Here, Anton Hur explores the exciting rise of the ‘Korean Wave’ in Books and culture. Why is Korean culture so hot right now? And why? My husband, who studies development, postulates that the success ...

Jung Ha-yun is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Best New American Voices, Translation ...

Follow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. South Korean novelist Han Kang, 53, the first ...

More than a million copies of books by Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have sold locally since the honour was announced, bookstores said Wednesday.

An exploration of the driving force of so-called “K-feminism” and the connection between art and politics in Korea ...

Award-winning translator Brother Anthony ponders Nobel Prize hype and the complexities of translating Korean poems and novels ...

Already popular through K-pop, the TV series "Squid Game" and the Oscar success "Parasite," South Korea's culture is once ...

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” The Swedish ...

Cultural exports were worth some $13.2 billion ... military government violently repressed a democratic uprising. Books of South Korean author Han Kang are on display after she was announced ...

South Korea courted investors for its content sector at the U-Knock forum that brought together producers, distributors and ...

Major South Korean bookstores sold out of author Han Kang's books Friday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of local publishers soared following her historic Nobel Prize win. The first ...

How did South Korea become such a global cultural powerhouse in the recent times? A staff member checks books by South Korean author Han Kang, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature ...