Korean Literature

She's always had to deal with the trouble her gambler boyfriend creates, and now she's in for it big time. Lonnie's put up his Korean beauty as part of a poker bet, and when the chips are down, she's going down as well. A shocking gangbang with interracial sex, forced deepthroat, forced first anal sex, and double penetration ensues. This Asian sex short by Stacy Reinhardt pushes all the right buttons and adds a few extra for good measure.

Jae-Young has just left everything she’s ever known, not that it was much: her thankless job, her infested apartment, and her abusive boyfriend—who happens to be dead on the kitchen floor. Murder was never the way she envisioned leaving, but times were desperate. Now on a train to the bustling city of Seoul, Jae-Young is hoping to escape her transgressions and just become invisible—safe. On the train, she meets a chatty mother fleeing with her infant son from an unfaithful husband and hoping to find refuge with the in-laws she’s never met.

1999: At the end of the millennium, the Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children than ever before. One evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of an unhoused stranger in the backyard with a letter to Sunny, leaving the family with more questions than ever. 1977: Newly married, Sunny is pregnant and has just moved to Los Angeles from Korea with her hardworking and often-absent husband.

로맨스 소설의 고전이자, 19세기 초 영국에서 유행한 고딕 소설로도 평가 받는, 여성 작가 샬럿 브론테의 대표작. 책은 가난한 고아 가정교사 제인 에어와 부유하지만 불행한 에드워드 로체스터의 사랑 이야기가 작품의 중심축을 이루고 이들의 사랑을 방해하는 장애물이 주된 갈등으로 작용한다. 작가는 자매들과 함께 다녔던 기숙 학교의 기억과, 비련으로 끝나고 만 사랑의 경험을 작품 속에 녹여낸다.

In her signature sharp prose, brilliantly translated by Jamie Chang, Nam-Joo returns with this haunting account of a neglected housing complex in the shadows of Town: a former fishing village bought out by a massive conglomerate. Town is prosperous and safe―but only if you’re a citizen with “valuable skills and assets,” which the residents of Saha Estates are not. Disenfranchised and tightlipped, the Saha are forced into harsh labor, squatting in moldy units without electricity.

우리 집에 대학생 엄마가 살고 있다 "그대, 엄마의 이름을 불러본 적이 있는가!" 자발적 하숙생이 되어버린 엄마, 강순희와 느닷없이 하숙집 아줌마가 된 딸, 백연화의 좌충우돌 휴먼 드라마. 만나기만 하면 으르렁대는 모녀. 서로가 서로를 진심으로 이해할 날은 찾아올까? WELCOME TO 연화하숙. 연화였지만 언젠가 순희 씨가 될 세상의 모든 딸들과 이제는 순희 씨가 되어버린 모든 엄마들에게, 이곳 연화하숙으로 초대합니다.

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After catching her fiancé cheating, Naomi spirals emotionally. One rainy night, she drunkenly returns to the house they once shared—only to discover that it’s no longer his. The new owner, Minjae Park, is calm, kind, and startlingly handsome. His peaceful spirit and quiet faith contrast deeply with the chaos in Naomi’s heart. As Naomi begins to heal, the two form a slow-burning friendship rooted in trust, compassion, and shared spiritual values. But both carry past wounds.

In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times best-selling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception - and escape.

This is a classic fairy tale written in both Korean and English, so it is a great way to teach both languages to your little ones. Yetnare ("Once upon a time" in Korean), there was a little girl called Little Red Riding Hood. One day, she went through the woods to visit her grandmother. But a big scary wolf follows her.... What will happen? Listen to find out.

Moving beyond the quasi-fraternal bond of the unforgettable George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, Hurt You explores the actual sibling bond of Georgia and Leonardo da Vinci Daewoo Kim, who has an unnamed neurological disability that resembles autism. The themes of race, disability, and class spin themselves out in a suburban high school where the Kim family has moved in order to access better services for Leonardo.

From master storyteller An Na comes the Printz Award-winning novel about a Korean girl who tells her firsthand account of trying to find her place and identity in America from the day she leaves Korea as a child to her rocky journey through the teenage years.

Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have been friends since the kids were making crayon art. They, however, are repulsed by each other. Winter is MIT-bound, comfortable keeping people at arm’s length. Bobby is as Type-A, anxious, and risk-averse as you can get. He’s also been recently dumped. That’s why, when Winter’s and Bobby’s parents insist that they go on a northeast college campus tour together, both teens find reasons to accept even though the idea of being stuck in a car together for 700 miles sounds unbearable.

