SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Renowned South Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong has been longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, one of the three largest literary awards in the world. Hwang was among the 13 finalists for the British prize, announced by the organizer on its official website on Wednesday. He is the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung Hwa said regarding author Han Kang’s New York Times essay titled ‘While the US Talks of War, South Korea Shudders’ that “as a writer she is entitled to her own opinion, but her understanding of history and the way she described it is [...]
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 [...]