KBS’s upcoming sitcom “Villains Everywhere” has released new stills of Choi Ye Na, Han Sung Min, Jung Min Gyu, TEMPEST’s ...

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...

The prize was awarded for Han Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”: a description that applies equally to this newly ...

MOST VISITORS to Jeju island arrive by plane. The sea foams as you descend onto the runway, close to the black basalt coast. More than 13m people come to this island, south of South Korea’s ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. There’s a new novel out by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. We Do Not Part (Penguin), translated by e.

In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them, but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three ...

When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October last year, her books flew off the shelves, and South Korea’s publishing industry saw a rare surge. But within a month, the momentum had ...

Though Han Kang’s previous novels have nothing to do with her latest, familiarity with her work makes the reader sensitive to the author’s sensibilities. When she was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

By Megan Walsh When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature late last year – for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”– it was ...

The second feature from Kang Mi-ja — and her first after a gap ... The image is soon consumed by harrowing close-ups of a stranger, Yeong-gyeong (Han Ye-ri), at the aforementioned event.