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EL James
EL James, author of the 50 Shades trilogy (Image: Sigongsa, via Korea Times)

EL James’s Fifty Shades trilogy is being translated into Korean, and Volume 1 immediately became the country’s bestselling novel and e-book, according to the Korea Times, who in common with most others is pretty sniffy about the novels’ quality. How the translator managed to turn a 528 page English book into 780 pages of Korean is an interesting question, though the Korean version is meant to be an improvement on the original.

50 Shades of Grey - the Korean cover
50 Shades of Grey – the Korean cover (Image: Sigongsa, via Korea Times)

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