Most recent update December 5, 2012

A list of English translations published before 2001 is also available

English Translations of Korean Literature Published since 2000

 

Year

Original title(s)

Title of published translation

Original Author(s)

Translator(s)

Publisher

 

Poetry

2012

Table of Contents

First Person Sorrowful

고은

Ko Un

Brother Anthony

Lee Sang-Wha

Bloodaxe

 

Poetry

2012

히말라야 시편

Himalaya Poems

고은

Ko Un

Brother Anthony

Lee Sang-Wha

Green Integer

 

Poetry

2012

시선집-그늘의 발달

The Growth of a Shadow

문태준

Taejoon Moon

Kim Won-Chung

Christopher Merrill

Autumn Hill Books

 

Poetry

2012

시절 하나 온다, 잡아먹자

A new season approaching: Devour it

이경림

Lee KyungLim

Wolhee Choe

Robert E. Hawks

Hawks Media, Inc.,

 

Fiction

2012

서편제

Seopyeonje – The Southerners' Songs

이청준

Yi Chung-jun

Ok Young Kim Chang

Peter Owen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction

2011

엄마를 부탁해

Please Look After Mom

신경숙

Kyung-Sook Shin

Chi-Young Kim

Knopf

 

Fiction

2011

토지

Land 1,2,3

박경리

Park Kyong-Ni

Agnita Tennant

Global Oriental

 

Fiction

2011

 

A Chain of Dark Tales

정영문

Jung Young-Moon

Inrae You

Louis Vinciguerra

Stallion (Singapore)

 

Fiction

2011

 

The Island

임철우

Lim Chul-woo

Inrae You

Louis Vinciguerra

Stallion (Singapore)

 

Fiction

2011

 

Scenes from Ch’onggye Stream

박태원

T’ae-wŏn Pak

Ok Young

Kim Chang

Stallion (Singapore)

 

Poetry

2011

Table of Contents

Walking on a Washing Line

김승희

Kim Seung-Hee

Brother Anthony

Lee Hyung-Jin

Cornell East Asia Series

 

Poetry

2011

 

Instances

최정례

Jeongrye Choi

Brenda Hillman,

Wayne de Fremery,

Jeongrye Choi

Parlor Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction

2010

빛의 제국

Your Republic is Calling You

김영하

Kim Young-Ha

Chi-Young Kim

Mariner Books

 

Fiction

2010

 

The Long Road

김인숙

Kim In-Suk

Stephen J. Epstein

MerwinAsia

 

Fiction

2010

Table of Contents

On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea

 

Sunyoung Park

Jefferson J.A. Gatrall

Cornell East Asia Series

 

Fiction

2010

Table of Contents

A Moment’s Grace: Stories from Korea

 

John Holstein

Cornell East Asia Series

Classics

2010

이목: 차부

초의:차신전,동차송

Korean Tea Classics

이복, 초의

Yi Mok, Cho-ui

Brother Anthony

Hong Kyeong-Hee

Steven D. Owyoung

Seoul Selection

 

Poetry

2010

 

Translucency

성찬경

Chankyung Sung

Won-Chung Kim

Christopher Merrill

Homa & Sekey

 

Poetry

2010

 

I Heard Life Calling Me

이성복

Yi Sŏng-Bok

Hye-Jin Juhn Sidney

George Sidney

Cornell East Asia Series

Poetry

2010

김영랑 전집

Until Peonies Bloom

김영랑

Kim Yeong-Nang

Brother Anthony

MerwinAsia

Anthology

2010

Azalea Vol 3

Korea Center, Harvard U

University of Hawai’i Press

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Essays

2009

무서록(無序綠)

Eastern Sentiments

이태준

Yi T’ae-jun

Janet Poole

Columbia UP

Fiction

2009

Table of Contents

Lost Souls: Stories

황순원

Hwang Sun-won

Bruce Fulton;

Ju-Chan Fulton

Columbia UP

Fiction

2009

오래된 정원

The Old Garden

황석영

Hwang Sok-yong

Jay Oh

Seven Stories Press

Fiction

2009

인간문제

From Wŏnso Pond

강경애

Kang Kyŏng-Ae

Samuel Perry

Feminist Press

Fiction

2009

a In the Realm of the Buddha

b Spirit on the Wind

c The Red Room

The Red Room

 

a 박완서 Pak Wan-so

b 우정희 O Chong-hui

c 철우Im Chor-u

Bruce Fulton;

