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Dear Seoul Art Museum, Holy spattered excreta on a steaming shingle! It is an Andy Warhol exhibit, a pretty big thing. You obviously spen...

Two bits of good news on the work front.. First, I will have a class at the beginning of the summer session. So that should add about 1k won...

It looks like I might get some editing work from Ewha University . The last job I did for them was apparently good by their standards, and t...

The editing came through tonight. I was thoroughly excited to get the email and see the two attachments. My feeling was like a jackrabbit in...

It all feels the same at this moment, 1:20 am in the land of the morning nightmare. The editing has gone away, at last. Gone away to my poor...

and you don't seem to have any problem with them. So why is the "plan" so antithetical to your nature.. I ask, because I have ...

This is barely news to expats, but the Times is making note of the reality in an article this morning Literary Professor Kim Joo-youn said K...

BPU2 have asked me to give a bit of a speech: 40 to 60 minutes. Somehow, this speech should relate to translation. Which is a bit odd as I ...

Booyeah! Call from the BPU2 and they want me to come up this Friday to something like their MT ("Membership Training" and, no, I c...

1) It’s a good thing because it will change things. Like every monkey (think Community College Trustees) I like shiny rocks. I also have th...

I'm not normally a big fan of bullets, but a couple of unrelated things: I have a nasty cold which syncs well with the crappy grey and ...

Some Notes about the Academic Silliness 1> Somewhere in the WayBack Machine I'm sure I mentioned that I've found new stories by ...

An interesting article at the Korea Times (which the OAF spotted this week) about a recent decline in translation quality. The article attri...

And then, suddenly, it all fell apart.... When I returned from my lovely vacation (pictures of which are to follow) I had a phone call from ...

Spent another long slog with the BKF this weekend. Friday night in a hotel where we worked from about 5:45 to 10:00 on a new piece that the ...

Which I am pleased to say is yet another "phrase not found on Google." And also a dim remembrance of some poem I writ back in the ...

I spend much of the day today with the BKF working on issues of translation. Although he had marked yesterday and today out for translation...

So me and the BKF are trying to translate some unread Korean classic into English... Well, sort of.. apparently it has first been translated...