SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Yonhap) -- Han Kang, this year's laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature, hopes her novel "Human Acts" will be an access road to understanding the May 18, 1980, pro-democracy ...

But the theater of the absurd that Kim underwent could have been surmised even prior to that — at least if you read the novel “Human Acts” (2014) by poet and writer Han Kang, aged 55.

The title of the exhibition "to where the flowers are blooming" is taken from chapter 6 of Han Kang's book "Human Acts" which has as its theme the pains of the Gwanju Democracy Movement. The narrative ...

Author Han Kang looks over displays at the Nobel Prize ... particularly those incurred by historical and societal events. Her book “Human Acts” (2014) directly deals with the last time ...

SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Yonhap) -- Han Kang, this year's Nobel Prize laureate ... who have mobilized in response. Han, author of "Human Acts," which is about the stories of survivors and victims of ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Korean author Han Kang’s haunting novel ‘We Do Not Part’ turns readers into memory-keepers of the 1948 Jeju massacre, lest we forget the wounds of history.

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korean author Han Kang, the Nobel Prize winner in ... "The White Book," "Human Acts," "We Do Not Part" and "Fruits of My Woman." As part of Nobel Week ...

“Two colors meet in Han Kang’s writing ... Referring to Han’s 2021 novel “We Do Not Part” and her 2014 work “Human Acts,” she said, “The snow creates a space where a meeting ...

If this is bleak territory, Han Kang also finds moments of true illumination — not in false hope, but in the persistence of ...

Han Kang's books are on display at the best seller section at the Kyobo Bookstore in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Dec. 22, 2024. [YONHAP] Fiction trumped self-help books in early January ...

How difficult is it for us to remain human, come what may?" Han emphasized the purpose behind her writing. "The work of reading and writing literature stands in opposition to all acts that destroy ...