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What Comes After Today’s Korean-Style Healing Novels?

Topic   What Comes After Today’s Korean-Style Healing Novels?   2024.10.07   “While the so-called ‘Korean style healing novels’ are selling well these days, trends always change. This craze will be replaced with a new trend sooner or later.” Barbara J. Zitwer, a literary agent working across English-speaking countries, said so in a recent interview. Zitwer is an American who has been exporting Korean literature overseas for about 20 years and is often referred to as a “Korean literature ambassador.” She explains that the phenomenon of Korean-style healing novels being so popular not only in Korea, but also abroad, is something that may change at any time soon. “At first, everyone read pure literature,” she said, “and then the trend shifted to healing novels.” While it may seem that the popularity of Korean literature across all genres has grown on the surface, Zitwer says that international readers switched genres when they got tired of...
  • VOL.75 / 2024.10
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Slin Jung

Korean Translator   Slin Jung   2023.08.07   PROFILE   Slin Jung is a freelance translator and interpreter based in Toronto, Canada. She received an MA in conference interpretation at the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation (GSIT) at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. • Email: slin.jung13870@gmail.com   Published Translations   • Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong, Lee Jae-Eui, and Jeon Yong-Ho (Verso, 2022) • Black is Black, White is White from The Age of Doubt by Park Kyongni (Honford Star, 2022) • Co-translation of Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by Kang Myeongseok (Flatiron Books, 2023)   ...
  • VOL.61 / 2023.08
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Successful Import Case of Korean Literature in the U.K.

Export Case   Successful Import Case of Korean Literature in the U.K. Publishing the best literature from East Asia, be it classic or contemporary   2022.09.05   When we started Honford Star, our original plan was to publish the short stories of Yi Sang, the tragic poet of early modern Korean literature. His bizarre imagery and youthful exuberance attracted us, even though the difference in language and decades between him and us. Unfortunately, we were never able to publish Yi, but our love of offbeat Korean literature continued.At Honford Star, we aim to translate books right at the edge between genre fiction and literary fiction. So when Anton Hur sent us the first two stories in the Cursed Bunny (Arzak) short story collection, we bought the rights as fast as we could. The stories were absurdist masterpieces that showcased author Bora Chung’s ability to mix the fantastical with social critique. Her stories fit in perfectly with our other Korean b...
  • VOL.50 / 2022.09
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Anton Hur

Korean Translator   Anton Hur   2021.08.02   About Anton   “A little too fluent”—South China Morning PostI am a writer and translator working in Seoul. I was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and raised in British Hong Kong, Ethiopia, and Thailand, but mostly in Korea, where I’ve lived for thirty years. I was awarded the title of Person of Distinguished Service to the Nation after serving in the Korean Army.   • Twitter: @AntonHur, Instagram: @AntonHur, Website: antonhur.com   Book translations   • I Went to See My Father by Kyung-Sook Shin (Astra House, 2023) • Violet by Kyung-Sook Shin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Feminist Press, 2022) • Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (Moonji Books, 2021) • Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park (Grove, Tilted Axis, 2021) • Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (Honford Star, 2021) ...
  • VOL.37 / 2021.08
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Introducing Korean Sci-Fi!

Introducing Korean Sci-Fi!   2021.03.08     Beginning of Sci-Fi in Korea   To pick the genre that the public has actively consumed in Korea for the past several years, it would be "Science Fiction." However, considering the massive fandom and cultural influence of Sci-Fi in other countries such as the United States, it has not been long since the public in Korea has highlighted the genre. This is why some people think that the Sci-Fi syndrome in Korea is a sudden phenomenon. However, Korea's Sci-Fi genre has been shaped to become what it is today from about 100 years ago, creating the foundation for today's Sci-Fi to be at the center of people's attention. Then, learning the history of Korean Sci-Fi will be a good way to understand it better and get a clearer glimpse of its future outlook. The beginning of Sci-Fi in Korea goes back to 1907. The first Sci-Fi work recorded in history isserialized in the journal Taegukhakbo- a journal for Koreans studying in Japan, wh...
  • VOL.32 / 2021.03
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Writer Bora Chung

Korean Authors   Writer Bora Chung A Creative and Fun Storyteller Who Mesmerized the World   2022.06.07   While Korean content – or so-called K-content – is at the center of global attention these days, K-publishing has joined the hot wave. Led by works that have won international prizes, various Korean publications are being globally recognized with rising interest and popularity. Also, Korea’s publishing industry is once again receiving much attention as Cursed Bunny (Arzak), a short-story collection written by Bora Chung, was nominated for the Booker Prize, a prestigious literary award. Author Bora Chung writes stories with the maximum charms of SF fiction using her abundant imagination and fresh topics. Following is an interview with Bora Chung, who expressed her works as “fiction that explores the border between reality and virtual reality.”   ⓒArzak     Please introduce yourself to our subscribers.   H...
  • VOL.47 / 2022.06
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