Ju-Chan Fulton

University of Hawai’i Press

Fiction

2009

Tongue

조경란

Kyung Ran Jo

Chi-Young Kim

Bloomsbury

Fiction

2009

많던 싱아는 누가 먹었을까

Who Ate Up All the Shinga?:

An Autobiographical Novel

박완서

Park Wan-suh

Yu Young-nan

Stephen Epstein

Columbia University Press

 

Poetry

2009

 

Scale and Stairs

나희덕

Heeduck Ra

Won-Chung Kim

Christopher Merrill

White Pine

Poetry

2009

The Brush and the Sword:

Kasa

Sung-Il Lee

Cross-Cultural Communications

Poetry

2009

고은:시선집

TOC

Songs for Tomorrow

A Collection of Poems

1960-2002

고은

Ko Un

Brother Anthony

Kim Young-Moo

Gary G. Gach

Green Integer

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Anthology

2008

Table of Contents

Azalea Vol 2

Korea Center, Harvard U

University of Hawai’i Press

Anthology

2008

New Writing from Korea 1

KLTI

Fiction

2008

Diary of a Vagabond

송영

Song Young

Jason Park

Codhill Press

Fiction

2008

수색

Susaek

이순원

Lee Sun-Won

Kang Hyunsook, Lee Jinah, Robert Parker

Homa & Sekey

Fiction

2008

Table of Contents

There a Petal Silently Falls:

3 stories

최윤

Ch’oe Yun

Bruce and

Ju-Chan Fulton

Weatherhead Books

Columbia University Press

Poetry

2008

뭐냐 : 선시

TOC

What? (revised edition of   Beyond Self (1997)

고은

Ko Un

Brother Anthony

Young-Moo Kim

Parallax

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

 

 

Anthology

2007

Table of Contents

Azalea Vol 1

Korea Center, Harvard U

University of Hawai’i Press

 

 

Fiction

2007

나는 나를 파괴할 권리가 있다

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

김영하

Kim Young-Ha

Chi-Young Kim

Harvest Books

 

 

Fiction

2007

장난감 도시

Toy City

이동하

Lee Dong-ha

Chi-Young Kim

Koryo Press

Fiction

2007

The Bird

오정희

Oh Jung-Hee

Jenny Wang Medina

Telegram Books

Fiction

2007

Table of Contents

Dead Silence and other stories of the Jeju massacre

현길언

Hyun Kil-Un

Hyunsook Kang

Jin-Ah Lee

John M. McGuire

EastBridge

Fiction

2007

Table of Contents

Land of Exile:

Contemporary Korean Fiction, Expanded Edition

anthology

Marshall R. Pihl

Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton

M.E. Sharpe

Poetry

2007

진달래꽃

Azaleas: A Book of Poems

김소월

Kim So-Wol

David McCann

Weatherhead Books

Columbia University Press

Poetry

2007

What is Darkening

나희덕

Ra (Na) Heeduk

Choi Jongyoll

Jain

Poetry

2007

Gas Light

김광균

Kim Gwang-gyoon

Kyongju Hong- Ryou

Codhill

Poetry

2007

Woman on the Terrace

문정희

Moon Chung-hee

Seong-Kon Kim and Alec Gordon

White Pine

Drama

2007

Table of Contents

Four Contemporary Plays by Lee Yun-Taek

이윤택

Lee Yun-Taek

Dongwook Kim

Richard Nichols

University Press of America

Drama

2007

Table of Contents

Allegory of Survival: The Theater of Kang-baek Lee

이강백

Kang-baek Lee

Alyssa Kim

Hyung-jin Lee

Cambria

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

 

 

Fiction

2006

난장이가 쏘아올린 작은

The Dwarf

조세희

Cho Se-hui

Bruce and

Ju-Chan Fulton

University of Hawai’i Press

Modern Korean Fiction

 

 

Fiction

2006

Table of Contents

The Dog Thief

임철우

Chul-Woo Lim

Myung-Hee Kim

Tamal Vista

 

 

Fiction

2006

마른

Weathered Blossom

박완서

Park Wan-suh

Yu Youngnan

Hollym (bilingual, illustrated short story series)

 

 

Fiction

2006

봉순이 언니

My Sister Bogsoon

공지영

Gong Ji-yeong

Park Jung-eun

Mosaic

Poetry

2006

순간의

Flowers of a Moment

고은

Ko Un

Brother Anthony

Kim Young-Moo

Gary G. Gach

BOA Editions

 

