Contains exactly the same stories and translations as Ten Korean Short Stories, with the addition of an eleventh, Ha Keun-chan’s The White Paper Beard. However, you may find the other publication easier to track down. The White Paper Beard is available in the collection Two Travellers – though that’s pretty hard to track down too. … [Read More]
Booklist: Literature Fiction and Poetry (page 66)
Meetings and Farewells: Modern Korean Stories
Contains the following stories: Cho Sŏn-jak : The Wall Hwang Sun-won: Retreat Kim Dong-in: The Post Horse Kim Dong-ni: The Rock Kim Seung-ok: A Cup of Coffee Kim Seung-ok: Seoul, 1964, Winter Kim Yu-jeong: The Camellias Oh Young-Soo: Echoes Yi Ho-ch’ŏl: Wearing Thin Yi Hyo-seok: When the Buckwheat Blooms Yi Mun-gu: The Tale of Kim … [Read More]
Modern Korean Short Stories
Contains the following stories Ch’oe In-hun: Laughter (1966) tr Lee Sang-ok Hahn Moo-Sook: The Angel tr Chung Chong-wha Hwang Sok-yong: The Road to Sampo (1973) tr Kim Uchang Hyeon Jin-geon: The Fire tr Kathryn Kisray Kang Shin-jae: The Young Zelkova Tree (1960) tr Shin Hyun-song Kim Dong-in: Red Mountain: A Doctor’s Memoir / The Red … [Read More]
King Sejong: A Novel
No synopsis available. The National Library of Australia categorises the book as biographical fiction. This title is pretty hard to find outside of university libraries. [Read More]
The Stars and other Korean short stories
Bruce Fulton describes this collection as a “good sampling of a consummate short story writer; includes an excellent introduction.” in his article on The Korean War and Beyond, in Modern Korean Fiction in Asianstudies.org. Contains the following stories: A Matter of Custom A Numerical Enigma An Old Man’s Birthday Coarse Sand Conch Shells The Calf … [Read More]
Ulhwa the Shaman: a novel of Korea and three short stories
Contains The Shaman Sorceress / Ulhwa the Shaman plus three short stories: The Rock / The Crag Cry of the magpie The Three Sons [Read More]
Gold Crowned Jesus and Other Writings
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Modern Far Eastern Stories
Publisher description: This anthology of carefully-selected modern stories offers the reader a glimpse into Far Eastern literature that has hitherto been largely unexplored. These stories by contemporary writers, which have been translated by specialists who mostly are or were faculty members of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, reveal the social … [Read More]
Black Crane: An Anthology of Korean Literature
Difficult to obtain other than in a couple of libraries in Denmark and Germany. [Read More]
Korean Short Stories
Contains the following stories: Bare Hills (Kim Dong-in) Adada, the Idiot (Kye Yong-Muk) At the Time When the Buckwheat Blooms (Yi Hyo-Seok) The Third Human Type (An Su-gil) The Echo (O Yong-Su) Silent Parallel (Choi Bum-So) Illusion (Park Kyung-ni) Picture of a Sorceress (Kim Dong-ni) [Read More]
Cry of the People and Other Poems
Also available from LTI Korea. No further information available. [Read More]
Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-century Korean Stories
Not to be confused with Hawon Jung’s 2023 title Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’ s Rights Worldwide – for which see this entry Contains the following stories: Hyeon Jin-geon: The Fire Kim Dong-in: Potatoes / Sweet Potato Yi Hyo-seok: When the Buckwheat Blooms … [Read More]
Where Clouds Pass By: Selected Poems of Cho Byung-Hwa
No further information available. The title appears to be for sale at LTI Korea, and you might find second hand copies available somewhere. [Read More]
Poems from Korea: A historical anthology
Compiled and translated by Peter H. Lee. Foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson Billed as the UNESCO collection of representative works, this volume contains works by many authors, from King Mu of Paekche onwards. According to Stanford University’s Searchworks, this collection was first published in 1964 under the title: Anthology of Korean poetry from the earliest … [Read More]
Virtuous Women – Three Classic Korean Novels
The Three works translated in this volume are recognised as the most significant products of traditional Korean fiction. A Nine Cloud Dream is an allegorical romance about Buddhist and Confucian thought, written by Kim Man-jung, a scholar-statesman of the seventeenth century. It contains passages of both high and low comedy, as well as perceptive character-studies … [Read More]
Samguk Yusa: Legends and History of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea
A fascinating work, dating from the late 1200s. This book (Yusa), is not just a story but a collection of histories, anecdotes and memorabilia, covering the origins of Korea’s three monarchies: Silla, Paekche and Koguryo, offering an account of the latter nation that differs quite a bit from what you’ll read in Chinese history books. … [Read More]