KELLY is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pusan National University. With democracies around the world under duress, South Korea seems to stand out as an example of resilience.

We Do Not Part by South Korean writer Han Kang asks difficult questions about the troubled history of her nation.

She jumps on a plane to France, planning to regroup in private, but her ex, Henry, turns up with a new girlfriend. His ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol tried to demolish his country’s democracy. In a shocking late-night television address, ...

Find Your Next Book N.Y.C. Literary Guide February Releases ... “We Do Not Part,” revisits a violent chapter in South Korean history. By Lydia Millet Lydia Millet is the author, most recently ...

In 2016, the South Korean novelist Han Kang won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, the first of her novels to be translated into English. The novel, in which a woman who suddenly ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has become the country’s first leader to be indicted, less than two weeks after he was the first to be detained ...

That’s not just about Korean history ... Ms. Han’s Nobel, the first for a South Korean author, has been celebrated like an Olympic feat, with her books selling out, giant banners around ...

The jailed president Yoon Suk Yeol, who had been holed up in his presidential compound for weeks after issuing a martial law decree last month, now faces rebellion charges punishable by the death ...