Sora Kim Russell and Youngjae J Bae translate from the Korean into English. Their co-translation of Hwang Sok-yong’s Mater 2-10 is shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.

The Road to Sampo Korea’s greatest living writer, Hwang Sok-yong, published his much-loved story ‘The Road to Sampo’ in 1973. It is only one of his literary works to evoke the hard lives of the ...

Composed by then-student Kim Jong-ryul and written by novelist Hwang Sok-yong in the early 1980s, the song has been used to commemorate the students and young activists who were killed in the pro ...