Author Han Kang (pic), this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke passionately about the process of writing ...

A native of what is now South Korea, Kim spent more than 80 of his 96 years in Japan, where he faced discrimination on two fronts: for being ethnic Korean and later as a sufferer of Hansen’s ...

as he has translated many of the Korean poet Ko Un's poems before. Ko was mentioned in the shortlist numerous times as a ...

Its author, Korean poet Yun Dong-ju (1917–1945), who studied at the university, sent the letter to his friend in 1942. The poem goes on, “People say life is hard to live/ That I can write a ...

The Vietnam Writers Association working in conjunction with writers of the Republic of Korea have published Chung ta co the suot doi cho nhau (We can Wait for Each Other Forever), which features 42 ...

Mr Jang had once composed paeans to Kim Jong Il, North Korea's former ruler. In a new memoir, Mr Jang retraces his conversion from patriotic court poet to the Kim regime to one of its fiercest ...

Mr. Kim Changki, Director, Korea Cultural Centre in Nigeria (KCCN), has urged poets to use their creative writing to inspire humanity for the betterment of society and the preservation of cultural ...