Korea

Books set in Korea.

Pachinko
The Vegetarian
82년생 김지영
Human Acts
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Please Look After Mom
Crying in H Mart
The Island of Sea Women
If I Had Your Face
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Almond
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
The Orphan Master's Son
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
XOXO by Axie OhK-pop Confidential by Stephan  LeeWicked Fox by Kat ChoI'll Be the One by Lyla LeeOnce Upon a K-Prom by Kat Cho
Best K-pop & K-drama Books
84 books — 122 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
690 books — 242 voters

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa SeeJade Lady Burning by Martin LimónI Hear Your Voice by Young-ha KimMeeting Mr Kim  by Jennifer BarclaySkin Food by Type A
Books Set in South Korea
28 books — 13 voters


Christopher Hitchens
I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated the whole state belief system into a debased form of Confucianism, in which traditional ancestor worship and respect for order become blended with extreme nationalism and xenophobia. Near the southernmost city of Kaesong, captured by the North in 1951, I was taken to see the beautifully preserved to ...more
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