Great poets from South Korea and France met each other in Seoul to work together for translating French poems into Korean language.

Korean poetry was often sung in performances during the 19th century until it was written in Hangul, the Korean traditional writing system, in the beginning of the 20th century. French poetry is determined by the number of syllables not by the number of beats and the poetic tradition in france started in the late 13th century.

According to the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea), South Korea and France had joined forced with the International Poem Center of Marseille and introduced the “Co-translation Atelier for Korean and French Poets.” More.

See: koreaportal

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