Visitors to Koryo Books stroll about in no rush. They browse through the “Boy Group” music collection, flip through Korean language books, and scan the back of the store for souvenirs representing ...

K-dramas to K-pop have placed South Korea at the center of the media universe. Are K-books about to join them? Most prominently, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man Booker International ...

Students in last semester’s “North Korea and Religion” course studied eleven memoirs written by North Korean defectors. Then, on the final day of class in December, they heard directly from one. The ...

In “Greek Lessons,” Han Kang’s latest novel to be translated into English, a young Korean mother is suddenly unable to speak. By Idra Novey When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...