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 White Book
The Orphan Master's Son
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
136 books — 514 voters

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
113 books — 126 voters
The Robot and the Weight of the Bed by Sanjugo NaokiThe Man-made Baby by Hirabayashi HatsunosukeAstro Boy, Vol. 1 by Osamu Tezukaドラえもん 1 [Doraemon 1] by Fujiko F. FujioStand-In Companion by Kazufumi Shiraishi
Japanese and Korean Robot Fiction
30 books — 1 voter

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
175 books — 33 voters
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn TanDescendant of the Crane by Joan HeThe Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie OhWicked Fox by Kat ChoThe Girl with No Reflection by Keshe Chow
YA East Asian Fantasy
176 books — 202 voters

Kang Chol-Hwan
“ In June 1949, the Koreans who previously had belonged to the Japanese Communist Party migrated en masse into the newly created Korean Workers’ Party, as the North Korean communist party was called. Like its counterparts all over the world, the KWP showed a formidable knack for creating associations with the allure of democracy and openness to the public. There were women’s associations, movements for the defence of culture and peace, sports clubs, and various other groups which the Party could i ...more ”
― Kang Chol-Hwan, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

“ Korean cool will no longer be Korean, nor will it be Cool as such. It will simply Be. ”
― Euny Hong, The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

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