Korean voices, global voices
Just before the month of November comes to an end, I wanted to flag up the fact that Words without Borders (’The Online Magazine for International Literature’) has a special edition this month dedicated to Korean writers. It includes fiction and non-fiction, writing old and new and has pieces by both Ko Un and Hwang Sôg-yông, who regular readers will know have been featured here fairly recently. Now I must find the time to read some of these things myself.
On a not-really-related topic I feel I should link to the Global Voices Online metablog (I think that’s what it should be called anyway), largely because they’ve been linking to me quite a bit recently and it seems like an interesting and admirable project seeking to aid the diversification of the blogworld. I see from a quick google that the site has even had a write-up on the BBC news site. Perhaps it’s slightly ironic that they’re linking me as a voice from Korea when I live in London, where I was born and brought up. And I have no Korean ancestry (as far as I know). Anyway, more power to their elbows, especially when they post such excellent blog round-ups, like this one today from Palestine.
The country tags refer to the subject matter of the post, not just the origin of the voice. But I did correct the last post, which — you’re right — was totally not about Korea.
There’s going to be a Global Voices conference in a couple of weeks in London, BTW.
Comment by Joel Tesoro — November 30, 2005 @ 2:04 am