 

Poetry

2006

Eyes of Dew

마종기

Chonggi Mah

Brother Anthony

White Pine Press

 

 

Poetry

2006

Journey to Seoul

김광규

Kim Kwang-Kyu

Brother Anthony

답게 DapGae (Seoul)

 

 

Poetry

2006

Table of Contents

Enough to Say It's Far

박재삼

Pak Chaesam

David R. McCann

Jiwon Shin

Princeton University Press

 

 

Poetry

2006

Table of Contents

The Three Way Tavern

고은

Ko Un

Clare You

Richard Silberg

U California Press

 

 

Poetry

2006

Abiding Places, Korea South & North

고은

Ko Un

Sunny Jung

Hillel Schwartz

Tupelo Press

 

 

Poetry

2006

Anxiety of Words:

Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women

최성자 Choe Sung-ja

김혜순 Kim Hyesoon

이년주 Yi Yon-ju

Don Mee Choi

Zephyr Press

 

 

Poetry

2006

On an Autumn Night: Classical Korean Poetry in Translation

anthology

Richard Mayer

Jiagu

 

 

Poetry

2006

The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and Koryo

anthology

Kevin O’Rourke

University Of Iowa

 

 

Prose

2006

날개 없는 짝이 되어

My Husband the Poet

목순옥

Mok Sun-ok

Brother Anthony

Seoul Selection

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

 

 

Fiction

2005

손님

The Guest

황석영

Hwang Sok-Yong

Kyung-Ja Chun

Maya West

Seven Stories Press

 

 

Fiction

2005

생의 이면

The Reverse Side of Life

이승우

Lee Seung-U

Yoo-Jung Kong

Peter Owen Publishers

 

 

Fiction

2005

무정

Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature: Mujong

이광수
Yi Kwang-su

Ann Sung-hi Lee

Cornell East Asia Series

 

 

Fiction

2005

화엄경

Little Pilgrim

고은
Ko Un

Brother Anthony
Kim Young-Moo

Parallax Press

 

 

Fiction

2005

Table of Contents

Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology

Bruce Fulton

Young-min Kwon,

eds.

Columbia University Press

 

 

Fiction

2005

Table of Contents

Strength from Sorrow 

양귀자

Yang Gui-ja

Youngju Ryu

Cross-Cultural Communications Press

 

 

Fiction

2005

둔황의 사랑

누란의 사랑 (The Love of Loulan)

The Love of Dunhuang

윤후명

Yun Humyong

Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, 

Steffen F. Richards

Cross-Cultural Communications Press

 

 

Fiction

2005

Three Generations

염상섭
Yom Sang-seop

Yu Youngnan

Archipelago books

 

 

Fiction

2005

나무들 비탈에 서다

Trees on a Slope

황순원
Hwang Sun-won

Bruce &

Ju-Chan Fulton

University of Hawai’i Press

 

 

Fiction

2005

Table of Contents

Panmunjom and Other Stories

이호철
Lee Ho-chul

Theodore Hughes,

Bruce

& Ju-Chan Fulton

EastBridge

 

 

Fiction

2005

역사는 흐른다

And So Flows History

한무숙
Hahn Moo-sook

Young-Key

Kim-Renaud

University of Hawai’i Press

 

 

Fiction

2005

모순

Contradictions

양귀자
Yang Kwi-ja

Stephen Epstein

Kim Mi-Young

Cornell East Asia Series

 

 

Fiction

2005

Selected works

Cry of the Harp

최정희

Choe Chung-hui

Genell Poitras

EastBridge

 

 

Graphic fiction

2005

Buja's Diary

오세영

Seyeong O

Moon-ok Lee

Nicholas Duvernay

ComicsLit NBM publishing

 

 

Poetry

2005

만인보1-10 시선

TOC

Ten Thousand Lives

고은
Ko Un

Brother Anthony,
Kim Young-Moo,

Gary Gach

Green Integer

 

 

Poetry

2005

님의 침묵

Everything Yearned For

만해 한용운
Manhae Han Yong-un

Francisca Cho

Wisdom Publications

 

 

Poetry

2005

20 women poets

Echoing Song

anthology

Peter Lee ed.

