Asian Review of Books / September 30, 2017

As contemporary Korean literature receives increasing acclaim in English-language circles—Han Kang’s The Vegetarian won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize—it is perhaps inevitable that efforts are being made to introduce older Korean classics to the English language mainstream. One of of these is Sweet Potato, a newly-translated volume of short stories by Kim Tongin (or Kim Dong-in) written mostly in the Japanese colonial period between the Wars.“Kim Tongin’s literary achievements had important literary historical significance, leading to the establishment of modern Korean fiction and its rapid popularization,” writes Youngmin Kwon in the introduction. Kim’s place in Korean literary history is perhaps a matter for scholars; not being one, I can only come to this collection more or less as a general reader would.

Lawrence Public Library / September 30, 2016

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Neue Buecher Zeitung / September 29, 2016

Source: http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/aktuell/gespraech-mit-der-booker-preis-traegerin-han-kang-unschuld-gibt-es-nicht-ld.119232

조선일보 / September 28, 2006

“한국 문학의 폭력성에 큰 충격을 받았다.” 해마다 노벨 문학상 후보로 거론되는 프랑스의 소설가 장 마리 르 클레지오는 한국의 대표적 작가들을 만난 자리에서 “농촌이 급격히 도시화되면서 빠르게 변한 한국 사회가 몇몇 한국 문학 작품 속에서 거친 언어, 거친 주제로 표출되어 있다”면서 “한국 영화에도, 사진에도 이미지에도 자주 나타나는 그 폭력성을 잘 이해하기 힘들다”고 털어놓았다.

SVT Nyheter / September 27, 2019

Den förra presidenten i Sydkorea, Park Guen-hye, hade en svart lista med över 9000 kulturarbetare som hon såg som meningsmotståndare. Sedan hon avsattes 2017 råder ett öppnare offentligt samtal i landet. – Författare i Sydkorea söker en ny riktning, säger Sverigeaktuella Han Kang.

Ystads Allehanda / September 27, 2019

Med en skör och stark berättelse gästar Han Kang Bokmässan i Göteborg. Internationellt är hon den sydkoreanska temasatsningens mest uppburna namn. "Den vita boken" är samtidigt det mest personliga som hon har skrivit. Kan svenskans "vit" förstås i betydelsen ras undrar hon lite oroligt. Frågan känns absurd för den som läst hennes bok, och det svenska förlagets formgivare har också jobbat hårt för att titeln inte på något sätt ska kunna ge fel signaler.

myRepublica / September 27, 2019

The Vegetarian, a novel written by South Korean writer Han Kang, was published in 2007. Its English translation, however, was made available only in 2015, following which it has managed to make a big global impact. The novel is actually based on a short story Kang had written back in 1997 called ‘The Fruit of My Woman’. The novel follows the story of a part-time graphic artist and homemaker Yeong-hye whose life takes a drastic and dramatic turn after a nightmare results in her becoming a vegetarian.

Il Mattino / September 27, 2017

Il Malaparte 2017 ad Han Kang, il premio caprese continua a parlare al femminile, dopo Elizabeth Strout quest'anno è la volte della scrittrice coreana, che sarà in Italia a fine settembre per ritirare l'ambito riconoscimento.

Blogo / September 27, 2016

Source: http://www.booksblog.it/post/139622/la-vegetariana-di-han-kang

The Guardian / September 26, 2021

Kwon Yeo-Sun brings eerie beauty to crime fiction, Amitav Ghosh traces the climate crisis to colonialism and Bill Buford goes to the heart of French cuisine Lemon Kwon Yeo-Sun (translated by Janet Hong) Apollo, £12.99, pp192 Seoul 2002 and a city that’s been gripped by World Cup fever is about to be consumed by an infinitely darker news story: the murder of 18-year-old Kim Hae-on, whose ethereal good looks lead to the case being dubbed “the high school beauty murder”. Nobody is ever charged and 17 years on it still consumes her younger sister, Da-on, whose entire self – dumpy and plain but whip-smart and brimming with life – has altered in response. Though the narrative takes the form of a detective novel, it becomes a meditation on envy, grief and, this being South Korea, plastic surgery. Understated yet lingeringly eerie.