Joe Choi stood inside Aladdin Fullerton bookstore, flipping through “Introduction to Business Management” in Korean. Choi, 33, has lived in the U.S. since he was a teenager, but he’s still more ...

On the one hand, she is desperate to make the trip, as it was “the dying wish left by my father for me to visit the homeland where my ancestors were buried.” And yet, she worries, “Why would [North] ...

SEOUL — You’d be hard pressed to find anyone here who had anticipated that Han Kang would be awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, the world’s highest literary honor. Although the South Korean ...

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 ...

SEOUL, South Korea – South Koreans woke up Friday to learn that local author Han Kang had won the Nobel Prize for literature — a breakthrough achievement that ignited an outburst of intense national ...

“What a great day for Korea!” my mom wrote to me on Thursday. “Nobel for Han Kang!” For the past few decades, several South Korean authors have been bruited about as contenders for the Nobel Prize in ...

“Are there no Korean novels like Buldak Ramen?” This was the question posed by an Anglo-American literary agent to a domestic copyright representative at the 77th Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter ...

LOS ANGELES & SEOUL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--K-Drama, K-Pop, K-Beauty – and now K-Comics – are fast becoming America’s latest Korean pop culture phenomenon. Tappytoon, a leading global Korean webtoon and web ...