Jenny Wang Medina | London Korean Links

Selected translations

Anthology: Readymade Bodhisattva ed Sunyoung Park and Sang Joon Park, Kaya 2019
Oh Jung-hee: The Bird tr Jenny Wang Medina, Telegram Books 2007

Collections that include work by Jenny Wang Medina

The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature, Routledge 2022

Translations by Jenny Wang Medina available online

Park Min-gyu: Say Ah, Pelican tr Jenny Wang Medina, Words Without Borders 2014

Oh Jung-hee: The Bird

posted 3 May 2007 updated 8 Apr 2021 by Philip Gowman 2 minute read

Telegram Books, 2007 Originally published as 새, 2003 Translated by Jenny Wang Medina Another of those enigmatic, slightly depressing modern Korean novels which causes you to have sympathy with the large number of Koreans who are turning to Japanese novels for their entertainment. Set during the mid 90s economic slump, the story chronicles the lives … [Read More]

North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov pub McFarland 2007 (updated 30 Sep)

Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence ed Chiew-Ping Hoo, Shine Choi and Brian Bridges pub Routledge 2024 (updated 29 Sep)

The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea by Victor Cha pub Columbia University Press 2024 (updated 28 Sep)

Every Moment Was You: Notes on Loving and Parting [forthcoming] by Ha Tae-wan tr Shanna Tan pub Piatkus expected May 2025 (updated 28 Sep)

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