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I have started with vegetarian right now

I'm so moved and impressed with the rapid, intelligent response by the Korean people. I wish there were more RUclips videos explaining and showing everything they did in English. I think it's important and instructive. Thx for your video.

I wish you were my neighbour

Hi! I have questions about We Do Not Part. I finished Polish translation and I don't understand two moments from the last part. Maybe you can help me. Kyŏng-ha before leaving house with In-sŏn can see something in front of the wardrobe that shines like mercury. What could be that? In the forest In-sŏn gave Kyŏng-ha something that looked like a flower bud with a red spot. What was that? The book was a great experience for me and I am glad I read it. I probably did not notice everything, but these two moments are the biggest mystery to me. Can you explain their meaning? Thanks in advance if someone replies.

Those are the books that I pick up first. The covers are so imaginative. They peak my interest.

Almond is in my TBR!

OOT: could you tell me where do you get your book shelves from? Thanks for the overview of Han Kang‘s books👍

if i could "re-tweet" youtube videos I would repost this. i recently found your channel through your han kang vids, and I'm so excited to follow you. your content is intelligent, tastefully curated, and easily digestible. thank you.

Hello, I am currently in Sejong Intermediate 3A and I want to be a Korean - English Literary Translator. So I really want to know from where to start. I am already practicing translation by my own. I have tried to apply for translating jobs but they require experience which I don't have. Can I get some help regarding this?

Doesn't Yoon have a drinking problem? This honestly seems like a hasty decision made in the fugue of drunkenness

The fact that there were KSEALs there is terrifying. With 40,000$ NVGs, custom rifles and kitted out is crazy

Thanks, Jinwoo! She's an amazing writer. I'm so glad that she was the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. And what a wonderful presentation of her works. Greetings from Copenhagen!

This was incredibly clear and informative. Thank you for your input. I learned a lot and appreciate your insight.

Well said! I was also deeply frustrated by the entire situation. Hopefully, we can turn this crisis into an opportunity for people to realize how evil can exploit our deep political, generational, and gender divisions, as well as the blind hatred we hold toward one another

i found ur content on tiktok a lil less than one month ago, u are great

Hello! My first encounter with Han Kang is through her book Greek Lessons followed by the White Book. Stumbled upon your channel while looking into which to read first, The Vegetarian or Human Acts. Your insights are very helpful. Thanks for the recommendation. 😊

The bad sex are soo sooo awful 😂

대학교 수업에서 이 영상으로 진도나가고 있어요 ㅎㅋㅋㅋ 좋은 리뷰 감사합니다!

A lot of books need a lot of "world knowledge" bits and pieces you tend to pick up as you accumulate "years lived". Reading, in my opinion, needs to tie in with history and politics (better yet: both) because this is what usually informs the content. - Though it is a bit of a difficult thing; by reading these books you learn about their historical and political background - but in order to really be able to read them you need to know their historical and political background. The way testing on reading works is, either way, bs though. Reading books (and some other things too) just help you build focus-stamina - the whole thing about having to test certain things and not just staying with a novel for a while and talk about what's in there and what might be strange or what kind of ideas are in there and what might have informed those ideas is what kills reading - and more importantly: critical thinking. The most fun I had was in an AP class that combined history class and literature class; usually we'd talk about a certain historical context with all the names and dates and the greater context and whatnot --- and then read something from around that time and being able to pick up on all kinds of references that would've been considered "common knowledge" at the time of writing was something that I really enjoyed; things made sense. --- In regular literature class we just picked up some old book and, tbh, I don't know, were just expected to know that context? Sure, that was usually contemporary but teenagers don't have the contemporary knowledge needed to really understand simply because they haven't spent enough time living yet.

I really loved Dallerguts Dream Department Store, so unique, emotional and fascinating.

im watching this video while taking notes of the books on your shelves😆

Lets us make it crystal clear: if parents dont read, if books are not easily available at home. if your parents did not read to you then most likely the kids will not enjoy reading. Reading is like swimming if you want to do it with the grace of a penguin then you need hundred of hours of practice. If kids sont read hundreds of books then they will never do it with ease

Thank you for recommending Almond. I'm about 2 hours of reading in and I can't put it down . Much love from Australia

How you define family doctor? Were I live we have like, general doctors, who can help both kids and adults, but kids usually go to paediatricians since they specialise in kids. Is it something rare?

I read almond, it is absolutely amazing book. Highly recommend to read. It's one of those books you still think about after you finish reading it.

I just found your channel today. I have subscribed. Love the books you talked about. Please continue making videos 😊

I guess that's why I haven't written anything in a long while. I don't have a single person around me that shows interest in me as writer. Nobody ever asks how I'm doing with my stories. Nobody asks what's the last thing I came up with or if I'm planning something new. Nothing.😢❤

Love your content on here and tiktok

I recently read almond and it's amazing! Beautifully written and absolutely good. Please make more videos like these, I'm looking forward to more korean literature recommendation videos! I'm diving into this literature world coz it seems so good! Your videos are absolutely helpful

Absolutely loved this video!!!!! You have explained it really well. I just completed vegetarian and i was looking forward to more of han kang's books, and this video came at perfect time! Vegetarian was really traumatic for me, left me with endless pain and agony! I just can't get over it! It was too much for me to handle! I'm looking forward to the white book! It's going to be my next read! Would you like to recommend any other korean author?

