After the mild disappointment that was the audiobook of Kim Bo-young’s I’m Waiting for You (let down by the somewhat unwieldy story The Prophet of Corruption) it was with a slight sense of wariness that I embarked upon the Kaya collection of her short stories On the Origin of Species. I was also cautious because … [Read More]
Translator: Joungmin Lee Comfort
Selected translations
- Soyoung Park: Snowglobe tr Joungmin Lee Comfort, Penguin 2024
- Kim Bo-young: On the Origin of Species and Other Stories tr Joungmin Lee Comfort, Sora Kim-Russell, Kaya 2021
Literature and poetry in translation titles for 2021: more than a dozen to look forward to!
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]