Walk into any bookstore right now and you may notice something — the displays are filled with enticing and mysterious novels ...

We Do Not Part by South Korean writer Han Kang asks difficult questions about the troubled history of her nation.

Now, a growing collection of English picture books is bringing these culinary traditions to life, inviting a broader group of young readers worldwide to explore the magic of Korean cuisine through ...

Albert D. Biderman—Macmillan($5.95). Americans indulged in some profound breast beating when they heard that G.I. prisoners in Korea had been brainwashed into collaborating on a massive scale ...

Libraries in contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction are evolving into spaces where reading offers solace, connection, and ...

When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October last year, her books flew off the shelves, and South Korea’s ...

Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one solely of deprivation and hardship.

Han Kang in 2016. Ms. Han, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, has written books about two of South Korea’s darkest moments.Credit...Jean Chung for The New York Times Han Kang ...

Before Lee Chang-dong directed his critically acclaimed films, he published short stories and novellas, which are now ...