteria' wins US translation award

South Korean poetry 'Hysteria' wins US translation award

The South Korean poetry work “Hysteria” has won the 2020 National Translation Award (NTA) presented by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). Written by poet Kim Yi-deum, the volume was translated by Jake Levine, Seo So-eun and Choi Hedgie.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2020-10-16 16:04

Bad blood brewing: Two authors at odds over Korea's colonial past

Bad blood brewing: Two authors at odds over Korea's colonial past

Jo Jung-rae, author of million-seller “Arirang” (1994), had caused the public to raise their eyebrows earlier this week for his sweeping hostile description of Koreans who had lived in Japan as overseas students.The award-winning novelist called all of them “Japan sympathizers.”

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2020-10-14 14:51

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