Korean Literature

Years later, the Korean War is a distant memory for the parents hosting their children for a Christmas party. But when an old photograph rekindles those memories, they're soon wrapped up in telling their children how they fell in love. As a nurse and a downed pilot, they'd found themselves on the run from the enemy - but the only thing that could snare them was true love.

기괴한 요괴 레스토랑에서 벌어지는 시아의 신비한 모험. 우연히 발견한 고양이에게 이끌려 기괴한 레스토랑에 들어가게 된 주인공 시아. 레스토랑 주인인 해돈에게 자신의 심장이 먹힐 위기에 처한다.

정원사에게 선물 받은 약초를 구하고 말리며 어느새 시아와 쥬드는 둘도 없는 친구가 된다. 게다가 시아는 레스토랑에서의 첫 번째 미션을 수행하며 요괴들의 도움을 받게 되는데, 이들의 도움을 탐탁지 않게 생각하는 이가 있으니 바로 하츠였다. 루이의 공연장에서 만난 시아와 하츠. 하츠는 시아를 불러 친구들을 향한 경고를 하는데....

Zwischen Sturm und Schicksal. Jedes Jahr wüten in Minas Heimat tödliche Stürme. Und jedes Jahr wird das schönste Mädchen in die Fluten geworfen. Denn eines Tages, so die Legenden, soll die wahre Braut des Meeresgottes auserwählt werden und den Unwettern ein Ende bereiten. Doch dieses Jahr greift Minas Bruder in das Ritual ein und gerät dabei in Lebensgefahr. Um ihn zu retten, opfert Mina sich freiwillig. Im Reich der Geister stellt sie allerdings fest, dass auf dem Meeresgott ein Fluch liegt.

Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but a more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her. Easing into middle age, Siobhan would generally rather have a glazed donut than a romance, but when an old friend asks Siobhan to find her daughter who has disappeared from her dorm, the rookie private detective's search begins at Llewellyn College.

Four days before Christmas, eight-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, twenty-eight-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer, and forty-eight-year-old Blue, a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous now-defunct tech startup, struggles to reconnect with his family. So begins Jinwoo Chong's dazzling time-bending debut that blends elements of neo-noir and speculative fiction as the lives of Bo, Brandon, and Blue begin to intersect, uncovering a network of secrets and an experimental technology that threatens to upend life itself.

Maya’s grandmother, Halmunee, may be losing her memory, but there’s something almost magical about the way she cooks. Whether Halmunee serves salty miyeokguk or sweet songpyeon, her stories about Korea come to life for Maya. Then one day, something extraordinary happens: a single delicious bite of patbingsu transports Maya and Halmunee back into one of Halmunee’s memories. Suddenly they’re in Seoul, and Halmunee is young. This is just the first of many secrets Maya will uncover: that she and her grandmother can time-travel, and they aren’t the only ones with this ability.

Judith's struggles to fit in as a half-Korean, half-Jewish kid in a tough urban neighborhood. But music lessons gave her a purpose and passion. Then chaos strikes: Judith's first love, who dumped her decades ago, returns to dazzle her with his golden pedigree and brilliant career. Her long-absent father arrives out of the blue with a snazzy car and a con man's patter, turning her mother into a love-struck flirt whom Judith barely recognizes.

숙향전'은 어린 소녀 숙향이 부모님을 잃고, 갖은 고난 속에서 성장해가는 이야기입니다. 숙향은 주어진 운명에 따라 자신이 겪어야 할 시련을 모두 거친 뒤에야 사랑하는 낭군과 부모님을 만날 수 있었습니다. 그 속에서 벌어지는 사건과 옥황상제, 용왕, 선녀와 같이 현실에서 볼 수 없는 인물들의 등장은 흥미진진하고 환상적입니다. 우리 모두 숙향이 들려주는 상상의 세계로 함께 떠나 볼까요?

