Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an accident in Seoul, asks her friend Kyungha to travel to her home on ...

Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee.

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is blood, but it’s the current of life,” she said. Han Kang in 2016.

Han Kang's new book "We Do Not Part" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Paik Duhim; book cover courtesy Penguin Random House/Hogarth) Last year, novelist Han Kang became the first Korean writer to ...

Chen De being upgraded at CSBC shipyard earlier this month. Picture courtesy of 臺灣賞船人Taiwan Ships Watchers https://www.facebook.com/TaiwanShipsWatchers ...

In Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part,” newly translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the narrator visits a friend who is in the hospital after severing the tips of ...

WE DO NOT PART, by Han Kang; translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. “We Do Not Part” takes on the lasting devastation of the violent suppression of the Jeju uprising of 1948 and 1949 ...

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