Korean literature abroad

       In The Korea Herald Claire Lee reports that KLTI to select 15 authors for global launch, as:

The Korea Literature Translate Institute announced on Tuesday they will select 15 local writers and support them with publishing their works overseas.

The 300 million-won ($257,000) project consists of translating excerpts from the selected writer's works of fiction and sending them to literary agencies in foreign countries, especially the U.S. The institute is to announce the selected writers by the end of this year.

       The six-member committee that will select the writers "consists of literary critics, scholars and publishers"; it'll be interesting to see who they come up with.
       Also of interest:

The institute also announced that they'll support translation of Korea's genre function, including crime, SF and mystery. Kim said American publisher AmazonCrossing is particularly interested in Korea's genre fiction.

       Good for AmazonCrossing -- way too little genre fiction is available in translation, especially from Korea, and I'd love to see some of this stuff.