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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kang Sae-byeok is an admirable character who uses her street smarts to survive for a long time in the games. However, by the end, a serious wound prevents her from defending herself against Sang ...