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At DuskHwang Sok-yong
/2018In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point. Park Minwoo is a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighbourhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in his country. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work... -
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The Court DancerKyung-sook Shin
/2018Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history. Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mom... -
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Meeting with My BrotherYi Mun-Yol
/2017Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is a sobering yet hopeful depiction of the volatile relationship between the divided Koreas. Yi, the narrator, is a South Korean university professor searching for his father, who defected to the North at the outbreak of war. Instead he finds his half-brother,... -
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Familiar ThingsHwang Sok-yong
/2017Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a government 're-... -
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The Girl Who Wrote LonelinessKyung-sook Shin
/2015Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve... -
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Flowers of a MomentKO UN
Flowers of a Moment is a treasure trove of more than 180 brief poems by a major world poet at the apex of his career. A four-time Nobel Prize nominee,Ko Un grew up in Korea during the Japanese occupation. During the Korean War, he was conscripted by the People's Army. In 1952, he became a Buddhist... -
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The Shadow of ArmsHwang Suk-Young
/2014A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author's experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides... -
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Princess Bari [Kindle Edition]Hwang Sok-yong
/2015In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess who undertakes a quest for an elixir that will... -
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El huésped [Kindle Edition]Hwang Sok-yong
Fue publicado en Corea en el 2001, siendo un bestseller en su país de origen. En El huésped —como llaman a la viruela en la tradición coreana—, el autor compara dos ideologías occidentales: catolicismo y marxismo, con una plaga mortal, causa de muchos conflictos. Por primera vez en muchos años, el... -
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Por favor, cuida de mamá [Kindle Edition]Kyung-sook Shin
Park So-nyo, una humilde campesina, ha sido durante toda la vida una abnegada madre de familia, una mujer que siempre lo ha sacrificado todo para dar una educación a sus hijos. Ahora, tras haberse perdido en la estación central de Seúl cuando iba a visitar a sus hijos a la ciudad, su búsqueda... -
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Cuentos coreanos del siglo XX [Kindle Edition]Hyeon Jin-Geon
/2004En su mayor parte, los últimos cien años de la literatura coreana han transcurrido entre el dolor y la violencia. Si bien la península se deshizo desus últimos vestigios feudales y accedió a la modernidad a partir de lacaída de la dinastía Choson (1392-1910), en las décadas siguientes... -
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Maninbo: Peace & WarKO UN
Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives) is the title of a remarkable... -
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First Person SorrowfulKO UN
/2012Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' When a writer has published as much as Ko Un has in the course of... -
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The Old GardenHWANG SOK-YOUNG
/2011Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he... -
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I'll Be Right ThereKyung-sook Shin
/2014Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I'll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from... -
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Please Look After Mom [Audio book]Kyung-sook Shin
/2011A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.Told through the... -
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Please Look After MomKyung-sook Shin
/2011A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea--a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation--this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.Told through the... -
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The guestHwang Sok-yong
/2011Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation. During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the...
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Hovitanssija
Kohtalo kuljettaa kuvankauniin korealaisnaisen kauas merten taakse Kyung-sook Shinin aistivoimaisessa historiallisessa romaanissa. Yi Jiniin rakastunut nuori ranskalainen diplomaatti on saanut... -
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ألف حياة وحياة
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Princess Bari
Princess Bari tells the story of a young girl, frail and brave, who escapes from famine and death in North Korea in the 1990s. Seeking refuge in China before crossing oceans in the hold of a cargo... -
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Вона народилася сьомою донькою в сім'ї, де так гаряче чекали на хлопчика. Боячись гніву чоловіка, напівпритомна матір залишає її у лісовій гущавині, однак вірний пес родини, зачувши біду, приносить...
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After K-pop, translated Korean books are now the latest obsession — here are the top Korean authors you should read right now
From K-pop girl groups to the trend-setting runways of Seoul Fashion Week, South Korea has the world transfixed with their unique take on arts and culture. With more than 80 literary works set to be translated and published in 22 languages, Korean authors are now set to spark plenty of buzz in 2019... -
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The virtue of sacrifice showcased in popular stories
Please Look After Mom by the South Korean writer Kyung-sook Shin opens with a family in disarray. Travelling from their home in the Korean countryside to visit their now-grown children in Seoul, an ageing couple find themselves separated from each other in a busy subway station -
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'At Dusk' Exposes South Korea Through A Variety Of Lenses
There has to be an equivalent of Americana in each country; art that digs deep into the culture and history of a place in a way that allows those who consume it to get a sense of what that country's shifting zeitgeist is like. With that in mind, Hwang Sok-yong's At Dusk is a perfect slice of... -
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AUTOUR DE LA CORÉE : RENCONTRE AVEC JEAN-NOËL JUTTET
Du mercredi 21 au samedi 24 août à 16h, quatre moments de rencontres et d'échanges autour de la Corée à travers quatre approches différentes. → La littérature coréenne contemporaine : un autre regard sur le monde ? rencontre avec Jean-Noël Juttet. -
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ТОП-10 книжных новинок июня
Почти неизвестный украинским читателям, Хван Согён является одним из самых известных корейских писателей современности и наиболее вероятным претендентом от Южной Кореи на Нобелевскую премию по литературе.
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PEN World Voices Festival
2018/04/06 to 2018/04/22The Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) (President: Kim Sa-in) sponsored author Hwang Sok-yong’s trip to New York for the PEN America World Voices Festival. The internationally-renowned festival takes place each spring and was held this year from April 6 th to the 22 nd with more... -
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The Turin International Book Fair / Korean Literature Event in Milan
2017/05/08 to 2017/05/14In the second week of May, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea, President: Kim Seong-Kon, professor Emeritus at Seoul National University) held a Korean literature event in Milan with author Hwang Sok-yong, and participated in the Turin International Book Fair and hosted a... -
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The Paris International Book Fair
2016/03/17 to 2016/03/20Korea was invited as the Guest of Honor at the 2016 Paris International Book Fair, held from March 16–20, in celebration of 130 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and France. Nearly 3,000 writers from 45 countries attended the fair where around 800 events were held. A total of 30 Korean... -
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The Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival / The Prague International Book Fair
2015/05/06 to 2015/05/17LTI Korea attended the Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival in Turkey and the Prague International Book Fair in the Czech Republic from May 6 to 17. Writers Yi Mun-yol and Kim Young-ha participated in the events organized by LTI Korea and interacted with their Turkish and Czech fans. On May 7, Yi... -
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Book concert at Bookstores in Finland
2015/06/09 to 2015/06/10Tapaa Etelä-Korean luetuin ja ylistetyin kirjailija Kyung-sook Shin! Shin vierailee Suomessa 7.–11. kesäkuuta 2015. Hän esiintyy Gaudeamus Kirja & Kahvissa (Vuorikatu 7, Helsinki) tiistaina 9. kesäkuuta kello 15.30 ja Pienessä Kirjapuodissa (Yliopistonkatu 28, Turku) keskiviikkona 10. kesäkuuta...
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세계가 취한 우리문학 Republic of Korea / 은평역사한옥박물관 / 2017
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2017 제1회 아시아문학페스티벌 Republic of Korea / 국립아시아문화전당 / 2017
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Kore Roman, Öykü ve Şiir Antolojisi Turkey / Ministry of Culture,Sports and Tourism / 2017
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2014 한국문학번역원 번역아카데미 특별과정 제7기 번역실습 작품집 Republic of Korea / Literature Translation Institute of Korea / 2014
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SHIN KYUNG SOOK Russia / Literature Translation Institute of Korea / 2009