At the Intersection of Korea and Mongolia: the Uncompromising Stories of Jeon Sungtae’s Wolves

Where Modern Korean Drama Began: the Heroism, Villainy, and Idealism of Yi Kwang Su’s The Soil

Three Recent Books, Including a Funny and Inventive Graphic Novel, On What It Means to Be a Korean

The Explorer’s Guide to Korean Fiction in Translation: The Fractured Postmodern Adventures of Jung Young Moon, Park Min-Gyu, and Other Contemporary Writers

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: Postmodern Freedom, Postmodern Peril

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: the Prehistory of Postmodernism

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: Not a Soul Without Blame

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: Alienation, Politics, and Women

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: The Social Tragedies of the “Economic Miracle”

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: Deeper Into the War’s Aftermath, a Deeper Sense of Separation

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: War and Separation

Reforming a Leper Colony and Other Tricky Tasks: Three Recent Volumes of Translated Korean Fiction

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: What about War?

Eating Korea: an Anthony Bourdain-Approved Search for the Culinary Soul of an Ever-Changing Country

Koreans in Strange Lands: The History- and Culture-Saturated Fiction of Jo Jung-Rae

A Rare Korean War Story in How in Heaven’s Name

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: After Colonialism and Into Civil War

Where to Start Reading Translated Korean Literature

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: Literature as Japanese Colonialism Fell

The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation: Literature Under the Japanese Occupation

Plastic Surgery, Pressure to Succeed, and Presidential Turmoil: Selections from the LARB Korea Blog’s First Year

Enlightenment Fiction and the Birth of the “Modern” Korean Novel

Finding Breezy Humor at the End of the World: the Stories of Kim Mi-wol

When Was Korean Fiction First Translated into English?

Heroes, Fantasies, and Families: What Went Into the First Korean Novels?

Working the Spaces Between: an Interview with Korea Lit founder Hannah E. Carson

Why Does Korean Literature Use an Alphabet?

How Did Korea Get Fiction in the First Place?

What Shaped Korean Translated Literature?  

Where Is Korean Translated Literature?

The Gwangju Uprising as Remembered by The Vegetarian Author Han Kang and Other Korean Novelists

The Gwangju Uprising from an American’s Perspective: a Q&A with The Seed of Joy Author William Amos

Bright Lies, Big City: Korean Authors and Seoul

“Hell Joseon” and Korean Literature

The Triumph of Han Kang and the Rise of Women’s Writing in Korea

Looking Back at Modern Short Stories from Korea, the Very First Collection of Korean Fiction in English