2020-06-12 / II00000210

For the purpose of generating a discourse on Korean literature and introducing Korean writers and works to general readers and experts overseas, KLN publishes book reviews by overseas scholars and publishers. This is a review of the Mongolian translation of Korean Short Stories and Novellas by Choe Jeong-hui.

2021-11-25 / II00000870

This 51-page final report of the 2021 Seoul International Writers’ Festival contains the following information: results of the festival, program structure and operation, participating writers, survey (participating writers and audiences) results, opening keynote speeches, closing keynote speeches, related articles and media coverage

2023-04-07 / II00001165

This is a Cover Feature essay of KLN Vol. 59. Under the theme of “A Mourning Against Mourning,” critic Sung Hyunah explores how Korean literature has preserved “counter-memory,” defying the misappropriated and selective mourning for the deaths of others. Through literary works such as Han Kang’s We Do Not Part and Seong Haena’s “Oz,” this essay highlights the possibility of a broader sense of mourning that goes beyond the collective notion of “we.”

2024-12-01 / II00001516

This is a special feature essay on Han Kang, published in KLN Vol. 66. Literary critic Kyung Hee Youn discusses the significance of Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in Literature for contemporary readers of her works.

2024-12-01 / II00001518

This is a special feature essay on Han Kang, published in KLN Vol. 66. Deborah Smith, the translator of Han Kang’s Human Acts, discusses and reflects on Han Kang’s world of works.

2024-12-01 / II00001520

This is a special feature essay on Han Kang, published in KLN Vol. 66. Editor Susan Harris discusses the significance of Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in Literature for the international literary community.

2024-12-01 / II00001522

This is a special feature interview with translators of Han Kang’s works, published in KLN Vol. 66. Five translators share anecdotes from their translation processes and characteristics of Han Kang’s works.

2025-12-01 / II00001657

This is an essay (written in the form of an interview) by Pierre Bisiou, a French translator who has co-translated several of Han Kang’s works with Choi Kyungran, and co-founder of the French publishing house Le Serpent à Plumes.

2025-12-01 / II00001685

This is a review of the Turkish translation of Your Cold Hands by Han Kang, written by Sümeyra Buran.

2005-10-19 / II00000094

This is an introductory booklet on Han Kang, produced for the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair, where Korea participated as the Guest of Honor for the first time and hosted the Korean Literature Tour Program. The author was one of the 62 delegates selected by LTI Korea’s Delegation Selection Committee on the basis of the following criteria: representativeness, existing publications of translated works, and overseas marketability. The entire literature program was co-organized by the LTI Korea, the Frankfurt Book Fair Organizing Committee, Daesan Cultural Foundation, Paradise Cultural Foundation and the International Communication Foundation (ICF). The events started at the Leipzig Book Fair in March and finished with the Guest of Honor Program in October. The author participated in the main program in October and literary events in June. This 29-page booklet consists of: ‘Author’s Literary World’, ‘Analysis of The Fruit of My Woman’, ‘Excerpt’, ‘Voices of the Author and Critics’, ‘Biography’ and ‘Bibliography’. The material was put together and analyzed by Ryu Boseon and Jeong Yeo-wool, and translated by Kang Jeong-seok. The photographs were taken by Han Young-hee. Han Kang participated in literary events in Dresden, Leipzig (March), Tübingen, Regensburg (June), and at the Frankfurt Book Fair Korean Pavilion and Frankfurt Künstlerhaus (October). Her work ‘The Fruit of My Woman’ is included in the collection of Korean short stories published by dtv in 2005.