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Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 3

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by Peter Corbishley on 15 December, 2009

in Korean literature in translation

Peter Corbishley offers his entry into the “There a Petal Silently Falls” essay competition. A Korean novella – a human tragedy It is unnerving to have images from a half-recollected film [1] play through a reading of There a Petal Silently Falls. [2] Yet that sense of disorientation evocatively models how the girl’s bewildered spirit-awareness [...]

Tagged as: KLTI Essay Contest, Kwangju, There a Petal

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Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 2

by Philip Gowman 11 December 2009
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The LKL Editor contributes his own unsuccessful entry into the “There a Petal Silently Falls” essay contest. Ghosts of Kwangju Ch’oe Yun’s There a petal silently falls is an interesting choice for a first Korean literature essay contest. Elusive in content, obscure in characterisation and insubstantial in length, it encourages a discussion not about the [...]

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Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 1

by Michael Rank 10 December 2009
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Earlier this year the Korean Literature Translation Institute sponsored an essay competition based on Ch’oe Yun’s There a Petal Silently Falls. Now that the finalists have been announced, Michael Rank is the first to offer his submission for publication on the pages of LKL. The Kwangju (Gwangju) massacre of 1980 has been called the most [...]

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Sandglass the best TV drama ever?

by Philip Gowman 12 February 2009
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A run-down of the top Korean TV dramas, as voted on by the experts.

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May 18 – surprise hit of the LKFF

by Philip Gowman 18 November 2008
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A review of May 18, a modern historical drama about Korea’s Tiananmen Square incident

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Donald Kirk & Choe Sang-hun (eds): Korea Witness

by Philip Gowman 30 October 2006
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135 Years of War, Crisis and News in the Land of the Morning Calm (EunHaengNaMu, Seoul, 2006) A tribute to the many foreign correspondents who have worked in Seoul, this book celebrates 50 years of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club. The book starts with one of the first mentions of Korea in the Western press: [...]

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Gi-Wook Shin & Kyung-moon Hwang (eds): Contentious Kwangju

by Philip Gowman 17 April 2006

(Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) Varied collection of articles on the subject of Korea’s Tiananmen Square incident, ranging from the eyewitness account to academic reassessment. The people of Kwangju: innocent victims or resistance heroes? Discuss. Links: Bibliography of the Kwangju Uprising (in English) – at Popular Gusts

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