Apart from Lee’s Gi-hun, several other players join the deadly game in season 1 of Squid Game. One of them was, Kang ...

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 ...

Player 067 in the first season of Squid Game is Kang Sae-byeok, a North Korean defector who enters the game to win money and reunite her family. Model and actress Ho-yeon Jung portrays the character.

Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee.

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an accident in Seoul, asks her friend Kyungha to travel to her home on ...

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is blood, but it’s the current of life,” she said. Han Kang in 2016.

Han Kang's new book "We Do Not Part" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Paik Duhim; book cover courtesy Penguin Random House/Hogarth) Last year, novelist Han Kang became the first Korean writer to ...

Chen De being upgraded at CSBC shipyard earlier this month. Picture courtesy of 臺灣賞船人Taiwan Ships Watchers https://www.facebook.com/TaiwanShipsWatchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a new cast, I enjoyed the variety of characters even more than in the first season. In the first season, larger side characters like Kang Sae-byok and Abdul Ali stood out for their tragic deaths ...