Fractals of Longing: Exploring Identity and Connection in Han Kang’s Europa Writing novels has always had a special pull for Han Kang, as she reflected in her recent essay Light & Thread, delivered during her Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance … Continue reading Europa [Book Review]
Seated in the elegant surroundings of the Tate Britain restaurant, I overhear two friends catching up. One of them enthusiastically shows the other the results of her sleep app. She points to a graph and wonders where it indicates she … Continue reading Dallergut Dream Department Store [Book Review]
There are so many Korean translated literature titles currently available and its quite hard to keep up and also *ahem* control myself in bookstores. This year I will be writing and reviewing morebooks. I remember back in 2007, when I … Continue reading Testing my willpower [Cartoon]
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan The novel is a slow but moving story reflecting life and its philosophies. It centres around a 30-year-old woman named Yeongju. She has a good career and a … Continue reading Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop [Book review]
The Korean Cultural Centre in the UK have been hosting monthly book clubs since 2014. There are only 15 spaces and each month you put your name into a lucky draw to be picked at random. Due to the increase … Continue reading Getting picked for book club [Cartoon]
Diya on Korea 