By Colin Marshall This is one in a series of essays on important pieces of Korean cinema freely available on the …
The March of Fools: a College Comedy Darkened by Dictatorship
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: What about War?
By Charles Montgomery The LARB Korea Blog is currently featuring selections from The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation, …
Eating Korea: an Anthony Bourdain-Approved Search for the Culinary Soul of an Ever-Changing Country
By Colin Marshall Koreans I meet for the first time tend to draw all their questions from the same well. …
Koreans in Strange Lands: The History- and Culture-Saturated Fiction of Jo Jung-Rae
By Charles Montgomery One month ago, in this space, I discussed Jo Jung-Rae’s How in Heaven’s Name, a historical novel …
Will Korea’s Most Famous Buddhist Monk and His Tweets of Zen Wisdom Play in America?
By Colin Marshall “Penguin’s English translation of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down comes out in …
When Chris Marker Freely Photographed, and Briefly Fell in Love with, North Korea
By Colin Marshall Even though I live there, I still only with difficulty perceive Northeast Asia through any lens not …
A Rare Korean War Story in How in Heaven’s Name
By Charles Montgomery Korean translated literature very rarely features straightforward “war” stories, tending instead to focus on interpersonal and savagely …
Haruki Murakami Has More Books Out in Korean than He Ever Will in English
Whenever someone has made progress studying a foreign language and asks which author they should try reading in that language, …
The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: After Colonialism and Into Civil War
By Charles Montgomery During the colonial period, the Japanese invaders determined what would and would not happen in Korean literature, …
The Korean President’s Artist Blacklist, Product of an Insecure State
By Colin Marshall The notion of an artist blacklist evokes the ugliest chapters of the Cold War more than the …
