Redemption and Regret – Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale

Redemption and RegretModernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale\nAuthor(s): James Scarth Gale, Daniel Pieper\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487504342, 978-1487504342\nSynopsis\nRedemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished typescripts of James Scarth Gale, a Canadian missionary to Korea for four decades [tel]. During his time in Korea, Gale developed into the foremost Western scholar of Korean history, language, and literature, completing the first translation of Korean literature into a Western language, the first translation of English literature into Korean, and the first comprehensive Korean-English dictionary. In addition to these translations, the typescripts entitled Pen Pictures of Old Korea (ca. 1910) and Old Corea (ca. 1925), each presented here with introductory essays, contain Gales observations of various cultural artifacts, behaviours, and practices.\n\n Gale l.