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Harry Potter Korean Split-Volume Paperback #1A

해리 포터와 마법사의 돌 1

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Korean edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (vol. 1). In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

243 pages, Staple Bound

First published January 1, 1997

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J.K. Rowling

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Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.

Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.

Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.

Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.

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October 12, 2018
I personally read the original version first, but the Korean-translated version doesn't do the original justice. Many of the witty comments that J.K Rowling made in the english version is not well crafted in the translation and furthermore, many of them were omitted or altered so that it made more "sense", by killing the sarcasm of the original. I supposed some of them were sacrificed for the smoothness of the translation but overall, it's somewhat disappointing- I've seen people claim they love Harry Potter merely by reading the translation but if they judged Rowling's quality of writing through THIS, then well, they are missing out on a lot.
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94 reviews2 followers
April 23, 2023
Wow. This was a very difficult read, taking me 9 months to finish. Mostly, I found it frustrating to read so slowly, as my
Korean reading ability is still lacking. It was great to know the story so well, especially when I didn’t quite understand the vocabulary. But sometimes, knowing the story made me frustrated at the slow speed, wanting to move ahead to the parts I love most.

Towards the end of the book, my reading speed and flow had improved significantly, and the reading experience was much better! Excited to burn through the second half :)
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July 11, 2021
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9 reviews
August 3, 2025
I love the Harry Potter series, and the first book was the one that drew me into this world of fantasy.
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April 27, 2016
Lost a star because of errors in the translation.
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77 reviews
January 1, 2021
I'm not fluent in Korean and can't speak to the quality of translation, but I appreciated the in-text explanations of British terms. As an American, British concepts sometimes are a mystery to me, but since it's still English there's no explanation provided in the American versions of the books. In this Korean version there are explanations for British concepts in parentheses after the term.

Of course some of the British jokes don't translate as well to Korean, but I still enjoyed this version quite a lot. I read it with my English copy side by side to compare.
5 reviews
September 6, 2025
As an American, British concepts sometimes are a mystery to me, but since it's still English there's no explanation provided in the American versions of the books. In this Korean version there are explanations for British concepts in parentheses after the term.

Of course some of the British jokes don't translate as well to Korean, but I still enjoyed this version quite a lot. I read it with my English copy side by side to compare.
13 reviews
January 5, 2025
The details in this books was awesome. I love the characters in here and I really enjoyed having the introduction and how they showed the list of what was needed for Hogwarts made me feel like I was going to attend as well
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July 9, 2020
덴마크와 영국판 읽던 내 제일 좋아하는 소설이는... 드디어 한국판도 마쳤네 ㅠㅠ
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March 17, 2025
can't log the chinese version, oh well
3 reviews
March 25, 2025
I really liked this book because of all the interesting things that happened. I also loved the magic topics and it was very entertaining.
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April 27, 2025
I read Percy Jackson before this. (PJO was 5 stars btw.) Maybe I was disappointed, maybe it was just confusing- as I am American and not British. This just wasn't my cup of tea.
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4 reviews
June 29, 2025

Loved it one of my favorite from the series and I know this doesn’t Cora late to the book but loved the movie too
1 review
September 26, 2025
idk I don't speak this language
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August 5, 2024
When I made this account it made me rate like 20 books I’d read and it won’t let me take this off my shelf. I don’t speak this language so no, I didn’t read it.
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104 reviews2 followers
January 2, 2025
Začal podzim a já mám podzim a zimu spojené s Harry Potterem. Každý rok touto dobou si dopřávávám návrat do Bradavic.
A každý rok je to jako poprvé.

Harry zjišťuje o své minulosti a co se stalo jeho rodičům. Líbí se mi že i když zjistí že ve světě kouzelníků je slavný, tak stále zůstává ten skromný roztomilí chlapec. Líbí se mi, jak je Hermiona přechytralá, zásadová a na všechno zná odpověď ale i tak ti dokáže pomoct při zkouškách. Líbí se mi Ron, to jaký je trouba ale zároveň úžasný přítel, kterého chcete mít po svém boku. Všichni tři se krásné doplňuji. A tvoří nejlepší přátele.

První díl je spíše pro mladší čtenáře. Ale i starší generace příběh bude milovat.

Já jsem na příbězích Harryho Pottera vyrůstala. A už se nemůžu dočkat, jak budu knihu číst svému synovi.

„Nechápu, jak se ty mudlové vobejdou bez kouzel!”
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9 reviews
January 1, 2021
Having read this in English when I was younger, I was looking forward to reading it in Korean. I think I will read the next book in the new 20th anniversary edition that have been newly translated, as much of the dialogue and descriptions felt very disconnected in this original translation. Characters like Ron and Snape who's whole dialogue revolves around sarcasm and wit suffer especially. Despite this, I still enjoyed reading this book again!

어렸을 때부터 원서를 몇 번 읽어 왔으니 번역본이 기대되었어요. 비밀의 방도 한국어로 읽게 되면 20주년 신번역 버즌을 선택할 거예요. 이 구번역 버즌은 캐릭터 묘사와 대화에 문제가 있다고 느끼기 때문이에요. 특히 스네이프와 론의 특유 비꼬거나 빈정대는 말투가 누락된 것이 아쉬웠다. 그래도 즐겁게 읽었어요!
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172 reviews1 follower
August 14, 2016
So I have decided to re read the Harry Potter series again as I haven't done it in 5 years or so.
Delving back into the world full of magic and wonder has been a read pleasure. I so love these books.
I am ready to continue with the next book now, for as we all know they only get better.
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May 30, 2016
Rated with regard to the others in the series. Actual rating as a novel would be ****. This book ranks 5th out of 7.
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32 reviews
July 26, 2025
This book is a bit nostalgic cuz is where it all happed, and everything but I find it kind of boring the characters are wayy to simple, but still love themm
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