Korea

Books set in Korea.

Pachinko
The Vegetarian
82년생 김지영
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Human Acts
Please Look After Mom
Crying in H Mart
The Island of Sea Women
If I Had Your Face
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Almond
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
The Orphan Master's Son
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa SeeJade Lady Burning by Martin LimónI Hear Your Voice by Young-ha KimMeeting Mr Kim  by Jennifer BarclaySkin Food by Type A
Books Set in South Korea
26 books — 12 voters

Korean Grammar in Use - Beginning by Ahn Jean-myungTalk To Me In Korean - Level 1 by TalkToMeInKorean2000 Essential Korean Words for Beginners by Seol-hee AhnKorean Made Easy for Beginners by Seung-eun OhBasic Korean by Andrew Sangpil Byon
Best Books for Learning Korean
33 books — 8 voters
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie OhLast of the Talons by Sophie   KimProphecy by Ellen OhWicked Fox by Kat ChoA Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh
Korean Fantasy Books
26 books — 34 voters

XOXO by Axie OhK-pop Confidential by Stephan  LeeWicked Fox by Kat ChoI'll Be the One by Lyla LeeOnce Upon a K-Prom by Kat Cho
Best K-pop & K-drama Books
84 books — 122 voters
The Robot and the Weight of the Bed by Sanjugo NaokiThe Man-made Baby by Hirabayashi HatsunosukeAstro Boy, Vol. 1 by Osamu Tezukaドラえもん 1 [Doraemon 1] by Fujiko F. FujioStand-In Companion by Kazufumi Shiraishi
Japanese and Korean Robot Fiction
30 books — 1 voter

The experts only try to discourage me by identifying risks and obstacles. Had I listened to their advice, I would have ended up doing nothing. Park Chung Hee
Byung-Kook Kim & Ezra F. Vogel

Korean Zen—known as Son—is also a tradition worthy of far more attention than it has gleaned to date in Western scholarship. Indeed, given the pervasive emphasis on Japanese forms of Zen found in Western literature on the tradition (as indicated by our common English usage of the Japanese pronunciation "Zen" to represent all the national branches of the school), we may forget that there are other, equally compelling and authentic approaches to Zen thought and practice found elsewhere in Asia. ...more
Robert E. Buswell Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience

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