The Literature Translation Institute of Korea has been pretty pro-active in trying to get the word out re. Korean literature, and among their recent efforts is an online library of short Korean works that can be accessed for free -- here (but note that all the texts are in the dreaded pdf format).
In The Korea Times Charles Montgomery offers an overview of the project and titles, in Korean literature meets digital world, noting:
In The Korea Times Charles Montgomery offers an overview of the project and titles, in Korean literature meets digital world, noting:
These twenty works are the equivalent of a free collection of modern colonial fiction of Korea that can give an overseas reader a snapshot of the first "modern" Korean literature and its styles, themes and discontents.They're all fairly short, and certainly worth a look.