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Kim Hyun Sook


Born
Changwon, Korea, Republic of
Genre
Comics


Kim Hyun Sook was born in Changwon, South Korea. She became a member of a banned book club in the 1980s while studying English Language and Literature. She has co-written comics for websites including The Nib and Oh Joy Sex Toy and she translated Lady Rainicorn's dialogue for Adventure Time comics. She now runs a new banned book club in Busan, where she lives with her husband and her cat, Dog Baby. ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 6,736 ratings · 1,256 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
Banned Book Club
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3.98 avg rating — 6,151 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions
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3.90 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions
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“I'm here to learn, same as you. I just want to learn more than what they want us to know.”
― Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
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“But you can learn a lot about history by figuring out what people wanted to hide.”
― Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
tags: history
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“Funny how if you were reading his dystopian sci-fi novel with a minor subplot about fascists ruling Korea, you'd be taken to jail. So you gotta wonder. Do they ban books because they see danger in their authors, or because they see themselves in their villains?”
― Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
tags: book-banning
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