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Korean literature is the body of literature produced by Koreans, mostly in the Korean language and sometimes in Classical Chinese. For much of Korea's 1,500 years of literary history, it was written in Hanja .
Also referred as 'pure literature' in South Korea. Most authors translated by the Korea Literature Translation Institute for translation falls into this category. The terminology is often criticized, and is a constant theme of discussion in the literature of South Korea. Some of the notable [according to whom?] Korean mainstream fiction writers ...
Hong Gildong jeon (Korean: 홍길동전) is a Korean novel, often translated as The Biography of Hong Gildong, written during the Joseon period. The novel is considered an iconic piece of Korean literature and culture. Hong Gildong, an illegitimate son of a nobleman and his lowborn concubine, is the main character of the story. Gifted with ...
Jo Dong-il argues that classic Korean novels stemmed from four different types of folktales: life and spirit (myeonghon) tales (about a man falling in love with a dead woman), dream (mongyu) tales (about what happened in a dream), unrecorded (ilsa) tales (about an extremely talented person who does not accomplish anything notable and ends up disappearing without a trace), and heroic (yeongung ...
Toji (Korean: 토지), known in English as Land, is a 16-volume Korean novel written by Park Kyong-ni from 1969 to 1994. It tells the story of five generations of a wealthy Korean family from South Gyeongsang Province. The novel was very popular in South Korea, where it was made into a television series.
Geumo sinhwa is a representative jeongi fiction, and the grammar of the genre that was perfected in this work continued to influence later Korean literature, including Sin Gwang-han’s short story collection Gijaegiyi (Strange Stories of Gijae) from the 16th century, as well as 17th-century jeongi novels such as Jusaeng-jeon (Tale of Ju ...
Rain Shower", also "Shower" or "Sonagi" (소나기), is a Korean short story written by Korean writer Hwang Sun-won in 1952. A sonagi is a brief but heavy rain shower that starts suddenly, usually on a hot afternoon. In Hwang’s story, the rain shower symbolizes the short but heart-rending love between the boy and the girl.
Korean literature is the literature of Korea, which begins in the Three Kingdoms period and continues in the present-day literature of North and South Korea Wikimedia Commons has media related to Literature of Korea .