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Selected translations

Translations by Yu Young-nan available online

  • Hwang Sok-yong: Camel’s Eye tr Yu Young-nan, Words Without Borders 2005
  • Lee Ki-ho: Earnie tr Yu Young-nan, Words Without Borders 2005
  • Lee Ki-ho: Earnie (rap version) tr Kyle Myrhe, Yu Young-nan, Words Without Borders 2005

A look back at our 2020 reading diary

Like many readers, we started the year with good intention of blitzing through the pile of new titles that were promised for the coming months, as well as making inroads into the backlog. And we genuinely got off to a good start with a string of fun K-thrillers, some of them new, some not: The … [Read More]

Yom Sang-seop: Three Generations

(Archipelago, 2005) Translated by Yu Young-nan. First published in Korean in 1931 as 삼 대 and revised in 1948. Chronicles the lives of an extended wealthy family in Japanese-occupied Seoul. The old order gradually fades, the vultures descend for the pickings, while an underground of nationalists and socialists struggle to make a difference. Recommended. Available … [Read More]