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Korean literature is an overdetermined signifier that incorporates multiple states, languages, and communal experiences based on the assumption of a shared ethnicity. As a national literature, its singularity is disrupted by the historically contingent discursive practices of literary formation, an inherently comparative process that is exacerbated in the Korean case by a multilingual past and the existence of two states known to the world as “Korea.” This essay argues that the current conception of Korean literature is a specifically South Korean construction as a component of the national globalization drive (segyehwa) that began as a predominantly economic project in the 1990s, but took hold as a cultural project in the 2000s. I examine a series of literary events from 2000-2012 organized by the Korean Literature Translation Institute (KLTI), a government agency, and the Daesan Foundation, a private cultural institution that brought local and foreign authors, scholars, and representatives from the publishing industry and local governments with the goal of globalizing Korean literature. These conversations reveal the mechanisms that prioritized literature as a desirable marker of cultural capital and its stakes for South Korea’s claim on Korean culture on the world stage. I show how South Korea’s targeted approach to the contested category of world literature through its own newly developed cultural institutions exposed the fundamental hierarchy of cultural capital based on developmental status that determines inclusion/exclusion in world literature.

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Abstract
From Korean Literature to K-Literature
Cultural Currency: the KLTI International Workshops
Civilizational/Cultural Difference at the Daesan Seoul International Forums for Literature
One Korean Literature for Multiple Koreas
Other “Korean” Literatures
Movements for Literary Translation Around the World
World Literature: Longing and Belonging
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• JENNY WANG MEDINA [ Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, with an appointment in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University to begin in 2019. ]

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