austraLasia #3245
Seven volume series on Don
Bosco in Korean
SEOUL:
16 July 2013 --
It has been a three year labour of love by a former Salesian
and the
sister of a Salesian, but it means that the Korea Province is
the first
Province in the world to ensure that all seven volumes of Fr
Arthur
Lenti's monumental series on Don Bosco, 'History and Spirit',
are now
available to confreres in Korea in their own language.
With
the seventh and last volume in hand, Fr Stephen Nam,
Provincial in
Korea thanked the many people involved in translation and
publication
of the series, saying that now, local Salesians have a
magnificent and
abundant amount of material "to discover our origins and
return to Don
Bosco". He said he was sure that "this series is a great gift
for us in
preparing for the bicentenary, so let's suggest it and present
it to
people who want to know about and imitate Don Bosco".
Five of the series, including this final one, were translated
by Joseph
Kang, a former Salesian and now retired teacher of English
from
Incheon, where he taught at the Catholic Secondary school
there. "I am
really happy to have translated this wonderful work of Fr
Lenti's", he
said. "I have taken great pride in belonging to the Salesian
Family and
starting out from Don Bosco's spirit. The translator for the
other two
volumes, Mrs Teresa Lee, is a sister of
Fr Raphael Lee, parish priest
in Seoul. She has collaborated in translation tasks with the
Salesians
now for over twenty years.
Don Bosco Media, the Salesian Publishers in Seoul managed
under the
leadership of Bro Hilario Seo, has published 500 copies of
this final
volume. It is a hardcover edition, as
are four other of the volumes.
The first three were originally paperback editions but the
plan is to
give this work the quality that it its due and reprint the
first three
as hardcover editions as well. The full hardcover set is due
to be
published by January 31st 2014.
At 567 pages and at a special price of 17,500 Won (approx
15.16 USD) or
30% discount for Salesian family members, this is a good buy
for Korean
readers.
