books by my favorite korean authors ✨ namjoon and my husband's recommendations lol

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  • Опубликовано: 27 янв 2025

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  • @caricanread
    @caricanread  2 года назад +18

    sorry this vid took so long :')
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    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 года назад

      Currygom is really good, lik she is an authotr and does a webtoon, kubera, that is great, and gets, so engaging and feels and great twist and ,. its great. And once the pedestals fall it another level. (and i reccomand fantranslations). It also has good but sad romance.
      She wrote the finite an actual book in the universe too.
      It wa planned as bok before becoming a webcomic, the first one imean kubera, the last god.

  • @lovemexicanfood
    @lovemexicanfood 2 года назад +223

    Cari: this book is very dark
    Also Cari: perfect place to store a romantic momento
    😂😂

  • @fernandafuentes6858
    @fernandafuentes6858 2 года назад +54

    I'm mexican, born, raised and still living in mexico and I've never heard about the korea-mexican history so thanks for the recommendation I'll definitely will be checking out black flowers!

    • @MsLovemar
      @MsLovemar Год назад

      cause it is FICTION that never happened ...it could have been Panemm insted of Mexico...

    • @katiaduran5146
      @katiaduran5146 5 месяцев назад +4

      Well, the particular story and characters are fiction but the immigration of Koreans to Mexico is real. I live in Yucantan peninsula. There is even a memorial site and a museum in Merida about it.

  • @mariri-510
    @mariri-510 2 года назад +53

    [about Shoko's Smile] "maybe don't read it in public while it's the first day of your period and you're super emotional". maybe if i had known THIS BEFORE DOING EXACTLY THAT . because i absolutely loved it, i actually read it while in korea back in july and bought myself a korean copy (i can't read it yet but someday!), but i made it my little book for reading while coffee hopping when i was on my period and i cried in public an embarrassing amount of times, and what's more embarrassing is that i kept telling myself "maybe the next story won't make me cry" and it happened all over again.
    haven't read most of these recs so adding them to my list now 🥰

  • @IrisInFilm
    @IrisInFilm 2 года назад +25

    Human Acts is the best book I've read so far this year. It was so heartbreaking, but beautiful. Also a book I wouldn't recommend reading in public, I remember crying my eyes out in Coffee Bean and disturbing all the people working and studying while reading it.

  • @kitfash
    @kitfash 2 года назад +60

    I've been waiting for this one. Thank you for giving us this list to start reading Korean authors. I really appreciate the hard work you put in every video.

  • @tapiocapress
    @tapiocapress Год назад +2

    Going to Korea next week and binging Cari's videos!!

  • @FrugalOverFifty
    @FrugalOverFifty 2 года назад +2

    Love that you mentioned Tower - it's one of my favorite books. I love to reread it and then pick out favorite stories to reread again. My only quibble with it is that I want more stories in this world. I love sci-fi and I love how cheeky but heartfelt it is.

  • @dead_poet143
    @dead_poet143 2 года назад +9

    I have been looking for new/different translated works to read and this video was extremely helpful!! Human Acts is one of my favorites because of its interesting 2nd person point of view. Sending love!

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  2 года назад

      yessss!!!

    • @dead_poet143
      @dead_poet143 2 года назад

      @@caricanread If you are interested in Chinese historical translated works, I highly recommend Blazac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Siji. It is a beautiful story about love, friendship, and re-education during the Chinese Communist Revolution.

    • @felicityyoon2612
      @felicityyoon2612 2 года назад

      Human Acts is also one of my favorites too, and I love Han Kang's writing style

  • @Moniaar_
    @Moniaar_ 2 года назад +11

    She kept promising us about this video for so long i can't believe it. it's finally out😭💓💓I'm on my way home after an exam and this is the best treat EVER!!

  • @ddangs74
    @ddangs74 Год назад +7

    영어로 번역된 한국소설이 이렇게 많은지 몰랐네요... 한국적인 감정이 이해가 된다는게 놀랍네요.... 한국소설이 좋은것들이 많아서 번역이 많이 되었으면 좋겠네요.... 최고입니다....