병자호란 때문에 힘들었던 우리 백성에게 희망을 준, 영웅 임경업을 주인공으로 한 군담소설이다. 무과에 일등으로 합격한 임경업은 어린 시절부터 열심히 병서를 읽으며 공부한다. 벼슬할 때는 맡은 일에 최선을 다하고, 함께 일한 군사와 백성들을 아껴 준다. 명나라에 사신으로 갔다가 호국(후금, 후에 청나라로 이름을 바꿈)을 도와주라는 부탁을 받고 전쟁에 나가 전쟁을 승리로 이끈다. 이 일로 임경업 장군의 이름이 널리 퍼지게 된다.

Based on a true story. As the Korean War threatens to ignite a global nuclear inferno, the fate of the free world rests on a razor's edge, while on the home front, two towering American titans – the resolute President Truman and the legendary General MacArthur – engage in a perilous battle of wills that could either avert Armageddon or tear the nation apart.

His tour is over, but the war rages on for Dickie, one of the forever-haunted veterans who gave up his soul during the Forgotten War. Here is a glimpse of his story, of the battleground he can never leave. Only death can conclude his final objective: closure, and peace. Join him on his road, the Korean Road, as he battles horrors he carries and those that he meets along the way.

The Korean Soul: A Collection of Poems by H. C. Kim explores themes and ideas that are of importance to Koreans around the world, such as the current stand-off between South Korea and North Korea. By hearing H. C. Kim's poems, the listener will be able to see through the soul of Koreans. These poems are powerful testimonies to collective experiences of a people who boast 5,000+ years of history.

Kate Daniels is a co-pilot aboard the space shuttle Liberty. Liberty is to deploy a space defense system satellite created with the latest American technology. The shuttle crash-lands in the uncharted, mountainous frontier between North Korea and China. As the ranking able-bodied officer, Kate takes charge, evacuating the crew from the crash site. A mountain warlord captures the Liberty's crew, intending to sell the shuttle and its cargo to the highest bidder. On the world stage, this crisis rapidly escalates. The North Koreans forbid an American search and rescue operation, sending their own troops into the region instead.

North Korea has achieved a breakthrough with nuclear warheads and is about to arm their strategic missiles - weapons that could set the world ablaze. The Echo Six unit commander, Abe Talley, is ordered to take his men across the 38th Parallel. Their mission is to locate and destroy the nukes, as well as their creators. They must enter the heart of the most secretive, repressive, and brutal nation on Earth - and somehow find a way back.

Peace has returned to the Pacific after the Taiwan War, but it doesn’t last. The Korean peninsula erupts in fire and blood, drawing America into a fresh conflict that sees use of some of the world’s deadliest weapons. In the aftermath, Navy fighter pilot Jack Knapp tells a news reporter about his experiences fighting the Korean People’s Army (KPA) and how he helped prevent a nuclear attack that could have destroyed an American city.

Mina is a professional pickpocket and thief for a huge South Korean conglomerate (chaebol) into which she was born. Having brought great shame to the chaebol as a teenager, she is obligated to work as a criminal for them. This chaebol is also a crime syndicate. She desperately wants out of her dangerous and depressing existence. She sees a ray of hope in the character of Sienna who is the complete opposite to her. She becomes obsessed with Sienna to the point she complicates things on a truly horrific scale.

Two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s “economic miracle” in a striking debut novel for readers of Anthony Marra and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. Seoul, 1978. At South Korea’s top university, the nation’s best...

천재적인 피아니스트 백동우는 교통사고로 왼손에 부상을 입지만 상대편 차량의 일가족이 사망하는 참사를 목격한다. 5개월 후, 꿈의 무대로 불리는 카네기홀에 입성하나 교통사고 후유증인 국소성이긴장증이라는 경련 증상이 도져 연주를 망치고 만다.

Jonas Stuyvesant's silver-spoon upbringing has not prepared him for the horrors of war. When Communist North Korea launches a surprise invasion of the South, Jonas finds himself leading his platoon against a well-trained, battle-hardened army. Soviet-made tanks break through the American lines. These are not the pitchfork-wielding peasants he expected. What should have been an easy victory turns into a devastating rout. Jonas and his men begin their retreat down the Peninsula, fighting a rear-guard action.