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The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 756 times as korean)
avg rating 3.65 — 394,609 ratings — published 2007
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 543 times as korean)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,889 ratings — published 2016
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 473 times as korean)
avg rating 4.34 — 635,411 ratings — published 2017
Human Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 398 times as korean)
avg rating 4.27 — 77,713 ratings — published 2014
Almond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 382 times as korean)
avg rating 4.14 — 181,595 ratings — published 2017
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (Paperback)
by (shelved 294 times as korean)
avg rating 3.21 — 102,266 ratings — published 2018
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 275 times as korean)
avg rating 3.89 — 87,536 ratings — published 2022
Please Look After Mom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as korean)
avg rating 3.92 — 48,658 ratings — published 2008
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as korean)
avg rating 3.74 — 42,727 ratings — published 2017
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as korean)
avg rating 4.23 — 607,424 ratings — published 2021
The White Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as korean)
avg rating 3.81 — 36,955 ratings — published 2016
If I Had Your Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as korean)
avg rating 3.74 — 58,658 ratings — published 2020
Greek Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as korean)
avg rating 3.60 — 47,929 ratings — published 2011
Love in the Big City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as korean)
avg rating 3.67 — 17,548 ratings — published 2019
DallerGut Dream Department Store (DallerGut Dream Department Store, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as korean)
avg rating 3.65 — 41,891 ratings — published 2020
I Have The Right To Destroy Myself (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as korean)
avg rating 3.21 — 5,873 ratings — published 1995
We Do Not Part (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as korean)
avg rating 3.86 — 31,494 ratings — published 2021
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as korean)
avg rating 3.98 — 21,921 ratings — published 2000
Untold Night and Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as korean)
avg rating 3.45 — 5,851 ratings — published 2013
Winter in Sokcho (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as korean)
avg rating 3.53 — 28,288 ratings — published 2016
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as korean)
avg rating 4.08 — 96,647 ratings — published 2022
Shoko's Smile: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as korean)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,926 ratings — published 2016
The Hole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as korean)
avg rating 3.35 — 10,050 ratings — published 2016
Concerning My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as korean)
avg rating 3.70 — 12,220 ratings — published 2017
The Second Chance Convenience Store (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as korean)
avg rating 3.91 — 18,864 ratings — published 2021
The Plotters (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as korean)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,642 ratings — published 2010
Violets (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as korean)
avg rating 3.54 — 4,077 ratings — published 2001
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as korean)
avg rating 4.48 — 105,879 ratings — published 2015
No One Writes Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as korean)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,441 ratings — published 2009
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as korean)
avg rating 4.32 — 171,326 ratings — published 2019
Diary of a Murderer and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as korean)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,904 ratings — published 2019
I'll Be Right There (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as korean)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,976 ratings — published 2010
Beasts of a Little Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as korean)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,424 ratings — published 2021
The Good Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as korean)
avg rating 3.76 — 17,394 ratings — published 2016
The Red Palace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as korean)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,376 ratings — published 2022
The Court Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as korean)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,618 ratings — published 2007
One Hundred Shadows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as korean)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,889 ratings — published 2010
Nowhere to Be Found (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as korean)
avg rating 3.37 — 3,004 ratings — published 1998
A Crane Among Wolves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as korean)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,515 ratings — published 2024
The Disaster Tourist (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as korean)
avg rating 3.34 — 7,561 ratings — published 2013
At Dusk (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as korean)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,236 ratings — published 2015
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as korean)
avg rating 4.43 — 102,304 ratings — published 2014
XOXO (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as korean)
avg rating 3.79 — 48,230 ratings — published 2021
A Magical Girl Retires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as korean)
avg rating 3.54 — 11,750 ratings — published 2022
The Old Woman with the Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as korean)
avg rating 3.49 — 8,643 ratings — published 2013
Talk To Me In Korean - Level 1 (Talk To Me In Korean Textbook #1)
by (shelved 52 times as korean)
avg rating 4.56 — 651 ratings — published 2012
Your Republic Is Calling You (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as korean)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,846 ratings — published 2006
“For a non-Korean speaker it might seem strange that Koreans refer to their own children with the derogatory term for “a child of a beast”, but there’s two meanings in how Koreans use 새끼 saekki for their child - they’re being derogatory by admitting that we’re nothing but animals, but they’re also saying that being nothing but an animal is the highest honor of all. The most sophisticated and profound emotion a human can feel is the most common and bonds us to everything that has ever lived and reproduced: love of child.
People who have kids like to say there’s no way to describe what it feels like to have a child to someone who doesn’t have a child, I feel the same way but I also don’t. Having a baby is strange in that it is something you’ve never felt before, but it’s also the only thing you’ve ever felt before. Having a baby makes you feel love and fear death, but it’s not because those things are taught to you, they are reactivated in you. Having a baby isn’t learning, it’s realising you’ve already known everything all along.”
― I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
People who have kids like to say there’s no way to describe what it feels like to have a child to someone who doesn’t have a child, I feel the same way but I also don’t. Having a baby is strange in that it is something you’ve never felt before, but it’s also the only thing you’ve ever felt before. Having a baby makes you feel love and fear death, but it’s not because those things are taught to you, they are reactivated in you. Having a baby isn’t learning, it’s realising you’ve already known everything all along.”
― I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
“I was to inherit them, the legacy unfurling before me this way: you worked from before sunrise to the dead of night. You were never unkind in your dealings, but then you were not generous. Your family was your life, though you rarely saw them. You kept close handsome sums of cash in small denominations. You were steadily cornering the market in self-pride. You drove a Chevy and then a Caddy and then a Benz. You never missed a mortgage payment or a day of church. You prayed furiously until you wept. You considered the only unseen forces to be those of capitalism and the love of Jesus Christ.”
― Native Speaker
― Native Speaker
