Charles Montgomery has a great post on where to start in translated Korean literature, and in another article shares Five Korean “Classics” To Avoid:
- Heartless (Yi Kwang-su, 1917)
- Aunt Suni (Hyeon Ki-young, 1978)
- Between Heaven and Earth (Yun Dae-nyong, 1996)
- A Man (Hwang Sun-won) and
- Buckwheat Season (Yi Hyo-sok, 1936).
One day, I’m going to read some of those. One day …