South Korean novelist Han Kang was introduced to most English readers by her 2007 book, “The Vegetarian” (published in ...

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is ...

Based on real-life events, the Nobel laureate's fifth novel highlights the generational trauma that flows through one family ...

“We Do Not Part” explores Korea’s buried past and the agony of silence.

SIMON: Difficult questions about humans. Han Kang, the Nobel Prize winner. Her new novel, "We Do Not Part," now in English, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. Thank you so much for being ...

SIMON: We become aware, as the story goes on, that at the heart of it is a massacre that occurred in 1948 - the Jeju Island Massacre. Can you tell us about that? HAN: So there was the liberation ...

Inseon has moved from Seoul to the volcanic island of Jeju to care for her dying mother, who herself was traumatized by a government-backed massacre that left 30,000 dead. After her mother dies ...

In a 2024 speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, South Korean author Han Kang confessed that “I had long lost a sense of deep-rooted trust in humans.” She wondered: “How then could ...