The Literature Translation Institute of Korea held an international academic symposium from December 10 to 13, 2002 at Seoul National University’s Hoam Faculty House. The symposium, held under the theme of “Korean Literature for the World,” was divided into four sections, following keynote speeches by Lee O-young, the former minister of Culture and Education of Korea, and Anatoli Kim, a Korea-Russian writer. The themes of the four sections were “Translation of Literature,” “Overseas Acceptance-Reading Korean Literature,” ”Identity and Universality of Literature,” and “Policy on the Introduction of Korean Literature Overseas>.