  • @zynpkrdg
    @zynpkrdg 2 года назад +41

    Yeesssss i've been waiting for this one! I love japanese and korean literature! Great as always, Cari!

  • @tanatano8401
    @tanatano8401 2 года назад +3

    your Namjoon was why i picked up Human Acts! it was such a great read, thank you for your recs always :)

  • @alaaazzam9851
    @alaaazzam9851 2 года назад +29

    YAAAS I've been waiting for this video!😍 I just love how you talk about these books in the most engaging way. ♥ I recently read Kim Ji Young Born in 1982 and it easily became one of my favorite books. Before reading this book, and being an Egyptian woman, I never thought how much I'd relate to a novel inspired from what Korean women go through. I guess as women we're all in this together no matter where we're from. Intergenerational traumas because of misogyny, sexism in the workplace, victim blaming when Ji Young was stalked, cameras hidden in toilets, everything in this book was so real it made me want to cry more than once. I would definitely recommend the movie because the acting was great. The main difference is that I feel the movie ended on a more hopeful note than the book. I just finished The Plotters by Kim Un Su and I LOVED it. Somebody make it into a kdrama because it definitely has that vibe. I'm so excited because Kim Un Su is coming to Egypt this week to discuss the novel and there will be a Korean literature book fair so I hope I can find some of the books you talked about because they all seem interesting 💘💘

  • @detektiveconanfreak
    @detektiveconanfreak 2 года назад +15

    Choi Eunyoung is also one of my favorite Korean Authors and she is such a sweet person too! We once had a reading session with her for my uni degree because we translated some of her work for one of our translation classes (I think the reading was on Xin Chào, Xin Chào but the course that semester was translating 언니, 나의 작은, 순애 언니 (I actually don't know the english title lol but it's also in Shoko's Smile) and it was one of the most pleasant reading sessions we ever had.
    Also I don't know if you might have already read it, but I can only recommend this anthology of various Korean sci-fi authors called "Readymade Bodhisattva"! Some insanely thought provoking stories in there, especially the title story, but also the stories by Djuna and Jeong Soyeon!! I feel like it's an amazing way to get introduced to new authors and I have falled in love with so many that are featured in it.

  • @bluecandies
    @bluecandies 2 года назад +10

    Omg please make one of your favourite Japanese authors too I’m so curious to see what you compile

  • @nazifapromi3186
    @nazifapromi3186 2 года назад +12

    We need a cari can knit 😂 that yarns a nice shade of green

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  2 года назад +3

      ah in the background?! yes! i used to to crochet a bag but i have a lot left over^^

  • @ellieskouros2174
    @ellieskouros2174 2 года назад +6

    ooh so excited for this!!! i've been super interested in reading japanese lit (before the coffee gets cold & lonely castle in the mirror are both top books on my tbr) so i can't wait to hear about all these korean books 💖✨

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  2 года назад +1

      yes i still need to read lonely castle in the mirror!

    • @trivya871
      @trivya871 2 года назад +1

      before the coffee gets cold is such brilliant and emotional book. it was my first japanese lit book and it was amazing~ can't wait to dive into more of japanese translated books!
      p.s. added lonely castle in the mirror to my own tbr hehe

  • @Siberianeel
    @Siberianeel 2 года назад +10

    Yes!! I've been so into Korean lit lately, and now you upload this video! Thank you!

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  2 года назад +2

      sooo much has been translated just in the past few years, i have so much to catch up on hehehe

  • @DogWhoChasedCHANELHoodie
    @DogWhoChasedCHANELHoodie Год назад +1

    Amazing authors! Lost in the pages of good books by these authors🤗

  • @trayvixk4642
    @trayvixk4642 2 года назад +1

    This is so perfect. I regularly read diverse authors and translated works but there's not a lot of recommendations from big booktubers. Gonna add these to my TBR.

