From the 1948, North and South Korea had been a reflection of the bipolar world view generated by the Second...
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Born in South Korea, raised in America, educated in England and equally comfortable speaking Korean or English, novelist Krys Lee...
The first international symposium where East Asian and Western European researchers held discussions in Japanese took place at Korea University...
The Vietnam War is the dark shadow of Korean economic development. Just as Japan’s post–World War II economic success owes...
The South Korean novelist on her visits to death row, exposing sex offenders, and the dread march of materialism: The...
The extraordinary life of Xu Sanguan, a famous Chinese fictional character who sells his blood over the years to support his family, will soon be adapted in South Korea as a blood merchant. South Korea's popular actor Ha Jung-woo recently started directing and starring in a film adaptation of a renowned Chinese author Yu Hua's 1995 novel "Xu Sanguan Mai Xue Ji" or" Chronicle of a Blood Merchant". (more…)
Jeff Kingston bumps into Lee in a subway station and starts a conversation with her: LARB I recently caught up...
Among several plans to promote literature, South Korea hopes to send children’s books to the North as part of Incheon’s...
Hwang’s story belongs on a bookshelf somewhere between the Charlotte’s Web and Animal Farm, says Dmitri Nasrallah in The Toronto...
Publishing isn’t like this in the west. Imagine a town where every single building is related to the books business;...
