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	Korean literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traditional Korean literature, written in Chinese characters (hanja), was established at the same time as the Chinese script arrived on the peninsula.
		Korean scholars were writing poetry in the classical Chinese style as early as the 4th century.
		The 1970s saw the emergence of literature that was anti-establishment and dealt with the concerns of rapid industrialization, such as the neglect of farmers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_literature (2277 words)

	Korean poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Korean poetry is poetry performed or written in the Korean language or by Korean people.
		Korean poetry can be traced as far back as 17 BC, with King Yuri's Song of Yellow Birds, but its roots are in still earlier Chinese quatrains.
		Hyangga poetry was written in Korean using Chinese characters (usually in the idu system) and is characteristic of the Silla period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_poetry (877 words)

	Welcome to the Korean Cultural Service
		The earliest known Korean paintings were murals painted on the walls of tombs of the Three Kingdoms period (53 B.C. The paintings of Goguryeo were generally dynamic and rhythmic, those of Baekje elegant and refined, and those of Silla somewhat speculative and meticulous.
		The early literature, which began as an oral tradition, depicted a love of nature and man and held that man was a part of nature.
		During the Goryeo period and the later Joseon period, Korean literature of the upper class, mostly written in classical Chinese, was characterized by an emphasis on philosophic expositions on the Chinese classics, an art that was essential for government service, the only respectable avenue to success outside of teaching.
	www.koreanculture.org /06about_korea/culture_art.htm (1140 words)

	Korean Literature (Character of Korean Literature, Korean Classical Literature, Modern Literature of Korea)
		The literature of the Koryo period is marked by an increased use of Chinese letters, the disappearance of Hyangga, and the emergence of Koryo kayo (Koryo songs) which continued to be transmitted as oral literature until the Choson period.
		Korean modern literature was formed against the background of the crumbling feudalistic society of the Choson Dynasty, the importation of new ideas from the West, and the new political reality of rising Japanese imperial power in East Asia.
		Korean literature was largely unknown to the world until the 1980s, when translations of Korean literary works began to appear in foreign countries.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/korea/literature.htm (5596 words)

	Table of contents for Twentieth-century Korean literature
		It is partly in recognition of the significance of this break that Korean scholars often term the literature of the entire twentieth century "Modern Korean Literature." The twentieth century was not kind to Korea.
		It is literature, therefore, that offers the most concrete and the most abundant knowledge of the sensibilities and habits of thought, the moral values and aesthetic views that guided the lives of Koreans in the twentieth century.
		Since North Korean literature has had a quite separate history since 1950 and possesses distinctive characteristics that require a thorough sociopolitical grounding to grasp, we have judged it to be a task better left for another time and place.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip056/2005001721.html (1013 words)

	Korean alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Koreans borrowed a huge number of Chinese words, gave Korean readings and/or meanings to some of the Chinese characters and also invented about 150 new characters, most of which are rare or used mainly for personal or place names.
		The Korean alphabet was invented in 1444 and promulgated it in 1446 during the reign of King Sejong (r.1418-1450), the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty.
		Most modern Korean literature and informal writing is written entirely in hangeul, however academic papers and official documents tend to be written in a mixture of hangeul and hanja.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/korean.htm (991 words)

	Words Without Borders -> Encountering North Korean Fiction: The Origins of the Future
		It is not, for example, inevitable that characterization in North Korean literature be rough-hewn: although it often is, some writers portray their characters with a sympathy and insight that brings them to life even for a reader outside the ideological framework of Juche.
		Given the revelation of social fissures in North Korean literature, its reception by its audience merits continual consideration; if we focus solely on how the regime wishes its fiction to be interpreted, we run the risk of taking its profession of monolithic solidarity at face value, precisely as its fiction warns us against doing so.
		Kim Chae-yong notes that North Korean literature begins to move away from a one-sided tendency to view its world through rose-colored glasses during the 1990s, and this trend, which gathers steam during the decade, is much in evidence here.
	www.wordswithoutborders.org /article.php?lab=Encountering (2077 words)

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		On this occasion, a number of Korean works have been translated into European languages, exposing the rest of the world to a body of literature about which relatively little is known.
		The demise of tradition, the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910, the collaboration with colonial rulers and the resistance against them are all reflected in the lives of these characters, each possessing his or her own personality, experiential horizon, and views.
		Hwang Sok-yong (born 1943) illustrates how the Korean border tore hundreds of thousands of families apart in the "The Chronicle of a Man named Han" (information here), which is very well known in South Korea and has been staged as a play.
	www.signandsight.com /features/411.html (2889 words)

	Korean Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This volume, Korean Literature: Its Classical Heritage and Modern Breakthroughs, consists of 24 articles that are still considered valuable in the field as academic articles or critical essays that have appeared in the Korea Journal over the past 40 years.
		Part III is a compilation of explanatory writings that facilitate readers' comprehension of traditional literary genres--from pansori to Korean poetry in Chinese--and their aesthetics and ideology, which have influenced both the creation and critique of contemporary Korean literature.
		The final section approaches Korean literature from an international perspective in examining the literature of Korean immigrants living abroad.
	www.hollym.com /onkorea/KoreanLiterature.html (243 words)

	Korean History:: A Bibliography :::::: [LITERATURE]
		Korean Studies at the Dawn of the Millennium: Proceedings of The Second Biennial Conference, Korean Studies Association of Australia.
		"Korean Literature in Manchuria: Exile and Immigrant Literature during the Japanese Colonial Period." Korea Journal 36:4 (Winter 1996): 100-119.
		"Korean Society as Reflected in the Short Stories by Na Tohyang and Hyon Chingon." In Hangukhak ui kwaje wa chonmang: Che-5 hoe kukche haksul hoeui segye Hangukhak taehoe nonmunjip I (Kijo yonsol - yoksa - omun p'yon): Korean Studies, Its Tasks and Perspectives I: Papers of the 5th International Conference on Korean Studies.
	www.hawaii.edu /korea/bibliography/literature.htm (6657 words)

	Early Korean Literature, reviewed by Fouser
		In the case of Early Korean Literature, the author uses the term "early" to refer to all of Korean literature from the formative years to the end of the nineteenth century.
		Prior to the twentieth century, Korean literature included works written in the Korean language and also, because of Korea's close political and cultural association with China and the plain usefulness of the medium, in Chinese.
		Taken together, Early Korean Literature presents a provocative theory of the role of "literary culture" in Korean literature from the late Koryô to the mid-Chosôn periods.
	koreaweb.ws /ks/ksr/ksr01-09.htm (1356 words)

	UWM International IWA Korea Resources
		A fictionalized memoir about growing up as a Korean during the 1930s and 1940s under the Japanese colonial government which was attempting to eradicate Korean cultural identity and turn Koreans into good “Japanese” subjects, including requiring Koreans to change their names to Japanese names.
		In the days when only wealthy Korean children are allowed to attend school, a poor boy named Song-ho learns by listening outside a schoolroom door, which eventually earns him a chance to better himself and make life easier for his widowed mother.
		Based on the life of Induk Pahk, a Korean educator, whose widowed mother disguised her as a boy at the age of eight in order for her to attend school, a choice forbidden to girls in the early twentieth century in that country.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/CIE/Pub/Pub-IWA_Korean_Fiction_Literature.shtml (736 words)

	Committee on Korean Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		She concluded that Korean studies is still evolving and some ways of promoting research in less studied disciplines and of facilitating formal communication between Korean scholars in Korea and Koreanists in North America need to be sought in order to promote well-balanced development in the field.
		Joy Kim’s talk was entitled "Korean Studies Librarianship in the United States: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions." Based on the enthusiastic responses, it was obvious that the audience had keen interest in the topic of Korean collections overseas and the possibility of international cooperation.
		According to Korean studies scholarly publications, there were 720 titles published in 1989 compared to 1,600 titles in 1998, with an annual average growth rate of 10.1%.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/libraries/eastasian/korea/ckm/meetings/m2000.html (2554 words)

	Korean Literature
		Early Korean literature was heavily influenced by Shamanism, Buddhism and
		During the Koryo period, Korean literature of the upper class, mostly written
		It is interesting to note that the Koreans have the least body odor of the all races.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /KoreanLit (771 words)

	Korean Quartely: Fall 1998 Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Issue 8:2, published in December 1997 is entitled "Seeing the Invisible," a thematic reference to the invisible, unknown world of Korean literature outside Korea, and also to formerly invisible Korean women writers.
		It points out that, until recently Korean women writers were not on equal terms with men.
		With changes that came about as a result of the civil war of 1950 to 1953, women writers have become more prominent, more free to publish, and more of their work has been translated.
	www.koreanquarterly.org /Fall1998/revmanoa.asp (319 words)

	A History of Korean Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is a comprehensive narrative history of Korean literature from its inception and the establishment of a royal Confucian academy in the seventh century, through a period during which most literature in Korea was written in Chinese and the subsequent invention of the Korean alphabet in 1443-4, to the present day.
		Consisting of 25 chapters, it covers twentieth-century poetry, fiction by women, and the literature of North Korea.
		This is a major contribution to the field and a study that will stand for many years as the primary resource for studying Korean literature.
	www.koreanbook.de /BookServices/books/0521828589.html (146 words)

	KOREAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		KOREAN 145 Foreign Study: Elementary Korean (1-15, max.
		The Korean language as spoken in ordinary conversational situations.
		KOREAN 445 Foreign Study: Korean Literature (1-15, max.
	www.washington.edu /students/crscat/korean.html (813 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Translation of Korean literature supported
		Income from the endowment will be used to support the translation and publication of translated and original works of Korean literature as well as works on Korean literary themes.
		David McCann, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, observed on the occasion of the fund's establishment that it will enable Harvard to make substantial changes in the Korean literature field, most directly by supporting translations and publications, but also by enhancing the general awareness of Korean literature through other related activities.
		He went on to note that graduate students in the "Modern Korean Poetry" seminar at Harvard are required to select and translate modern poetry, and then submit the translations to literary journals.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/01.23/10-korea.html (522 words)

	Wellesley College Library -Korean
		The University of Toronto has a Korean Studies page with access to a number of Korean editions of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and poetry, as well as two literary magazines (Munhak Dongnae, Munhak Sasangsa), a poetry journal (Sian), and a science fiction magazine (WeiRd).
		Yuldo.net: a Korean Studies Site has general Web links, as well as links to architecture, film, language and literature, and headline news.
		Korean Folk Collection features information on Korean houses, education, livlihood and handicrafts, religion and ceremonies, festivals and entertainment.
	www.wellesley.edu /Library/Research/korean.html (985 words)

	An Introduction to Classical Korean Literature, reviewed by Schroepfer
		Some background about traditional Korean society, literary production and distribution during the Chosôn period, the relationship between elite and popular texts in Korea, and several other general topics would have made this book more valuable as a guide to pre-modern Korean literature.
		The greatest contribution made by An Introduction to Classical Korean Literature is in the chapter Notes on Shijo, in which Kim conveys his experience teaching a course in classical Korean literature in translation at San Jose State University, where, the reader is informed, the author has taught English literature since the 1960's.
		L's son's eighth-grade English honors class" (92), though it is not clear just who Mrs L is, beyond that she wanted to give her eighth-graders "a basic background and history of shijo poetry, and enough understanding of the subject to enable them to write their own shijo poetry" (89).
	koreaweb.ws /ks/ksr/ksr01-16.htm (1027 words)

	Korean Minor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The minor consists of Korean 105-106, and 12 additional credits of 100-level Korean courses.
		An introductory survey of traditional and modern Korean literature read in English translation: love and nature poetry; theater (classical drama, puppet plays); fiction; diaries.
		Study of gender, class, and nation in contemporary Korean society through the lens of current Korean films.
	www.gwu.edu /~eall/acadprg/korean.html (126 words)

	Korean Studies Courses at Harvard University
		The course will examine the seismic events and media, practices, and circulation systems that constitute the contemporary Asian culture scene, and then how these are linked to or disassociated from the past.
		A survey of modern and pre-modern Korean literature in translation.
		Attention to the practices of reading and translation, and to the political contexts of modern Korean poetry.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~korea/courses/literature.html (214 words)

	KAM Culture Literature
		Women and children, whether fl, white, or yellow, of this marginalized land represent yet another segment of diaspora that warrants its own history, cultural identity, and an examination of the points of crossing-over.
		As part of Korean-American literature of the first-generation, An Junghyo's White Badge (Soho, 1989) is followed by a work such as Therese Park's A Gift of the Emperor (Spinsters Ink, 1997).
		The generational and cultural gap existing between the first- and second-generation writers seem to suggest another wall to be crossed.
	www.kamuseum.org /culture/literature/lit4.htm (340 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Korean Literature Book Reviews - Very brief book reviews of modern Korean literature.
		Scripta Humanistica - A scholarly series established for the purpose of publishing significant contributions in the area of humanistic studies: literature, linguistics, philosophy, history, art, and creative writing in both prose fiction and poetry.
		World Literature Reviews - Reviews of some fifty works, by writers from a broad range of countries.
	www.dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/World_Literature (550 words)

	KOREAN LITERATURE TODAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Korean Literature Today publishes English translations of modern Korean literature, together with critical essays.
		Copyright for the translations published in Korean Literature Today and linked to these pages is held by the Korean Center, International P.E.N. on behalf of the individual translators, and written permission must be obtained from both before any of these translations are published or reproduced in any form.
		The publishers of Korean Literature Today Volumes 1 - 5 are grateful to the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation for the very generous grant which made publication possible, and to the Korea Foundation for providing funding for overseas distribution.
	www.sogang.ac.kr /~anthony/klt (204 words)

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