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  • DLKL
    군함도

    Gunhamdo

    Korean(한국어) Printed/Published Work

    Han Soosan / 한수산 / 2016 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

    It is a novel by Han Soosan, published in 2016. It was written based on extensive and detailed research on the Korean forced laborers during the Japanese colonial period. It vividly depicts the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and the suffering of Koreans on Hashima Island, which is known as “Battleship Island.”

  • DLKL
    까마귀

    Kkamagwi

    Korean(한국어) Printed/Published Work

    Han Soosan / 한수산 / 2003 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Historical > Biographical > Political > Social

    This is a five-volume novel by Han Soosan, published in 2003. It deals with the pain and suffering of Koreans who were taken to Hashima Island in Japan for forced labor, and sacrificed in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

  • DLKL
    마음의 감옥 외

    Maeumui gamong oe

    Korean(한국어) Printed/Published Work

    Kim Won il et al / 김원일 et al / - / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection & Library (more than 2 writers)

  • 부초
    부초

    Bucho

    Korean(한국어) Printed/Published Work

    Han Soosan / 한수산 / 2005 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

    This is a novel by Han Soosan, published in Segyeui munhak (Literature of the World) in 1976. It discusses their wanderings and new beginnings of the circus troupe “Irwol Acrobatic Troupe,” which has been pushed to the margins by the times. It depicts the pains of life centered on the lives of marginalized people, and depicts the new power of human life through the ending.