Monday, April 25, 2011

Introduction

This is not my original work. This is a translation of excerpts of the novel "The Lives of Sungkyunkwan Confucian Scholars Volumes 1 & 2"  (성균관 유생들의 나날 1&2)  that had previously been posted by Yogurutu. Yogurutu had taken the time to translate the best parts of the novel into English. She had promised to translate the second novel, "The Days of Gyujanggak Gakshins (Government Officials), volumes 1 and 2"   (규장각 각신들의 나날) , as soon as she was able to find a copy of it. Unfortunately, her blog was taken down several months ago, and no one has heard from her since then.

I was able to download most of her translation from cached pages of her blog, and I found other parts of her translation on other websites scattered throughout the web. I managed to put it all together in its proper order to more or less give you the feel of the first novel.

Those of you who are looking for the racy parts of the novel, I've made them easier to find. The racy parts are in dark red ink so you don't have to read the entire posts just to find them.

We don't have a translation of the second novel, but I found some notations and comments from people who have read it, and I've included them at the end. Most of the notations are not my own words (except to correct the grammar or spelling, and a few minor comments of my own).

What I have attempted to do in this blog is to simply put it all the information of the two novels together so that you can enjoy as much of the original story as possible. The novels have been very popular in Asia ever since the drama aired. Let's hope that the publisher will decide to publish the books in English, but until then, I hope you'll enjoy this blog.

11 comments:

  1. thank you so much for keeping her work..i admire her work of translating the novel...looking forward to read more from this novel...thanks again..

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  2. Someone said in one of the forums, that Yogurutu was probably a graduate student, and in the face of intensive studying, she very possibly took down all her blogs, Facebook pages, etc., to avoid any more distractions.

    I keep hoping that she will eventually come back, and when she does, she can claim this blog from me, and I'll turn it over to her.

    In the meantime, I still wish someone else would offer to translate the rest of the novel, and if possible, the second novel as well.

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  3. I miss Yogurutu. I hope she comes back someday. Thank you so much, yoonhee, for compiling her translations in this blog.

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  4. Thank you so much for your efforts on the translations on these books. I am a huge fan and just like you I would like to be able to read them myself.

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  5. @Ta-Meaut, thank you for your compliment, but these are Yogurutu's translations, not mine. All I did was compile them after her blog was taken down. By the way, I've read some of your fanfiction, and they are great. Thank you for writing them.

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  6. A girl named Poema, from Indonesia, took my entire blog on the novel (Parts 1 through 32, "The Wedding Night" and "More about the Second Novel")and posted it on her blog without linking to this blog or giving credit to Yogurutu for the translations. I posted a comment on Poema's blog to let everyone know that she stole my blog, and that Yogurutu was the one who did the translations. I don't mind people copying anything from here, but please link to my blog, and give credit to Yogurutu. Please don't try to pass it off as your own work.

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  7. good day, I just finished watching sungkyunkwan scandal and Iam interested to read the novel version and happen to see your your blog thanks for uploading it and I'll start reading it later on. I am a little curious is there a difference in the novel and the tv adaptation drama?

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    1. Yes, there are many differences between the television drama and the novel. The historical events we saw in the drama are not contained in the novel. On the other hand, there are some sex scenes in the novel that were not shown in the drama.

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  8. Thank you for your effort, I really appreciate it :D

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  9. thank you so much~ I've been trying to find the translations of the novel for a long time since Yogurutu closed the blog.

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