Korean Literature

Timely and unique, Jia is the first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in the West. It is easily a YA crossover novel as Jia follows the adventures of an orphaned young woman, Jia in the 1970s and 1980s - bitterly tumultuous times for North Korea and China. Jia has the grace of a dancer but the misfortune of coming from a politically suspect family.

Meet Noh Inji: thirty years old, five wedding rings and counting, and she’s never once been in love. When Inji takes a job at Wedding & Life, the popular matchmaking service, she never imagines her role will be with NM, their secretive marriage division that rents out “field spouses” for a fixed period to their elite clientele. Just like a real marriage, Inji’s assignments involve a wedding, some sex, and a spot of housework. It’s all tailored exactly to the client’s desires—no legal battles, no fights, no emotional baggage.

1999: At the end of the millennium, the Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children than ever before. One evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of an unhoused stranger in the backyard with a letter to Sunny, leaving the family with more questions than ever. 1977: Newly married, Sunny is pregnant and has just moved to Los Angeles from Korea with her hardworking and often-absent husband.

숙향전'은 어린 소녀 숙향이 부모님을 잃고, 갖은 고난 속에서 성장해가는 이야기입니다. 숙향은 주어진 운명에 따라 자신이 겪어야 할 시련을 모두 거친 뒤에야 사랑하는 낭군과 부모님을 만날 수 있었습니다. 그 속에서 벌어지는 사건과 옥황상제, 용왕, 선녀와 같이 현실에서 볼 수 없는 인물들의 등장은 흥미진진하고 환상적입니다. 우리 모두 숙향이 들려주는 상상의 세계로 함께 떠나 볼까요?

'죽고 싶다'와 '살기 싫다'의 중간 즈음 잠시 멈춤이 존재한다면…. 현재까지 인류는 스스로 냉동되어 졌으나 해동된 기록은 없다. 언제 해동 기술이 개발될지는 알 수도 없다. 언젠가 깨어나는 것이 아닌 누군가 깨워 줘야 하지만 얼마의 긴 시간 동안 동면을 해야 할지 알 수 없는 시간이 지난 후 깨어난다면 과연 내가 원하던 삶을 살 수 있을까? 불치의 병을 완치시켜 줄까? 아직은 인류의 숙제로 남아있는 인간의 냉동과 해동에 관한 어쩌면 일어날지도 모르는 일을 이야기로 풀었다.

Jackie Oh is done being your model minority. She’s tired of perfect GPAs, PSATs, SATs, all of it. Jackie longs to become a professional chef. But her Korean American parents are Ivy League corporate workaholics who would never understand her dream. Just ask her brother, Justin, who hasn’t heard from them since he was sent to Rikers Island. Jackie works at her grandparents’ Midtown Manhattan deli after school and practices French cooking techniques at night—when she should be studying.

모두 똑같은 24시간을 사는데, 왜 어떤 사람들은 더 많은 것을 이루는 것일까? 『예술하는 습관』의 저자 메이슨 커리는 이 질문에 대한 답을 위대한 성취를 이룬 예술가들의 보통의 하루에서 찾고자 했다. 충동적이고 즉흥적인 영감으로 일할 것 같은 예술가 대부분은 지독하리만치 규칙적이고 성실했으며 그 누구보다 더 엄격하게 습관을 유지했다.

An American soldier's life spirals out of control after he makes a fateful discovery on the Korean DMZ and then falls in love with a beautiful brothel courtesan whose tragic past becomes entwined in a volatile confrontation with Communist North Korea. It's the 1960s, the Vietnam conflict is raging, and a delicate Korean armistice threatens to fall apart at the world's most dangerous border, pushing the US toward the brink of another war in Asia. With his life in danger, GI Eddie Profar must decide if he should reveal his startling secret, which has already caused the deaths of two people.

온화하지만 허영심이 강한 메그, 천사 같은 심성을 지닌 이타주의자 베스, 투덜대면서도 자신이 나아갈 길을 아는 막내 에이미, 그리고 엉뚱한 사고뭉치지만 책을 좋아하는 작가 지망생 조. 가난하고 초라한 환경이지만 고비마다 서로에게 위로자가 되어주며 인생의 참의미를 찾아가는 네 자매는 1868년 첫 발표 이래 약 150여 년간 전 세계 50여 개국 독자들에게 꾸준히 사랑받고 있다. 독자들은 누구나 네 자매 중 한 명을 자신과 동일시하며 마치 집안의 자매들에게 빠져들었고, [타임]이 최고의 100대 소설로 선정한 것도 바로 이런 공감의 힘에서 나왔다.

