The Guardian

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    Want to transform your life? Stop chasing perfection

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    Jan 12
    Haemin is especially eloquent on life’s smaller dissatisfactions, and how they can sometimes be trickier to deal with than the bigger, more dramatic ones. For example, though it’s a good thing that we talk so much more openly today about mental illness, one perverse consequence is that it can...
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    The Observer Best books of 2018

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    Dec 9, 2018
    Ancco's English Translation <Bad Friends 나쁜친구들> selected Best Books of 2018 (Graphic Novels)
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    Min Jin Lee: 'History has failed almost everybody who is ordinary'

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    Aug 1, 2018
    Min Jin Lee, whose writings wrestle with race, class, diaspora, religion and love, is one of the 200 honorees whose modern-day work best embodies Frederick Douglass’s legacy of social change.
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    At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong – review

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    Nov 25, 2018
    A Book Reveiw of Hwang Sok-yong's <At dusk 해질무렵>
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    The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang - review

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    May 30, 2014
    Book Reveiw of Sun-Mi Hwang's English translation <The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly = 마당을 나온 암탉> 'After just reading the first page, I was completely sucked into this story bursting with originality'
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    How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee review – fugitive tales

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    Sep 2, 2016
    Book Reveiw of Krys Lee's Book <How I Became a North Korean> Lee has worked with North Korean refugees, and her hotly anticipated debut novel vividly captures the challenges faced by defectors
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    Han Kang to bury next book for almost 100 years in Norwegian forest

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    Aug 31, 2018
    The world’s most secretive library, currently housed only in the minds of its authors and containing books that will not be read for almost a century, has added a new writer to its glittering list of contributors: the award-winning South Korean novelist Han Kang.
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    Translation Tuesday: Three poems by Choi Seung-ja

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    Jan 24, 2017
    Existential despair and dreamlike descriptions of nature abound in these poems by fierce feminist and iconic Korean poet Choi Seung-ja By Choi Seung-ja and Lei Kim for Translation Tuesdays by Asymptote, part of the Guardian Books Network
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    Top 10 books about North Korea

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    May 2, 2018
    Top 10 books about North Korea. (by Novelist DB John) 1. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick 2. North of the DMZ by Andrei Lankov 3. Long Road Home by Kim Yong 4. A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church 5. North Korea Confidential by Daniel Tudor and James Pearson 6. Dear Leader by Jang Jin-sung 7. The...
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    Top 10 books about South Korea

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    Feb 14, 2018

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