Squid Game is a South Korean survival thriller, set in a dystopian world written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk. The series revolves around a secret competition where 456 financially struggling ...

Squid Game is a brutal test of survival, pushing its contestants to their limits in a deadly battle for fortune. This Netflix series, first released in 2021, has captivated audiences with its ...

Apart from Lee’s Gi-hun, several other players join the deadly game in season 1 of Squid Game. One of them was, Kang Sae-byeok, portrayed by model-turned-actress Jung Ho-yeon. Every player had a ...

Each contestant had a backstory that explained why they joined the game. Some of these backstories stood out and added depth to the storyline, and among them is Kang Sae-byeok, also known as Player ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Internationally famous authors need no pity, but the status comes with vulnerabilities. Having been turned into global ambassadors ...

Han Kang’s latest novel ... Trying to make sense of its haunting images — thousands of forbidding, dark tree trunks standing on a snow-covered hill as the sea encroaches — led her to ...

WE DO NOT PART, by Han Kang; translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. A 2021 novel by the South Korean writer Han Kang, “We Do Not Part” is now being published in English for the first ...

In Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part,” newly translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the narrator visits a friend who is in the hospital after severing the tips of ...

She wrote a book about state violence, just as Kang did in 2014 with “Human Acts,” a novel about the 1980 Gwangju massacre of student protesters. Images of human atrocity still haunt Kyungha.

Han Kang is a private person ... Again and again, Han returns to images of imposition and projection, something distant and ghostly that sits right on top of the physical, likening the process ...

Ji-yeong very quickly established a friendship with Kang Sae-byeok, and she slowly revealed her dark backstory to her during said game. After their deep and meaningful conversation, however ...