2019-09-05 / II00000033

KLN is published and distributed for the purpose of generating a discourse on Korean literature and introducing Korean writers and works to general readers and experts overseas. The theme of KLN Vol. 45 is Bapsang, which is where communication or disconnection occurs in daily life. This is an excerpt from “Candlelit Table” by Park Wansuh.

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

2022-03-03 / II00001112

This is a review of the Russian translation of The Crucible, published in KLN Vol. 55. Russian writer Aleksandra Tsibulia analyzes the interplay of internal and external elements, including characters, setting, and plot, of Gong Ji-young’s The Crucible, which has been translated into Russian, under the theme of “the journey through the fog".

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.