For All Ye Korean Folk

[akujunkan]

On Ye Olde Flist.

Here I am in Seoul. I have a relatively unlimited amount of time here (don't have to leave the country until the 26th). Can anyone point me in the direction of bookstores selling manhwa (either original Korean or translations of Japanese manga). I am going to pick some up and practice reading with it.

And, even more of a long shot, but anyone know of any good Korean language authors?

That will be all.

Comments

[fragilistikal.livejournal.com]

Well if you find a fun Korean novelist, do me a favor and give me a heads up. I've been having crap luck finding a balance between light-hearted and mature. (Some of it is like the worst fanfic ever...but in Korean, with little smilies ^_^;; inserted into the text. o.0 Mo-ya, iige?!)

I'm so frustrated by the official Korean romanization system. It's so...ugly. And un-intuitive, and doesn't convey the true sound at all and.... AKA, Spring hasn't been arsed to really learn it. You could probably come up with something better.

Hope everything's going great with your travels, and that you're meeting cute Asian boys!

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Okay, I gave up on the novelist search after I'd shipped $40 worth of manhwa back home and still had another box of textbooks and such to go. (Also, being drunk does not increase one's chances of remember the names of recommended authors. 'Park' someone just ain't gonna cut it.)

Re: romanization. I refuse to navigate by it, because it will get me and cab drivers and nice helpful people on the street horridly, horridly confused. Because it doesn't sound or look like ANYTHING. I thought it would have been tough to do worse than Wade-Giles or M-R, but there you have it. Guess every language has to have one.