Walk into any bookstore right now and you may notice something — the displays are filled with enticing and mysterious novels ...

Unlike the paragon of happiness and fulfilling K-dramas, or the witty cinematics of K-movies, literature in Korea explores a ...

Korean literature has been increasing its presence in the global market since its potential was first recognized in 2010. Since then, numerous Korean writers have won prestigious global literary ...

For many Korean children, the careful rolling of 'gimbap' (seaweed rice roll) or the aroma of sizzling kimchi pancakes isn’t ...

"Some books help us to travel inside of ourselves," she said. "To make sense of so many emotions … or relate to certain things that people [are] going through." The rise of Korean literature ...

A wave of Korean literature is set to reach English-language ... Her 2021 work We Do Not Part is slated for a January 20 release by Penguin Books. The novel, co-translated by E.

Libraries in contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction are evolving into spaces where reading offers solace, connection, and ...

Luckily, there are books. And a trending genre called "healing fiction" might just get you through. Better still: It's about cats, coffee and bookstores. Also called cozy fiction or cat fiction, and ...

A wave of Korean literature is set to reach English-language ... 20 release by Penguin Books. The novel, co-translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, explores the Jeju April 3 Massacre ...

When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October last year, her books flew off the shelves, and South Korea’s ...

The book sold more than 100,000 in the U.S. Another ... hope that it would bring more global attention to South Korean literature. But it remains to be seen whether Han’s stories would become ...