2024 was a busy year for Korea-related books in English. Over one hundred books from the year made their way into the LKL Korea Book DataBase, and there were many more that didn’t make the cut. As translated Korean literature becomes ever more prominent in our bookstores, 2024 was, of course, the year in which … [Read More]
Translator: Janet Poole
Selected translations
- Anthology: Island Ablaze and Other Stories ed Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee and Sang-Kyung Lee, Cornell East Asia Series 2025
- Ch'oe Myong-ik: Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories tr Janet Poole, Columbia University Press 2024
- Yi Tae-jun: Dust and other stories tr Janet Poole, Columbia University Press 2018
- Ch'oe Myong-ik: Walking in the Rain (Bi-lingual, Vol 94 – Colonial Intellectuals Turned “Idiots”) tr Janet Poole, Asia Publishers 2015
- Yi Tae-jun: Eastern Sentiments tr Janet Poole, Columbia University Press 2009
Publications by Janet Poole as author
- When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea, Columbia University Press 2014
SOAS Centre of Korean Studies early 2016 seminars
SOAS’s Centre of Korean Studies has announced its seminar programme for the first few months of 2016: Date Speaker Topic 22 Jan Professor Hazel Smith North Korea: Markets and Military Rule 29 Jan Dr. Janet Poole Picturing a Moment: The Photograph and the Newspaper in Early Colonial Korea 5 Feb Patrick Messerlin, Jimmyn Parc The … [Read More]