온화하지만 허영심이 강한 메그, 천사 같은 심성을 지닌 이타주의자 베스, 투덜대면서도 자신이 나아갈 길을 아는 막내 에이미, 그리고 엉뚱한 사고뭉치지만 책을 좋아하는 작가 지망생 조. 가난하고 초라한 환경이지만 고비마다 서로에게 위로자가 되어주며 인생의 참의미를 찾아가는 네 자매는 1868년 첫 발표 이래 약 150여 년간 전 세계 50여 개국 독자들에게 꾸준히 사랑받고 있다. 독자들은 누구나 네 자매 중 한 명을 자신과 동일시하며 마치 집안의 자매들에게 빠져들었고, [타임]이 최고의 100대 소설로 선정한 것도 바로 이런 공감의 힘에서 나왔다.

Much like Lee Chang-dong’s internationally renowned films (Burning, Secret Sunshine, and Poetry), these brilliant, unsettling tales, originally published in Korea in the 1980s and now translated into English for the first time, investigate themes of injustice, betrayal, and terror—on both an intimate and national scale. Lee writes deeply and hauntingly about conflicts between family, the powerful and the vulnerable, conformists and rebels.

Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926-1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants’ nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty.

Manila, Philippines, 2003. Dane Chandler is visiting Manila on a writing assignment. Jack Pierce is a tough-talking Korean War veteran. When Jack asks Dane to join him for cards at the pension's cafe, Dane instinctively agrees, sensing the man's "command" presence. What unfolds will change their lives forever. Tokyo, Japan, 1949. Jack Pierce joined the army for honor and adventure, finding himself garrisoned at Camp Drake, Tokyo. On a raucous night at Ginza's glitzy Club Florida, the young corporal meets the love of his life, Michiko Okura.

「아름다운 괴물」의 주인공 정수정은 이혼과 출산 후 방송계에 복귀해 셀럽이 된 다이어트 클리닉 원장이다. 미디어는 일과 육아를 모두 완벽하게 해내는 정수정을 슈퍼맘으로 추켜세우지만, 실상은 그렇지 못하다. 「아름다운 괴물」은 주인공의 삶이 서서히 무너져 가는 긴박감을 잘 살린 작품으로, 여성에게만 요구하는 아름다운 신체와 슈퍼맘이라는 허상을 고발한다.

오늘날까지 세계적으로 널리 사랑받는 캐릭터 무민은 1945년, 무민 시리즈의 서막이라 할 수 있는 『무민 가족과 대홍수』 이후 1970년까지 26년에 걸쳐 그림책 4권과 연작소설 8권으로 출간되었다. 무민 골짜기에서 살아가는 무민과 친구들의 이야기가 담긴 '무민 연작소설'로 어린이 문학의 노벨상인 한스 크리스티안 안데르센상을 수상했지만, 사실 토베 얀손은 "특정 독자층을 염두에 두지 않고" 글을 썼다. 이번에 출간하는 '토베 얀손 무민 연작소설'은 어린이뿐만 아니라 어른까지 세대를 막론하고 쉽게 가까이 다가갈 수 있다. 『혜성이 다가온다』는 8편 가운데 첫 번째 작품이다. 제2차 세계 대전 종전 후인 1946년에 발표했던 무민 연작소설 『무민 골짜기에 나타난 혜성』을 1968년에 다시 쓴 작품이다. 중역 없이 스웨덴 어 원작을 최대한 원문에 가깝게 번역했으며, 1968년 개정판 국내 초역본이라 할 수 있다.

2004년 영화진흥공사 재외동포 장편 시나리오 부문에 「썸머레인」이 당선되면서 작품 활동을 시작한 작가 황희는 휴먼 스릴러라는 한 가지 장르만으로 지금까지 9편 이상의 중단편 소설과 시나리오를 집필했다. 어떤 소설이라도 결국은 인간에 의한, 인간을 위한, 인간이 주제인 그녀의 작품 성격은 여러 단편들을 소개하면서 구체화 되어간다. 좀비로 변하고 나서 인간으로서의 자유를 비로소 느끼는 주인공이 등장하는 좀비 소설 「잿빛 도시를 걷다」, 팀 버튼의 우울하고 기괴한 애니메이션에 등장할 법한 외모, 예측 불가능한 성격의 중년 여자 「이웃 주민 방숙자」 등 그녀는 영화나 소설에서 좀처럼 찾아 볼 수 없는 독특한 개성을 지닌 캐릭터들을 창조해 낸다.