[New-Poetry] WorldPo: Korea

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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2008/05/244_23684.html
Korea Times online 
05-05-2008 19:26???? 
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Traditional Korean Poetry Has Rich History? 


By Choi Yearn-hong 

Not many people in this modern age read much poetry. Koreans, however, are an exception. Each year South Korea publishes more than 200 good poetry books, which on average sell 1,000 to 2,000 copies each.


These numbers have declined since the 1970s, when a couple of Korean poets sold more than one million copies of their poetry books. Still, the market for poetry in South Korea today is the envy of American poets, who along with their European counterparts cannot expect such widespread readership.


Korean poetry also has a rich history. In my opinion, the best collection of classical Korean verse in translation is ``The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry'' edited by Peter Lee, and published by Columbia University Press.


>From this book, we can find a significant relationship between the past and present of the Korean poetry.
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