Wednesday, October 24, 2018

food of Koryo Saram, USSR experiences and Kazakhstan from 1937 onward

The article at AtlasObscura about food customs brought to Kazakhstan after the 1937 transport of people from Korea to Central Asia is detailed and eye-opening for many readers. This sad chapter of forcible uprooting is told at length in David Chung's 2007 documentary, Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People.


In 2010 Dave Cook, a food writer with a talent for highlighting lesser known cuisine, endorsed a mom-and-pop cafe just off Brooklyn's Brighton Beach boardwalk in the New York Times. By writing ...
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Thursday, October 4, 2018

literature of Korea in translation

Digital library of written works made available, courtesy of the Literary Translation Institute of Korea, https://www.ltikorea.or.kr/en/