White Pine Press

 

 

Poetry

2005

꽃들은 별을 우러르며 산다

Flowers Long for Stars

오세영
Oh Sae-Young

Clare You,
Richard Silberg

Tamal Vista Publications

 

 

Poetry

2005

A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Sonjo

Chong Ch’ol

Kevin O’Rourke

Kegan Paul

 

 

Poetry

2005

A Love Song for the Earnest

신경림

Shin Kyungrim

Won-chung Kim

James Han

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Poetry

2005

Cracking the Shell:Three Korean Eco-poets

최승호, Seungho Choi

김지하, Chiha Kim

정현정, Hyonjong Chong

Won-chung Kim

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Poetry

2005

Sunrise over the East Sea

박희진

Park Hi-Jin

Chang Soo Ko

Julie Pickering

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Poetry

2005

River of Life, River of Hope

박두진

Park Tu-jin

Edward W. Poitras

EastBridge

 

 

Poetry

2005

Eternity Today

구상
Ku Sang

Brother Anthony

Seoul Selection (Seoul)

 

 

Poetry

2005

100 Love Poems from Old Korea

anthology

Kevin O'Rourke

Global Oriental

 

Poetry

2005

Virtual Reality

김영무
Kim Young-Moo

Brother Anthony
Lee Jong-Sook

답게 DapGae (Seoul)

 

 

Poetry

2005

The Depths of a Clam

김광규
Kim Kwang-kyu

Brother Anthony
Kim Young-Moo

White Pine Press

 

 

Poetry

2005

Even Birds Leave the World

황지우
Hwang Ji-Woo

Won-Chung Kim,
Christopher Merrill

White Pine Press

 

 

Drama

2005

, 토막, 당나귀

Three Plays by Chi-Jin Yoo

The Cow, The Mud Hut, The Donkey,

유치진
Yoo Chi-jin

Won-Jae Jang

Colin Smythe

 

 

Fiction

2004

당신들의 천국

Your Paradise

이청준
Yi Ch'ongjun

Jennifer Lee,

Timothy R. Tangherlini

Green Integer

 

 

Fiction

2004

남녘사람 북녁사람

Southerners, Northerners

이호철
Lee Ho-Chul

Andrew Killick,

Sukyeon Cho

EastBridge

 

 

Fiction

2004

위에 떠있는 도시

A Floating City on the Water

손장순
Jang-Soon Sohn

Jin-Young Choi

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Fiction

2004

김약국의 딸들

The Curse of Kim's Daughters

박경리
Park Kyong-ni

Choon-won Kang etc

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Fiction

2004

두겹의 노래

Twofold song

이문열

Yi Mun-yol

Kwŏn Kyŏng-mi

Hollym (bilingual, illustrated short story series)

 

 

Poetry

2004

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry

anthology

David McCann ed.

Columbia University Press

 

 

Poetry

2004

거미가 한말

What the Spider Said

고창수
Ko Chang-soo

Chang Soo Ko

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Poetry

2004

모과 옹두리에도 사연이 있다

Even the Kots on Quince Trees Tell Tales

구상
Ku Sang

Brother Anthony

답게 DapGae (Seoul)

 

 

Poetry

2004

Flowers in the Toilet Bowl

최승호
Choi Seung-ho

Won-Chung Kim,

James Han

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Poetry

2004

Drawing Lines

문덕수
Moon Dok-su

Chang Soo Ko

Julie Pickering

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Poetry

2004

I want to Hijack an Airplane

김승희
Kim Seung-hee

Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, Steffen F. Richards

Homa & Sekey (2004)

답게 DapGae (Seoul 2006)

Poetry

2004

Windflower

문정희
Mun Jeong-hui

Wolhee Choi,

Robert E. Hawks,

Wonsook Kim

Hawks Publishing

Drama

2004

The Ox

The Shack

Memorial Day

Korean Drama Under Japanese Occupation

유치진
채만식

Ch'i-jin Yu 

Man-sik Ch'ae

Jinhee Kim

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Fiction

2003

노을

Evening Glow

김원일
Kim Won-il

Agnita Tennant

Jain Publishing

 

 

Fiction

2003

Table of Contents

The Preview and Other Stories

조선작
Cho Sun-jak

Kim Young Chan,

David C. Carter

Jain Publishing

 

 

Poetry

2003

징비록

The Book of Corrections

유성룡
Yu Songnyon

Choi Byonghyon

Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley

 

Poetry

2003

하늘과 바람과 별과

 

Sky, Wind, and Stars

윤동주
Yun Dong-ju

Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, 

Steffen F. Richards

Jain Publishing

 

 

