This Korean novel by the 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature turns a pet-sitting mission into a haunting reflection ...

Those who watch K-dramas know what a phenomenon Song Kang has become after My Demon. He has been the leading man in several ...

Although poems, self-help, and classics are a favourite on the bookshelf, time and again we feel like there should be ...

Over 400 Korean novelists, poets and illustrators issued a joint statement and individual statements calling for a verdict in the president’s prolonged impeachment trial ...

Writer Han Kang, the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, was among hundreds of South Korean authors calling for ...

Why read poetry? Why stand still and tune into poetry’s cadences in a madly spinning world? Because poetry, as the wise Irish ...

One of the most significant books of K.K. Kochu, the Dalit thinker and writer, who passed away last week, is his ...

SEOUL – Japanese translator Saito Mariko has won the Research and Translation category at the 76th Yomiuri Literary Awards for her Japanese translation of “We Do Not Part” by 2024 Nobel Prize in ...

In addition to Han Kang’s works, she has translated over 30 Korean literary works since 2014, including Cho Nam-joo’s “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982,” as well as works by Jung Se-rang ...

Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you feel like laughing.

Last year, South Korea made headlines around the world for two reasons. The first was writer Han Kang’s celebrated Nobel prize for literature win in October; the second was far less positive. Late in ...

Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. "FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY" thundered the front page of one British newspaper, condemning the "cascade of expletives".