literature of Korea - in English translation

as of December 2015:

Korean Poetry in English translation

-title in English

-author

-translated by

-publisher

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Beating on Iron
Kim Soo-Bok
Translated by Brother Anthony
Green Integer

Maninbo: Peace & War
Ko Un
Translated by Brother Anthony / Lee Sang-Wha
Bloodaxe

Patterns
Lee Si-Young
Translated by Brother Anthony / Yoo Hui-Sok
Green Integer

Wild Apple
Heeduk Ra
Translated by Daniel Parker etc
White Pine

The Colors of Dawn: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry
An anthology of poems by 44 poets
Translated by Brother Anthony, Chung Eun-Gwi, etc
Manoa (University of Hawai?i Press, early 2016)


Korean novels in English translation

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness
Kyung-Sook Shin
Translated by Ha-Yun Jung
Pegasus

The Investigation
J. M. Lee
Translated by Chi-Young Kim
Pegasus

Princess Bari
Hwang Sok-Yong
Translated by Sora Kim-Russell
Periscope

Nowhere to Be Found
Bae Suah
Translated by Sora Kim-Russell
Amazon Crossing

The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher
Ahn Do-hyeon
Translated by Deborah Smith
PanMacmillan

The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Translated by Deborah Smith
Portobello Books

Human Acts
Han Kang
Translated by Deborah Smith
Portobello Books (January 2016)

Modern Family
Myeong-kwan Cheon
Translated by Kyoung-lee Park
White Pine

The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women
9 authors
Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton / Bruce Fulton
Zephyr (February 2016)


Dalkey Archive?s Library of Korean Literature added 5 more titles late in 2015:

Son of Man 
Yi Mun-yol 
Translated by Brother Anthony of Taiz? 

A Good Family 
Seo Hajin 
Translated by Ally Hwang & Amy Smith 

God Has No Grandchildren 
Kim Gyeong-uk 
Translated by Sunok Kang 

The Private Lives of Plants 
Lee Seung-U 
Translated by Inrae You Vinciguerra & Louis Vinciguerra 

Rina 
Kang Young-sook 
Translated by Kim Boram 

These are in addition to last year's 14 Dalkey Archive Korean Literature volumes:

Stingray by Kim Joo-young 
One Spoon on This Earth by Hyun Ki Young 
When Adam Opens His Eyes by Jang Jung-il 
My Son?s Girlfriend by Jung Mi-kyung 
A Most Ambiguous Sunday, and Other Stories by Jung Young Moon 
The House with a Sunken Courtyard by Kim Won-il 
At Least We Can Apologize by Lee Ki-ho 
The Soil by Yi Kwang-su 
Lonesome You by Park Wan-suh 
No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-jin 
Pavane for a Dead Princess by Park Min-Gyu 
The Square by Choi In-Hun 
Scenes from the Enlightenment: A Novel of Manners by Kim Namcheon 
Another Man?s City by Ch?oe In-Ho 


Asia Publishers have continued to add to their K-Library of Korean short fiction in bilingual volumes in 2015:

Kong?s Garden by Hwang Jung-eun
Danny by Yun I-hyeong
Homecoming by Cheon Myeong-kwan

Korean Indie rock vs. K-POP

Article in Asia Pacific Review this week, http://japanfocus.org/-Stephen-Epstein/4401/article.html

Stephen Epstein, "Us and Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World", The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 46, No. 1, November 30, 2015

Précis: This article, intended as a companion to the recent documentary Us and Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World co-produced by Stephen Epstein and Timothy Tangherlini, situates Korean indie and punk rock within a broader context in order to demonstrate how what may seem a byway within Korean culture serves as a useful index of important recent societal transformations. As the nature of not only global media flows and musical circulation but Korean national identity and economic structures all undergo significant change, how should observers understand "Korean" "indie" music and its meanings as of 2015? How have the local punk and indie scenes developed in concert with, and in contrast to, K-pop?

Key words: South Korea, popular music, indie music, punk, K-pop.