Songs

2003

Mu-ga: The Ritual Songs of Korean Mudangs

임석재
Im Sok-jae

Alan C. Heyman

Jain Publishing

 

Poetry

2003

Vision of a Phoenix

허난설헌
Hô Nansôrhôn

Yang Hi Choe-Wall

Cornell East Asia Series

Poetry

2003

Traveler Maps

고은
Ko Un

David McCann

Tamal Vista Publications

 

 

Poetry

2003

Korean poems written in Classical Chinese

Among the Flowering Reeds

anthology

Kim Jong-gil

White Pine Press

 

Fiction

2002

가면고

Reflections on a Mask

최인훈
Ch'oe In-hun

Steven More

Shi CP Moore

Homa & Sekey

Fiction

2002

영원한 제국

Everlasting Empire

이인화

Yi In-hwa

Yu Young-nan

EastBridge

Fiction

2002

농민

Farmers

이무영

Lee Mu-young

Yu Young-nan

Homa & Sekey

 

Fiction

2002

아버지와 아들

Father and Son

한승원
Han Sung-won

Yu Youngnan

Julie Pickering

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Fiction

2002

원미동 사람들

A Distant and Beautiful Place

양귀자
Yang Kwi-ja

Kim So-young
Julie Pickering

University of Hawai'i Press

 

 

Fiction

2002

Table of Contents

Shrapnel and Other Stories

이동하
Lee Dong-ha

Hyun-jae Yee Sallee

White Pine Press

 

 

Fiction

2002

장군의 수염
환각의 다리

The General's Beard,
Phantom Legs

이어령
Yi Oyoung

Brother Anthony

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Fiction

2002

Table of Contents

The Voice of the Governor General and Other Stories of Modern Korea

최인훈외
Choi In-Hoon etc

Chun Kyung Ja

EastBridge

Fiction

2002

Table of Contents

Unspoken Voices: Selected Short Stories by Korean Women Writers

최정희외
Choi Jong-hui etc

Jin-Young Choi

Homa & Sekey

 

 

Poetry

2002

The Book of Korean Shijo

최충/이규보외

Kevin O'Rourke

Harvard University Asia Center

 

 

Poetry

2002

The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry

anthology

Peter Lee etc.

Columbia University Press

 

 

Poetry

2002

Meditative Poems by Korean Monks

anthology

Jaihiun Kim

Jain Publishing

 

 

Poetry

2002

Brother Enemy

조지훈

Cho Ji-hun etc

Suh Ji-Moon

White Pine Press

Poetry

2002

Three Poets of Modern Korea

이상, 함동선, 최영미

Yi Sang, Ham Dong-seon, Choi Young-mi

Yu Jung-yul,

James Kimbrell

Sarabande Books

Fiction

2001

우리들의 일그러진 영웅

Our Twisted Hero

이문열

Lee Mun-yol

Kevin O’Rourke

Hyperion East

Poetry

2001

Variations: 3 Korean Poets

김수영, 신경님, 이시영

Kim Su-Young, Shin Kyong-Nim, Lee Si-Young

Brother Anthony

Kim Young-Moo

Cornell East Asia Series

Poetry

2001

Strong Winds at Mishi Pass

황동규

Hwang Dong-kyu

Kim Song-gon

Dennis Maloney

White Pine

 

In addition, the Korea Literature Translation Institute sponsored for a time the publication inside Korea of a series of books containing short works of fiction, some previously published elsewhere : The Portable Library of Korean Literature Short Fiction

 

Hollym Publishing also offer some Korean short stories in an illustrated, bilingual series

 

Online publications

 

Words Without Borders offered an Anthology of Korean works in its November 2005 issue. (Contents)

 

 

 

Additional resources

 

A discussion of the difficultiies encountered in publishing translations of Korean literature, that I prepared for a conference at Ewha University in 2006

 

A list of translated short stories published in a nunber of anthologies dating from earlier decades.

 

An index of translations published in Korean Literature Today 1996 – 2000.

 

There is a very full database of published translations in the KLTI homepage. (Go into the Virtual Library, Literary Works, English, and do an Advanced Search)

 

The Korea Journal archive enables you to compile lists of literary works published there, and usually to view the text too.

 

A brief, well-written survey of 20th-century Korean literature:

Twentieth-Century Korean Literature, by Yi Nam-ho, U Ch'angje, Yi Kwangho, Kim Mi Hyun. Translated by Ryu Youngju. EastBridge. 2005