Bruce Fulton
Bruce Fulton occupies the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation at the University of British Columbia, where he serves as a Professor in the Department of Asian Studies. He is the co-translator, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of numerous works of modern Korean fiction, most recently Togani by Gong Ji-young and Chinatown, four stories by Oh Jung-hee (Penguin Modern Classic); co-recipient, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of the first U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for a Korean literary work and the first residency at the Banff International Literature Translation Centre awarded for a translation from any Asian language; and editor of The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories.
A timely, heartfelt Korean American coming-of-age story — set in a high school reality...
Welcome to one of the tastiest coming-of-age books I have ever sampled. A Korean American girl in NYC is one of a dozen high schoolers selected from around the country to demonstrate their culinary skills on the first...
‘Victory in Shanghai’ details the fascinating history of a Korean American family
In the third week of September 1945, a team of 10 men representing every U.S. intelligence organization in China arrived in Japanese-occupied Shanghai to...
‘K-Drama School’ is an in-depth examination of Korean pop culture
Grace Jung is a force of nature: a fiction writer (The Moon Hangs Like a Stupid Mistake and Deli Ideology); literature translator (Sweet Potato,...
‘XOXO’ emphasizes companionship across continents
What would you do if you dropped in at a noraebang run by your father and uncle in LA’s Koreatown and ran into a...
Young adult novel brings to life the untold story of Korean War refugees with...
The Korean War (1950-53) is arguably the least-remembered of the wars involving the US, and in both academia and the popular imagination you may...
‘The Fox Maidens’ is an inspired take on the female cooptation of the male...
The Fox Maidens is an inspired take on one of the most subversive themes in East Asian folktales: that of the female cooptation of...
Mystery novel set in 1500s Korea is for young adults, but pulls no punches
The current decade has witnessed a renewed blossoming of literary works by Korean American and, increasingly, Korean Canadian writers. Prominent among the fiction...
English-language fiction memorializes the Sewŏlho ferry sinking tragedy
English-language fiction by ethnic Koreans is central to the literature of the Korean diaspora, which also includes significant bodies of literary work in Russian,...
A horrific study of clashing beliefs about marriage and parenthood on film
Have you ever viewed a film and thought to yourself early on, I know how this will end? I must confess to having made...
A compassionate film about a woman’s alienation
In present-day South Korea “aloners” constitute the country's so-called “1conomy” — restaurant, food-service, entertainment, and leisure enterprises geared to a population of singles who prefer...
