In the South Korean army, some writings of the American leftist Noam Chomsky are, literally, forbidden. Last week, South Korea’s constitutional court upheld a controversial ban on 23 books that ...

More than a thousand ancient Korean books of academic value in a U.S. university and a Japanese library are now available on the Internet as a South Korean university has recently begun an online ...

The historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump has put the so-called hermit kingdom back into the world's spotlight. For those clamouring to gain more ...

Today, I see Korean books on so many global publishers’ lists and their popularity continues to grow. But when I sold my first Korean book in 2005, little did I know that this was the beginning of new ...

In honor of the Winter Olympics taking place now in Pyeongchang, I visited Koreatown’s bookstores. (Don’t miss our Koreatown guide). With new, used and specialty shops stocking comic books and manga, ...

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 ...

A new book and exhibition trace the remarkable lives of Park Seo-Bo, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Lee Ufan, and Kim Whanki. Inside a vitrine in "The Making of Modern Korean Art: The Letters of Kim Tschang-Yeul, ...

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s “Human Acts” (2014) was Korea’s best-selling book for the second year in a row, the country’s largest bookstores said Monday.

Sales of Korean literature abroad more than doubled in 2024, driven by a wave of international enthusiasm and a historic Nobel Prize win by Han Kang, according to new data released by the Literature ...

One year after Han Kang became Korea’s first Nobel laureate in literature, Korean fiction is finally taking its place alongside K-pop, K-drama and K-film in the landscape of K-culture. Once viewed as ...

The Korean War began 70 years ago. In the United States, it is known as the “forgotten war”. Not so in China. In his new book Attack at Chosin, Professor Xiaobing Li, a prolific historian who teaches ...

“I’ve never been so cold in all my life,” Billy Graham proclaimed to a crowd of 1.1 million in Seoul in 1973. During those dark days of South Korean military dictatorship, Graham began his sermon by ...