By Colin Marshall Not long before moving from Los Angeles to Seoul, I went book-shopping with my Korean language exchange …
Why Do Koreans Love Herman Hesse’s Demian Above All Other Western Novels?
The Korea Blog
Dispatches on the literature, cinema, current events, and daily life of Korea from the LARB’s man in Seoul Colin Marshall and others.
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The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: Alienation, Politics, and Women
By Charles Montgomery The LARB Korea Blog is currently featuring selections from The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation, …
Soju, Beer Pong, and the Romance of Cultural Exchange (or the Cultural Exchange of Romance)
By Stefano Young Stefano Young didn’t know the difference between Korea, China, and Japan until he was 23 — but …
The Know-How of Korean Netizens in a High-Spec New Paradigm of Synergy: or, Korea’s Dilbert-Era Loanwords
By Colin Marshall Lulled into a false sense of security by the simplicity of its alphabet, those students of the …
The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: The Social Tragedies of the “Economic Miracle”
By Charles Montgomery The LARB Korea Blog is currently featuring selections from The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation, …
Meeting Her Parents, Meeting Her Country: an American’s First Taste of Korea
By Stefano Young Stefano Young didn’t know the difference between Korea, China, and Japan until he was 23 — but …
The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: Deeper Into the War’s Aftermath, a Deeper Sense of Separation
By Charles Montgomery The LARB Korea Blog is currently featuring selections from The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation, …
Western Avenue: How Korean Cinema Portrayed the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
By Colin Marshall The Korean name of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, sa-i-gu (사이구), means “four, two, nine” — or …
The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: War and Separation
By Charles Montgomery The LARB Korea Blog is currently featuring selections from The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation, …
Reforming a Leper Colony and Other Tricky Tasks: Three Recent Volumes of Translated Korean Fiction
By Charles Montgomery While I’ve been messing around trying to post the Explorer’s Guide To Translated Literature here, missing deadlines, …
