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
The White Book
Korean Grammar in Use - Beginning by Ahn Jean-myungTalk To Me In Korean - Level 1 by TalkToMeInKorean2000 Essential Korean Words for Beginners by Seol-hee AhnKorean Made Easy for Beginners by Seung-eun OhBasic Korean by Andrew Sangpil Byon
Best Books for Learning Korean
33 books — 8 voters
The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. BorosonA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićGulab by Rohith S. KatbamnaThe Girl with No Face by M.H. BorosonA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Asian Protagonist
177 books — 40 voters

XOXO by Axie OhI'll Be the One by Lyla LeeK-pop Confidential by Stephan  LeeASAP by Axie OhShine by Jessica  Jung
K-Pop & K-Dramas in YA Fiction
60 books — 52 voters
Thai Food by David ThompsonMaangchi's Real Korean Cooking by MaangchiLand of Plenty by Fuchsia DunlopJapanese Cooking by Shizuo TsujiThai Street Food by David Thompson
Best Asian Cookbooks
173 books — 32 voters

Atomic Secrets by Janet AsbridgeDelivery Man by Rory LavertyAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Damned Balkans by John Farebrother
20th & 21st Century War Reads
134 books — 39 voters
Nothing to Envy by Barbara DemickEscape from Camp 14 by Blaine HardenThe Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-HwanThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam  JohnsonThe Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
Books on North Korea
134 books — 513 voters

Christopher Hitchens
Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a totally isolated and hermetic society, northern Korea in the years after the 1953 'armistice' would have been the place to start. It was bounded on two sides by the sea, and to the south by the impregnable and uncrossable DMZ, which divided it from South Korea. Its northern frontier consisted of a long stretch of China and a short stretch of Siberia; in other words ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Kang Chol-Hwan
I have since learned that at other latitudes and at other times, the same Communist powers created similar traps for making people believe and hope in illusions. This led to the misery of countless peoples: in France, in America, in Egypt, and perhaps most notably, in Armenia. Tens of thousands died there in 1947 under the spell of Stalin’s propaganda, which had painted the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia as the land of milk and honey. The Soviets… promised that the ancestral culture and re ...more
Kang Chol-Hwan, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

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