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 ...

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 ...

South Korean author Han Kang, the country’s first Nobel laureate in literature, has emerged as the country’s most commercially successful writer of the past dec ...

A warm, cosy, quietly inspiring novel about a woman, Yeongju, who walks away from burnout, routine and an unhappy marriage to open a small bookshop in Seoul’s Hyunam-dong neighbourhood. As she ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mike Chinoy is a non-resident senior fellow at the University of Southern California’s US-China Institute and a former Beijing bureau chief and senior Asia correspondent for CNN. His ...

Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novels top Korea’s bestseller rankings for the past decade, even as the country’s reading rates hit historic lows, according to new ...

When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 2024, Bahrisons bookstore in Khan Market, Delhi, ran out of her books within days. They had to restock every title. Mithilesh Singh, the ...

On the 19th, Kyobo Bookstore compiled the cumulative bestseller rankings for the last ten years (from April 17, 2016, to April 16, 2026, combining both online and ...

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 ...