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Literary Symposium Commemorating Writers' Centennial Anniversary
HISTORY
2008
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This business organizes the achievements accrued in the last hundred years by Korean modern literature, and in celebration of the hundred-year birthday of authors that have contributed bountifully to modern Korean literature, the business recollects and highlights these authors, as well as placing their achievements in history.
Starting in 2001 and continuing each year, writers born a hundred years prior have been commemorated in collaboration with the Association of Writers for National Literature, and in 2008 those writers included Kim Girim, Kim Jeonghan, Kim Youjeong, Paik Cheol, Yu Chihwan, Lee Muyeong, Yim Hwa, Shin Namcheol, and Choi Jaeseo to name a few. A symposium titled "The Inside and Out of the Modern Ages" and another subsidiary event titled "A Night of Literature" were held. The symposiums brought together members of the writers' families and the general public. The program sponsored a symposium for each author, and a chronological record and bibliography of studies were established and published along with the papers from the symposium.
2008
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These grants are designed to support institutions or individuals in foreign countries involved in the study of some aspect of Korean literature; grants are given to stimulate the study of Korean literature overseas and to spark interest in Korean culture and literature across the world, in addition to disseminating pertinent information and knowledge. Grants are given for the study, translation and publication of books about Korean literature; to provide support for academic conferences on Korean literature; to provide scholarships for students majoring in Korean literature; and for the acquisition of Korean literature.
In 2008, 24 applications were received, and priority was given to projects designed to promote Korean literature abroad. As a result, fourteen projects were approved, including six translation and publication projects including the Japanese translation and publication of the Literary World of Kim Girim, three translation projects including the Chinese translation of Sim Cheong 1,2 by Hwang Seokyeong and two other projects, one study project that studied "The Origin and Development of Modern Korean Poetry" written in Chinese, one scholarship project that studied "A Comparative Study of Korean and Chinese Literary Works Regarding the Manbosan Incident", and three other projects including funding given to Notre Dame University for the teaching of Korean literature and two other projects. Furthermore, six books including Landscape Korean Poetry were translated and published in Bulgarian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Urdu among other languages.