Can't I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant in the early 20th century. When the daughter’s suitor is arrested as a Korean Independence activist, and she is implicated during the investigation, she is quickly forced into marriage to one of her father’s Japanese employees and shipped off to the United States. At the same time, her maidservant is sent in her mistress's place to be a comfort woman to the Japanese Imperial army.

대부분이 피난을 가서 텅 비어 있는 서울, 갑작스레 사상과 권력이 뒤바뀌고 이분법적 논리와 인식의 틀이 몇 안 남은 사람들의 삶도 깊이 갈라놓는다. 『목마른 계절』은 마구잡이로 뒤섞이고 무너져 내리던 혼돈 속 서울에서 1년간 벌어진 이야기를 인민군 부역을 하는 여대생 진이의 시각에서 그린 작품이다.

Ian McAllister has searched the world over, hunting for that all-elusive perfect photograph. He finds it on a tourist trip to North Korea when he stumbles upon a young street kid foraging for roots. Unaware that this single act will brand him a spy and cost his freedom, Ian takes the shot. Now, he must pay the penalty.

After young Jieun accidentally misuses her powers, causing her beloved family to vanish, she lives a million restless lives in search of them. Overnight, in the village of Marigold on top of a hill, she conjures up her Mind Laundry, where she cleanses painful experiences, transferring them into stains on a T-shirt and turning them into dazzling red petals. We meet five souls: a frustrated young filmmaker; a tortured social-media influencer; a distraught mother who has discovered her husband’s other family; a young woman two-timed by her lover; a talented photographer and victim of bullying.

How the mighty have fallen. Anna K, once the golden girl of Greenwich, CT, and New York City, has been brought low by a scandalous sex tape and the tragic death of her first love, Alexia Vronsky. At the beginning of the summer, her father takes her to the other side of the world, to connect with his family in South Korea and hide her away. Back in the US, Lolly has forgiven Steven for cheating on her, and their relationship feels stronger than ever. But when Lolly meets a boy at her beloved theater camp, she has to ask herself how well Steven will ever really know her.

When Eugene Kim assembles his three estranged daughters at his deathbed, he means to put them to the test. Vicious and pathetic in equal measure, he wants to test who will abject themselves for his favor—and, more importantly, his fortune. Each isolated and desperate to escape their circumstances, the sisters wrestle with the legacy of their abusive father as they attempt to imagine a future with others—colleagues, lovers, friends, family—as rage and shame courses through their blood.

From Sophie Kim comes the second book in the epic fantasy based on Korean mythology, an unflinching roller coaster ride of action, romance, and intricate fantasy lore.

양 갈래로 땋은 빨강 머리에 주근깨 많고 창백한 피부를 가진 앤. 지난 100년 동안 이토록 사랑받은 주인공이 또 있을까? 역사상 가장 사랑받은 소녀 이야기 『빨강 머리 앤』이 아름다운 모습으로 우리를 찾아왔다. 평화로운 에이번리 마을 커스버트네 집에 농사를 도울 남자아이가 온다는 소문이 돈다. 하지만 마차에서 내린 사람은 빼빼 마르고 머리가 빨간 여자아이. 실수로 입양된 고아 앤 셜리는 숫기 없는 매슈, 엄격한 마릴라 남매와 새로운 삶을 시작한다. 과연 이들에게 무슨 일이 일어날까? 첫 페이지부터 책을 덮을 때까지 손에서 놓을 수 없는 이야기의 힘은 바로 '앤'이라는 인물이 지닌 강력한 힘에서 온다.

When his jet malfunctions, Captain Ward Millar makes a last-second decision to eject over enemy territory in North Korea before his plane explodes. His parachute barely opens before impact, saving his life, but the hard landing snaps both of his ankles. Unable to walk, Captain Millar is easily captured by North Korean and Chinese soldiers. His captors interrogate, threaten, and starve him in an attempt to extract strategic wartime information. He stalls the inevitable by feeding the enemy false information, but it’s only a matter of time before they discover his lies.

Peace has returned to the Pacific after the Taiwan War, but it doesn’t last. The Korean peninsula erupts in fire and blood, drawing America into a fresh conflict that sees use of some of the world’s deadliest weapons. In the aftermath, Navy fighter pilot Jack Knapp tells a news reporter about his experiences fighting the Korean People’s Army (KPA) and how he helped prevent a nuclear attack that could have destroyed an American city.

Deep in the Korean mountains, US sniper Caje Cole and his squad are on patrol when they witness a dogfight that ends with an American pilot being shot down over enemy territory. Cole leads the rescue effort that puts him in conflict with a deadly Chinese sniper, but that turns out to be the least of his worries. Enemy forces are on the move, starting with the capture of an outpost just beyond the American line.