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Fri, February 26, 2021 | 14:04
Comics artists hold online exhibition to show solidarity with HK protesters
Comics artists hold online exhibition to show solidarity with HK protesters
A group of comics artists and illustrators gathered to show solidarity with pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, holding an online exhibition through June 25.
2020-04-12 15:49
'King Maker,' liberal commentator turn back on their allies
'King Maker,' liberal commentator turn back on their allies
Kim Chong-in, a chief campaigner of the main opposition United Future Party, and liberal political commentator Kang Jun-man seem to have nothing in common in their personal, educational or professional backgrounds.
2020-04-10 15:35
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Award-winning author at odds with publisher over copyright
Award-winning author at odds with publisher over copyright
The legal battle between award-winning author Baek Hee-na and publishing house Hansolsoobook has regained attention after Baek won the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in Sweden for her debut book “Cloud Bread.” The two sides clashed over the copyright of the 2004 book, leading them to confront each other in court. Recently the upper court upheld the lower court's ruling w...
2020-04-10 14:58
Korean coming-of-age novel wins Japanese literary award
Korean coming-of-age novel wins Japanese literary award
Novelist Sohn Won-pyung won the 2020 Japanese Booksellers' Awards in the category of translated fiction novel for her coming-of-age story “Almond,” becoming the first non-Japanese Asian writer to win the award.
2020-04-08 13:36
Smartphones make you sick, stupid
Smartphones make you sick, stupid
In his new book “No-Mobile Phone Phobia” written in German and translated into Korean, psychiatrist, psychologist and neuroscientist Manfred Spitzer identifies the smartphone, along with other digital devices, as the source of multiple, chronic problems that modern society is grappling with.
2020-04-05 09:19
Acclaimed novelist bringing Korean sci-fi literature to the West
Acclaimed novelist bringing Korean sci-fi literature to the West
In recent years, science fiction has become a popular genre in Korea, with a surge in the number of sci-fi titles in bookstores. In the past decade or so young, talented writers have lifted the once unpopular literary genre and brought it to the mainstream.
2020-04-02 16:58
Science fiction's golden age in Korea?
Science fiction's golden age in Korea?
Unlike Western countries, Korea does not have a long tradition of discourse on science fiction literature. It was not until the 2000s when the Korean literary scene began to actively explore fantasy worlds and the future. A new generation of writers started traversing the line between realism and fantasy.
2020-04-02 16:56
Baek Hee-na wins international children's book award
Baek Hee-na wins international children's book award
Baek Hee-na, author and renowned picture book artist, has been named the winner of the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest children's literature prize. She is the first Korean to win the prestigious award.
2020-04-01 16:13
13 days of fears in Korea's deep south
13 days of fears in Korea's deep south
Paul Courtright's “Witnessing Gwangju” is an American's account of the tragic May 18 Gwangju Uprising that took place four decades ago. His memoir revisits the 13 days of fears and gunfire during the student-led pro-democracy uprising in the southwestern city in 1980 when the author was working with a leprosy resettlement center named Hohyewon in South Jeolla Province as a Pe...
2020-03-27 12:48
Children's book writer Shin Ji-sik dies at 90
Children's book writer Shin Ji-sik dies at 90
Shin Ji-sik, a children's book writer and the first translator here of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel “Anne of Green Gables,” died of a chronic disease March. 12. She was 90.
2020-03-18 15:45
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