Walk into any bookstore right now and you may notice something — the displays are filled with enticing and mysterious novels ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Libraries in contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction are evolving into spaces where reading offers solace, connection, and ...
For many Korean children, the careful rolling of 'gimbap' (seaweed rice roll) or the aroma of sizzling kimchi pancakes isn’t ...
The Nobel Prize winning author is vigilant against the dangers of forgetting in a memorable, probing and exquisitely detailed ...
When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October last year, her books flew off the shelves, and South Korea’s ...
“I donated around 1,000 books to Oxford [University] about two years ago,” he says. Sogang University is where Brother Anthony spent more than two decades teaching after arriving in Korea in 198 ...