tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post1830652074708215042..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: The first science fiction story about Korea?matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-20647974070594937272013-04-17T09:28:39.065+09:002013-04-17T09:28:39.065+09:00Interesting as usual. I've always wondered ab...Interesting as usual. I've always wondered about Korean sci-fi, but never really thought about Korea in sci-fi. Thanks for the post.ResearcherNo1https://www.blogger.com/profile/03121717658684356722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-25690952780278735072013-04-12T12:16:31.664+09:002013-04-12T12:16:31.664+09:00Gord:
Completely forgot to add a link to your ser...Gord:<br /><br />Completely forgot to add a link to your series on SF in Korea, which I intended to do since I had you in mind when I wrote the post, obviously! I've amended the post, though the list you have on your site now is not the full list. When you reviewed that Korean SF omnibus film a few months ago, I remember the list being much longer...<br /><br />I hadn't known translations changed things so much, even to the point of inserting Korea into the story. Any idea when 20,000 leagues was translated into Korean?<br /><br />Anne:<br /><br />Yes, Aegukga was originally set to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, but that changed in 1948 - almost 20 years before Mulligan Come Home was published, so you'd think he'd be aware of that fact. I first became aware of the Auld Lang Syne connection watching Samuel Fuller's 'The Steel Helmet' (1950), the first film about the Korean War. In it a soldier starts playing Auld Lang Syne on an organ and the Korean orphan who's been tagging along begins to sing...matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-39589092185291331622013-04-10T15:42:05.566+09:002013-04-10T15:42:05.566+09:00Totally not important, but "Aegukga" was...Totally not important, but "Aegukga" was originally set to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, before An Eak-Tai composed the national anthem as is sung today. So he only got the kimchi part wrong. :)Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17336197265212776400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-74319477954844647442013-04-09T19:05:08.220+09:002013-04-09T19:05:08.220+09:00Matt,
Great post, for which I'll add a link ...Matt, <br /><br />Great post, for which I'll add a link in my series on SF in South Korea, but a caveat: "Mulligan, Come Home!" was probably the first original, English-language science fiction story involving Korea. <br /><br />The earliest translations of SF in Korea (as in China and I think Japan) worked more like Hollywood adaptations do today, with the translators actually changing the setting and character names, the cultural background, and so on. (So the earliest SF translation into Korea, which IIRC was Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, probably qualifies as the first SF story involving Korea in the Korean language.) Also, it depends how you define SF: London's <i>The Star Rover</i> predates "Mulligan Come Home" by quite some time, and by modern generic definitions it probably has as much right to be considered SF as a lot of other things that today are. (A clear example of which is Kim Stanley Robinson's <i>The Years of Rice and Salt</i>, reincarnation and all.)<br /><br />Korea has definitely turned up in more SF in English since then (besides a couple of my own stories, and Jim Munroe's transrealist <i>Angry Young Spaceman</i>, a book I rather disliked to be honest). David Brin has some kind of SF story about an experiment in intelligence boosting or something that I've heard about (but I don't read Brin, for reasons that constitute a rather long story). I've run across references here and there, though. <br /><br />But I haven't a list or anything. One Korean SF fan I know probably could produce a more exhaustive list, though he's probably too busy with other things. gordsellarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11465812613427778240noreply@blogger.com