This is now LKL’s fifth annual post that looks at the literature and fiction titles we’re looking forward to over the coming twelve months. Since last year we’ve made things easier for ourselves by investing some time building a book database that aims to catalogue all physical publications of Korean literature in translation, as well … [Read More]
Publisher: Seoul Selection
Selected publications
- Jang Young-jin: A Mark of Red Honor tr John Cha 2022
- Kim Hyeok: Chunja’s Nanjing tr Stella Kim 2022
- Kim Sok-pom: Death of a Crow tr Christina Yi 2022
- Jeong Ho-seung: Loving tr Brother Anthony of Taizé 2020
- Jeong Ho-seung: Lonesome Jar tr Brother Anthony of Taizé 2020
- J.M.G. Le Clézio: Bitna: Under the Sky of Seoul tr Brother Anthony of Taizé 2018
- Do Jong-hwan: No Flower Blooms Without Wavering tr Brother Anthony of Taizé, Jinna Park 2017
- Jeong Ho-seung: Though flowers fall I have never forgotten you tr Brother Anthony of Taizé, Susan Hwang 2016
- Br Anthony, Robert Neff, Various: Brief Encounters: Early Reports of Korea by Westerners 2016
- Jeong Ho-seung: A Letter Not Sent tr Brother Anthony of Taizé 2016
- Philip Onho Lee: Olympic Boulevard tr John Cha 2016
- Park Ynhui: Shadows of the Void tr Brother Anthony of Taizé 2014
- Anthology: Eerie Tales from Old Korea ed Brother Anthony of Taizé 2014
- Robert Koehler: Korea (Seoul Selection Guides) 2013
- Robert Neff: Letters from Joseon: 19th Century Korea Through the Eyes of an American Ambassador’s Wife 2012
- Kim Hyung-geun: Ask a Korean Dude: An Authoritative and Irreverent Guide to the Korea Experience 2012
- Robert Koehler: Seoul (Seoul Selection Guides) 2011
- Anthology: Korean Tea Classics by Hanjae Yi Mok and the Venerable Cho-ui 2011
- Anthology: Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity ed Donald N. Clark 2011
- Jun Kwang-woo: Beyond the Crisis: Korea’s Emergence from the Global Financial Storm of 2008 2011
- Andrew Salmon, Elizabeth Shim, John Rich, Robert Koehler: Korean War in Color: A Correspondent’s Retrospective on a Forgotten War 2011
- Andrew Douch, David A Mason, Roger Shepherd: Baekdu-Daegan Trail: Hiking Korea’s Mountain Spine 2010
- Br Anthony, Hong Kyeong-hee: The Korean Way of Tea 2007
- Mok Sun-ok: My husband the poet tr Brother Anthony of Taizé 2006
- Ku Sang: Eternity Today tr Brother Anthony of Taizé 2005
Eerie Tales from Old Korea – republished 100 years on
100 years ago, Homer B Hulbert and James Scarth Gale translated and published “Eerie Tales from Old Korea”, a collection of Korean ghost stories. Now Brother Anthony of Taize has handpicked some of those tales, and Seoul Selection has republished them to celebrate the 150th birthdays of Gale and Hulbert. It’s definitely going on to … [Read More]
Book review: Walking the Baekdu-Daegan trail
Roger Shepherd & Andrew Douch, with David A Mason: Baekdu Daegan Trail Seoul Selection, 2010, 446pp Korea is a mountainous country. If you google that phrase you will learn that 70% of South Korea’s land mass is designated as upland or mountains. And everyone knows that a lot of Koreans love hiking in the hills. … [Read More]
Mythology in the making: Seoul Selection’s Lee Myung-bak profile
Lee Myung Bak: Korea’s CEO President Seoul Selection, 2008 When their country has pulled itself up from the devastation of war in the space of fifty years, and a man has risen from poverty to the highest office in the same period, Koreans have every right to feel proud of themselves and their country. That … [Read More]