SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The ripple effects of Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in Literature are being felt far beyond literary circles, reaching into the realm of popular music in South Korea. According to Melon, a major domestic music streaming platform, the song “How Can I Love the Heartbreak, You’re the One I Love” by [...]
MOSCOW, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Juhea, a 37-year-old Korean-American writer who recently won the foreign literature category of Russia’s esteemed Tolstoy Literature Prize (Yasnaya Polyana Award), believes that “the deep and passionate souls of Korean people are the strength of Korean literature.” In an interview with Yonhap News at a Moscow hotel on October [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Han Kang’s historic win of the Nobel Prize in literature marks a major breakthrough for Korean literature, which has been gaining international recognition in recent years. Even before the Nobel triumph, numerous Korean authors had garnered acclaim on the world stage through prestigious international literary awards. Korean writers have [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — With the Korean wave sweeping across the globe this year, South Korean literature has also gained worldwide attention. The Literature Translation Institute of Korea reported that some 180 Korean books were translated into 29 languages this year with the institute’s support, the most since the institute’s establishment in 1996. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 40 percent of South Koreans read works of literature such as poetry, novels and essays last year, with each person reading an average of two books. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism conducted a survey of 2,000 citizens over 15 years of age, which showed that the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – “Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982,” a revealing feminist novel, made a splash on the literary scene late last year, selling more than 1 million copies in South Korea, the country’s first million-seller novel since “Please Look After Mom” in 2009 by Shin Kyung-sook. The book by Cho Nam-joo debuted [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Rock and Blues legend Bob Dylan has shown that music is also worthy of literature’s highest honor, the Nobel Prize, and it is now attracting Korea’s nostalgic consumers, largely in their 40s and 50s, for a trip down memory lane. According to online bookstore Yes24, 294 copies of Dylan’s [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean literature attracted international attention with Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’ winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. And to add to the heightened interest, the Korea Foundation (KF), which operates under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is hosting what it calls a ‘Korean Literary Workshop for International Doctoral Program [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of novels in May spiked after Han Kang’s win of the Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian. Online bookstore Yes24 revealed Monday that May sales of novels increased by 58.6 percent from its average monthly sales until April this year. Domestic novels accounted for 46.9 percent [...]