Korean Literature

A greedy tiger roamed the forest looking for food. One day he came upon a rabbit. But the rabbit conitnued to outsmart the tiger and not get eaten. "Rabbits are dangerous," thought the tiger. "I must warn everyone about them."

North Korea's deadliest weapon is sleeper agent Song Sun Young. Married with children and living the good life in New York City, she has waited seven years to activate the mission she was trained to do: infiltrate America's financial infrastructure. She prays the call from her handlers will never come, because she loves her husband and kids and affluent New York lifestyle. But the call does come. During volatile negotiations between the White House and Pyongyang, Song is hurled back into a reality she had hoped to leave behind forever.

Situated at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, the Yeonnam-dong Smiley Laundromat is a place where the extraordinary stories of ordinary residents unfold. It is already a haven of tranquility and reflection for locals, but when someone leaves a notebook behind, the laundromat becomes a place that brings people together. One by one, customers start jotting down candid diary entries, opening their hearts and inviting acts of kindness from neighbors who were once just faces in the crowd.

Do you want to learn Korean the fast, fun and easy way? And do you want to travel to South Korea and get around like a pro? Then this is the audiobook for you. Learn Korean: A Complete Phrase Compilation for Traveling to South Korea is designed for absolute beginner learners and travelers.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, a "mesmerizing" novel about the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants striving to join Manhattan's inner circle (USA Today). Casey Han is a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous...

This is Innovative language Learning. This Audiobook will take you through the basics of Korean with Basic Bootcamp, All About, and Pronunciation lessons. The five Basic Bootcamp lessons each center on a practical, real-life conversation. At the beginning of the lesson, we'll introduce the background of the conversation. In the fifteen All About lessons, you'll learn all about Korean and Korea.

Being engaged with interesting learning material can be so essential for anybody wishing to learn a new language. Twenty compelling and fun stories in this book will allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to improve your grasp of the wonderful Korean language.

The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States is an exciting piece of "speculative fiction." The novel posits that there was a nuclear attack against the US on March 21, 2020 by North Korea, and that a national bipartisan commission was created to investigate what and how it happened. It's pretty scary stuff.

『오만과 편견』은 18세기 말 잉글랜드 남동부의 한 마을에서 일어난 젊은 남녀의 연애와 결혼 이야기이다. 당시 영국은 가문과 재산 정도에 의해 사회적 위상이 결정되던 계급 사회로, 계급 장벽을 자유로이 넘나드는 낭만적인 연애와 결혼이 거의 불가능했다. 부유한 상류층 신사 피츠윌리엄 다시와 재산이 없는 중산층 숙녀 엘리자베스 베넷은 신분 차이에서 오는 편견과 사회적 장애를 극복하고 건전한 사랑과 이해, 존중하는 마음에 토대를 둔 결혼에 이른다.

Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction—including admirers of Norman Rush's Mating, Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and Peter Matthiessen's At Play in the Fields of the Lord—will be drawn to this astonishingly gripping and...

In this Korean folktale, a greedy merchant sells the shade from his tree to a passing traveler. What he doesn’t realize, however, is just how clever this traveler is! What happens when the merchant’s ploy backfires and the traveler decides to stay in the shade?

ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of My Year Abroad and the highly anticipated A Tender Age In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent...

Short Stories in Korean for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening.

Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend—an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow—comes to claim her at last. Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But beyond these ghosts, Elsa also faces a more earthly fate.

러시아의 문학의 위대한 거장 레프 똘스또이의 장편소설 『안나 까레니나』가 이명현 교수의 번역으로 열린책들에서 출간되었다. 『안나 까레니나』는 똘스또이의 예술적 재능이 한창 절정기에 달했을 때 집필된 작품으로, 『전쟁과 평화』, 『부활』과 더불어 그의 3대 대표작 중 하나로 평가받는 소설이다. 표도르 도스또예프스끼와 토마스 만, 윌리엄 포크너, 블라지미르 나보꼬프 등 세계의 대문호들이 이 소설에 대한 찬사를 아끼지 않았으며, 후대의 주요 작가들의 문학 세계에 지대한 영향을 미친 작품이다. 또한 생생한 감정선과 흥미로운 서사 덕에 각종 영화나 뮤지컬로도 수차례 제작되며 많은 이들의 꾸준한 사랑을 받았다.

Before she was named Nana by the French couple who adopted her as a child, she was Esther Pak, a girl growing up in a Korean orphanage. And before she was Esther Pak, she was Munju, a small child abandoned on the railway tracks in Seoul. Nana has no memories of the first three or four years of...

For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife. Narrated by Sofia Jin...

Embark on an extraordinary voyage through six captivating worlds of folklore and myth. Across more than one hundred and ten hours of immersive storytelling, you’ll witness common threads of wonder that unite us all—no matter how far apart our cultures may be.

When Eugene Kim assembles his three estranged daughters at his deathbed, he means to put them to the test. Vicious and pathetic in equal measure, he wants to test who will abject themselves for his favor—and, more importantly, his fortune. Each isolated and desperate to escape their circumstances, the sisters wrestle with the legacy of their abusive father as they attempt to imagine a future with others—colleagues, lovers, friends, family—as rage and shame courses through their blood.

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-­flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small residential neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.