K-LIT REVIEW | Cheon Seon-ran's 'A Thousand Blues' explores human robot connection in near future
Imagine walking into your part-time convenience store job to find you’ve been replaced by Betty, a cutting-edge robot worker unfazed by long hours or rude "ajeossis" (middle-aged men).
Korea stages its biggest showcase at Bologna Children’s Book Fair
The Korean pavilion at this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Italy will be staged on its biggest scale yet. Now in its 62nd edition, the Bologna event, running from Monday to Thursday, remains the world’s largest international book fair and trade show dedicated to children’s literature.
K-LIT REVIEW | June Hur's 'A Crane Among Wolves' takes young adults on journey to past
The current decade has witnessed a renewed blossoming of literary works by Korean American and, increasingly, Korean Canadian writers. Prominent among the fiction of these writers are novels targeting a young adult (high school and up) and juvenile (middle school and up) readership.
'If You Want to Eat a Red Apple' becomes 1st Korean winner of BolognaRagazzi Opera Prima Award
The South Korean picture book "If you Want to Eat a Red Apple" has won a prestigious BolognaRagazzi Award for debut works, the award's website showed Friday, making it the first recipient of the highest honor in the category.
Celebrating Korean cuisine through picture books
For many Korean children, the careful rolling of "gimbap" (seaweed rice roll) or the aroma of sizzling kimchi pancakes isn’t just about food — it is a love language passed down through generations. Now, a growing collection of English picture books is bringing these culinary traditions to life, invi
K-LIT REVIEW | Cho Nam-joo's 'Saha' tackles a familiar dystopia
The purpose of dystopian literature is not to speculate about the future but to warn, and not to see beyond the present but to criticize it. As a genre, it is popular and offers great opportunity for creative vision, but also easily invites unflattering comparison to its greatest works; George Orwel
From sci-fi to healing fiction, Korean books cross borders in 2025
A wave of Korean literature is set to reach English-language readers in 2025, ranging from a new novel by a Nobel laureate to science fiction bestsellers and heartwarming healing fiction.
Revised law green-lights launch of literary translation graduate school
The Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) is set to realize its long-held ambition of establishing a state-run graduate school dedicated to literary translation following the National Assembly's recent approval of a revised bill.