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Fri, February 26, 2021 | 14:03
Book answers it all, from K-drama cliches to meaning of 'Gangnam style'
Book answers it all, from K-drama cliches to meaning of 'Gangnam style'
“Why is there a Pepsi logo on the South Korean flag?” “Why do all Korean names have three syllables?” “Why do I get a year, or even two years, older when I land on Korean soil?”
2020-11-27 15:00
'Don't be scared. You're not alone'
'Don't be scared. You're not alone'
“Why me?” Like many other cancer patients, Han Yu-kyung, author of “The Cancer Center Graduate” published by Chamomile Press, kept asking this question after she was diagnosed with cancer last year at a university hospital in Seoul.
2020-11-18 12:33
Poet shares thought-provoking backstory
Poet shares thought-provoking backstory
The atmosphere of the 51st Korea Times Modern Korean Literary Translation Awards held on Thursday was very different from that of previous events. It was entertaining and, at the same time, thought-provoking, mainly because of the special guest - the award-winning poet Kim Yi-deum.
2020-11-13 15:46
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.”
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.
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.
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...
2020-10-26 14:09
[ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL] Korea Times is part of my life, says avid reader
[ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL] Korea 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.
2020-10-26 07:57
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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.
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.
2020-10-20 15:44
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