Read the World: South Korea

Books by authors from South Korea or set in/about South Korea.

Updated February 2, 2024
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The vegetarian : a novel
Han, Kang 1970-
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * "[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation."--Entertainment Weekly One of the New York...
The horizon
JH (Cartoonist), author, illustrator.
Paper Book
A world where everything has been lost. A boy and a girl alone together. All they can do is move forward. But against broken adults and devastating despair, how long will they be able to keep going ...?
When spring comes to the DMZ
Yi, Ŏk-pae author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Batchelder Honor Winner, 2020 ALA Youth Media Awards Honorable Mention, 2019 Freeman Awards (National Consortium for Teaching about Asia) Korea's demilitarized zone has become an amazing accidental nature preserve that gives hope for a brighter future for a...
Bride of the Water God
Yun, Mi-gyŏng, 1980- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
When Soah's impoverished, desperate village decides to sacrifice her to the Water God Habaek to end a long drought, they believe that drowning one beautiful girl will save their entire community and bring much-needed rain. Not only is Soah surprised to be rescued by the Water God - instead of killed...

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