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An Interview with Kim Ki-Taek

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Article
http://cordite.org.au/interviews/kim-ki-taek/
Journal
Cordite Poetry Review
Issued Date
November 08, 2011
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
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Book
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Writer
Kim Ki-taek

About the Author

  • Kim Ki-taek
  • Birth : 1957 ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Ki-taek
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김기택
  • ISNI : 0000000054234970
  • Works : 13
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  • English(English)

As I write this introduction, it occurs to me that the following interview constitutes my first unmediated communication with Kim Ki-taek (if we discount the technology through which we’ve communicated), that is to say a communication unmediated by a third, human, party. All of our interactions on our recent exchange to Seoul and the Korean poets’ subsequent visit to Australia utilised (to varying degrees) the services of professional interpreters and/or accommodating English speaking Koreans. We could not have done without them – not to minimise some of the Korean poets’ facility with the English language, but rather to highlight our lack of, and in my case non-existent Korean. How we were accommodated! and how I’m accommodated again in the instance of this interview, by Kim Ki-taek’s insistence that he respond in writing, in English, to my questions, allowing for our first unmediated communication. Though my formerly non-existent Korean now exists, it does so tenuously, and the only vocabulary at the ready in my arsenal (hello, thank you, I don’t know) hardly an interview makes. So with the threat of its extinction (from lack of use) on the horizon let me preface the interview in saying, and in no small way, kamsahamnida Kim Ki-taek.   Source: http://cordite.org.au/interviews/kim-ki-taek/

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