But Kang, at 53, has accumulated an impressive collection of awards and is celebrated in South Korea, with the drama surrounding her work being labeled the “Han Kang Syndrome.” It is easy to ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang was introduced to most English readers ... Gwangju Uprising and the Jeju Massacre was not permitted until after South Korea democratized in 1987. Kang’s desire to write ...

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang ... process and Korea’s hidden past. Kyungha arrives in Jeju with ghosts of her own. She wrote a book about state violence, just as Kang did in 2014 with “Human ...

Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee.

Han Kang's new book "We Do Not Part" is out now ... one family from the massacre on Jeju Island off the coast of South Korea, whose waves of brutal killings began in 1948. In the name of stopping ...

One of the most famous winners of the Miss Ukraine beauty pageant, who won the title in 2001 and represented our country at Miss World, Oleksandra Nikolaienko, was spotted at the inauguration of the ...

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 ...

Based on a popular webtoon, “Friendly Rivalry” is a mystery thriller set at Chaehwa Girls’ High School, an elite institution for the top 1 percent in South Korea, where cutthroat academic ...

Let’s start with the photographer himself. A self-portrait, which, like the rest of Han Youngsoo’s work, is in black-and-white—not a nostalgic choice, just the technology of the times.

In Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part,” newly ... a fictionalization of the 1980 Gwangju massacre, in which South Korea’s military dictator, Chun Doo-hwan, set the army upon protesters ...

WE DO NOT PART, by Han Kang; translated by E ... an idyllic subtropical island off the coast of South Korea, at least 30,000 people were killed in mostly government-perpetrated atrocities ...