Hey, thank you so much for your videos! I loved to see you introduce a new author and their works. Keep it going!

Watching this after Han Kang won a Nobel Prize for Literature; it's awesome that you had her on your radar before then. I can't wait to read Human Acts.

I always had a complicated relationship with school in general and reading in particular. I was a Gifted Kid TM but I also had undiagnosed adhd and depression. So until grade 10 or so I didn’t have to try at all academically and then all of a sudden I didn’t know how to intuit calculus and failed it. I never did learn how to study. My report cards were no longer all A’s but a very comical splattering of A+s and Fs. When I was 10-12 or so I’d just stay home and read through my family’s books. Aristotle and Aurelius and giant multi-tome histories. And so I was always able to pretend to be much more competent than I was. In reality (and this is still true at 33) there are massive gaping holes in my understanding of things interspersed with a few hyper competencies in subjects of interest. I escaped into books like some of my peers escaped into the social world or substance abuse or video games. I couldn’t have designed a more pro-book circumstance for young me and yet, I definitely read far less now that smart phones are mandatory. I’ve read zero full books this year. My depression has been resurgent but that never used to be an obstacle. All that just to say, growing up now, with all the tech, the weaker social trust, the breakdown of families and communities, the general fear and anxiety of the hyper connected world. I don’t blame young people at all for not reading. It’s a major loss for everyone, of course, and the corporations have known how to mitigate the worst of excesses in their algorithms and simply choose not to. It’s a depressing circumstance and a difficult world to face with courage in one’s heart. Anyway, thanks for making a video on this subject, and thanks for giving a damn about kids and books. I hope this video blows up and starts a conversation.

Schools really do everything to kills the joy of reading. TL;DR: How my teachers demotivated us from reading on national reading month. I still remember when my school wanted to inculcate a reading habit and started a national reading month. To foster the environment, they asked all of us to write 200 word essay on what type of genres we wanted to read and why? I wrote my love for mystery and Sci-fi, how I would like to read and analyze Da Vine Code (13 year old me thought that was peak lit). Similarly my classmates also poured their heart on what they would love to read. The teachers instead of guiding us in our preferred genres, graded our papers. They told since I got a C - I will not have the capacity to read sci-fi and should stick to simple comedies. I remember a lot of my classmates feeling absolutely dejected, since the teachers made them feel that lacked the comprehension to read their fav book. So by the end of the month, most of us did not read any book.

Great counterargument with interesting points. Definite food for thought. Thank you.

Excellent video. I’ve read two and I either placed holds or got the audiobooks from my library - I’ll be hearing the other three very soon. Thank you so much for the recommendations.

I love your argument here. As someone with younger kids (not yet in high school) who wants to foster a love of reading in our family, I absolutely agree with you that all reading is good reading. Kids and adults who feel confident enjoying books will be more likely to sit down and read for hours, and that reading muscle will be strengthened over time.

Kitty! ❤️🐾

Thanks for your valuable guidance I am reading Human Acts and this is my first introduction to Han Kang

Yes! As someone who earned overpriced degrees in comparative lit and creative writing I wondered if I was going crazy. Obviously “classics” and “good literature” are always discussed in literature specific classes, but these classes almost always take into account subjectivity. There will always be elitists, but almost no one who actually studies literature or writing would condemn something like Percy Jackson as “not literature.” How a text is read is just as important as the text itself. For one to condemn a certain genre of literature feels like they’re missing the point of reading. I recently saw one woman here on RUclips say that a solution would be to have children stop short form content in every form but especially written, strip them of their internet privileges, and have students read more novels-- as if all novels are good and all short form reading is bad. By this logic 50 Shades of Grey should be studied alongside Middlemarch and short stories and poetry would not be valid areas of study. I’m so frustrated with all of this alarmist rhetoric of “the children aren’t reading.” Not everyone is going to take to the Iliad or Shakespeare in high school. Reading and analyzing“fun” books like Percy Jackson could be a viable solution to the way young people see literature. They’re not going to take to something they see as a chore.

What an abrupt end to the video, otherwise good video

this video is amazing and puts into words exactly how i’ve felt about reading in school!

My left ear is lonely.

And also the growing problem of how we teach a critical understanding of what we do read.

the show made me cry every episode did you watch it yet? i'm going to pick up the book too i cant let go

the audio in the video only plays in one ear of my headphones :(

I can't speak for public schools in the US, but my school made us read extremely boring texts, like Hawthorne and Coleridge... And we had to annotate every single line basically. You can see why many people associated it with being a chore. Thankfully i saw the merit in reading and moved past the highschool bs.

I finished college a couple of years ago. Tbh I don't think I had the attention span nor the motivation to read 'intellectual lit'. Now I read over 30 books per year (not that I'm counting), mostly less commercial texts, and looking back I think not doing this in college was the right thing because I would've been miserable.

Wow I can’t even remember how I ended up subscribing to you but I’m so glad I did for this video alone. I never read a single book in grade school because quite honestly none of the ones on the syllabus were marketed any better than the Bible. I’m 40 and started reading for enjoyment three years ago. I couldn’t believe how entertaining and insightful Catcher in the a Rye is. I also recently fell in love with To Kill a MB, lonesome dove, boys life, etc. I think the one book that changed the way I thought about literature was Less Than Zero. The concept that the structure of a sentence (or lack thereof) could enhance the vibe of the story being told honestly blew my mind. I didn’t feel good after reading it, but that was so intriguing.