Literature in translation has long been reliant on indie presses to bring work such as the South Korean author’s to wider audiences• South Korea’s Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel prize in literature – as it happenedThe announcement of the South Korean writer Han Kang as the 2024 Nobel Literature... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-10 17:04:48 UTC ]
The collective stand from South Korea's KOCCA will present seven K-comics companies at Frankfurter Buchmesse this month. Sponsored. The post KOCCA’s Frankfurt Stand: Seven K-Comics Companies appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-10-07 10:35:55 UTC ]
For print management company Imago, its partner network has remained the same in the past year. “We continue to source from China, India, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, as well as Europe,” says president and CEO Howard Musk, adding that China remains the most significant location. “But we are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
With the debut of Webtoon on the U.S. stock market dominating comics world headlines last month, South Korea’s other webcomic and webnovel giant, Kakao Entertainment, and its Tapas platform are eyeing ambitions of their own. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
It'll soon be Apple's turn to talk about its next major operating system updates, giving developers a chance to get their apps ready ahead of a broad rollout this fall. The company's Worldwide Developers Conference is right around the corner. Apple is sure to reveal some of the main features of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-06-04 16:29:40 UTC ]
It'll soon be Apple's turn to talk about its next major operating system updates, giving developers a chance to get their apps ready ahead of a broad rollout this fall. The company's Worldwide Developers Conference is right around the corner. Apple is sure to reveal some of the main features of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-05-30 19:58:03 UTC ]
7 Questions for Kim Hye-jin, by Michelle Johnson Interviews [email protected] Mon, 04/22/2024 - 09:49 Photo © Lee HaesooOn March 20, Restless Books published Kim Hye-jin’s Counsel Culture, a novel about a woman’s scapegoating and her path to... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-04-22 14:49:51 UTC ]
In January 2016, I was an unpublished writer working on my first novel when I learned of an artist residency on a tiny island off the west coast of South Korea. Excited, I daydreamed of finishing my manuscript in my motherland, visiting family, and of course, eating an abundance of delicious... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-04-18 11:05:00 UTC ]
Netflix's ad-supported tier finally has a release date, and it's now clear just what sacrifices you'll have to make to get a lower price. The new "Basic with Ads" plan will be available November 3rd at 12PM Eastern for $7 per month. It will initially be available to viewers in 12 countries,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-10-13 17:45:26 UTC ]
Google is honoring South Korea's law requiring support for third-party payments, but not quite in the way you might have expected. The Wall Street Journalreports Google will allow the use of alternative payment systems for Play Store apps in South Korea. Check out with a supporting app and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-11-04 13:42:55 UTC ]
In late May, over the Memorial Day weekend, the top story on NBC’s Meet the Press was a recent vote by Republican senators to kill the prospect of an independent, fully bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. (Six Republicans backed the commission, but... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-26 12:44:33 UTC ]
Western works of science fiction were not easily accessible in translation in South Korea until recent years. The country was ruled by a succession of military dictatorships until around 1992, and before that time, South Korean culture had been surveilled through a state censorship system that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-05-27 08:50:01 UTC ]
Culture Street mural for Grenfell Tower, with poem by Ben Okri, North Kensington, London, image courtesy of IranWire and #PaintTheChange. London-based writer Malu Halasa canvasses the Middle Eastern and North African culture scene in London,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-04-19 19:22:28 UTC ]
To close out October’s theme of beauty privilege, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss Say Hello by Carly Findlay and If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha. From the episode: Sumaiyya: My discussion pick is If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha, which is set in Seoul, South Korea. This looks at four young women... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-21 08:47:55 UTC ]
This week, amid a deluge of vaguely horrifying, opportunistic-seeming quarantine-related reading lists, here’s something that seems genuinely good: a South Korean e-book startup is waiving its subscription fee for coronavirus patients and people under quarantine in the country. “We hope that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-10 16:59:11 UTC ]
E.J. Koh’s memoir The Magical Language of Others floats stunningly through the abandonment she experienced as a teenager. When she was fifteen, her parents returned home to South Korea for a more lucrative job opportunity, leaving her behind in the United States with her college-going brother. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-02-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers across South Korea have suffered slowing book sales for nearly a decade, even as the Korean goverment has begun working to combat closures. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The decision of Amazon-owned website AbeBooks.com to withdraw from Hungary, the Czech Republic, South Korea and Russia has reportedly sparked an international protest of antiquarian booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the first time, UK publishers will form the biggest international contingent at the Beijing International Book Fair this year, overtaking Japan and South Korea, historically the two largest national parties. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
In September, 'Publishers Weekly' partnered with the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea to bring a group of South Korean editors and marketers to New York for an overview of how the U.S. book industry works. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]