  • @mattkean1128
    @mattkean1128 2 года назад +37

    Korean movies are so great, I should be reading more Korean novels.

  • @felicityyoon2612
    @felicityyoon2612 2 года назад +4

    I was reading Human Acts when we were also having similar situation in Myanmar too. It was a suffocating experience for me. Thanks Cari for introducing different other Korean author's and Genres.

  • @VirMedina
    @VirMedina Год назад +1

    Thank you for talking about Korean literature, as it rarely gets talked about. If you'd like to talk about what gets translated into English and what doesn't, why etc. and how literature is perceived in Korea, I'd interested in that discussion!

  • @sokim3333
    @sokim3333 2 года назад +2

    Omg you are doing korean books. A million thanks to you. ;) love ya

  • @moodreadsandhotcoffee
    @moodreadsandhotcoffee 2 месяца назад

    I am VERY new to Korean literature, and I am so excited with what I have read thus far. I have many new ones on my list now with this video :)

  • @FogCityASMR
    @FogCityASMR 2 года назад +5

    If you ever make to Mexicali(a City south from Ensenada) there is an underground chinatown. :) Like literally underground. I highly recommend looking it up. I grew up in Tijuana and Ensenada and I had a LOT of Chinese and Japanese friends and my maternal grandma is part Korean. HER grandma left Korea Around WW1 and ended in Guerrero which is south from the US border. I grew up thinking some products and food I ate were Mexican but they were actually Asian. xD

  • @AnEmbarrassmentofBooks
    @AnEmbarrassmentofBooks 2 года назад +3

    Great list - I’d like to add thriller writer Jeong You-Jeong. The Good Son is very dark but one of my favorite books despite that (I don’t usually read really dark books). She also another thriller, Seven Years of Darkness, that I haven’t read yet.
    I love that you called out that only certain types of books are generally translated into English - As a voracious reader, I hate that there are so many amazing books I’ll never be able to read because I can only read in English.

  • @yelenskareads
    @yelenskareads 2 года назад +8

    I agree that KIM Young-ha is incredible 👌 How could someone find Black Flower boring? The books is beautifully written, and most of all heartbreaking.😭

  • @rixanoz
    @rixanoz 2 года назад +12

    Definitely enriched my tbr

  • @hyouna2739
    @hyouna2739 2 года назад +3

    I've been watching this channel and other yours for a long time. And it's literally my first time to comment here. I'm so happy to watch this video. Since I'm 아줌마 loving reading books in Korea.
    Someday, I hope Korean literature will become as popular as K-pop and K-dramas.

  • @lilmeowmeow667
    @lilmeowmeow667 2 года назад +3

    I love your book videos so much they're so comfy

  • @nmariette2948
    @nmariette2948 2 года назад +1

    I live in Korea as well! It’s so nice to find someone else who lives here who loves books. 😊

  • @nyxqueenofshadows
    @nyxqueenofshadows 2 года назад

    love making my tbr pile even longer 😂 but seriously, korean literature is smth i know next to nothing about, so i'm looking forward to trying these out!

  • @황지영-e4k
    @황지영-e4k 2 года назад +2

    You definitely need to try 김초엽's books. I'm not sure whether it is translated or not but her books are amazing!

  • @solpluvia
    @solpluvia 2 года назад +4

    I strongly recommend the story of Mr. Han by Hwang Sok yong! It talks about the time after the korean war and is utterly devastating and soul crushing - but important work nontheless because it shows how cruel and random discrimination, war etc is.

  • @carmenpe9
    @carmenpe9 3 месяца назад

    Great review of so many good books translated from Korean!

  • @betinababbles249
    @betinababbles249 2 года назад +1

    Ahh! So Jelly you’re going to see McR! Have so much fun and be safe!! ❤❤

  • @vcackermanwrites
    @vcackermanwrites 2 года назад +1

    7:05 That was a cute surprise.

  • @bluecandies
    @bluecandies 2 года назад +3

    Also! I was totally expecting you to talk about Jung Young Moon

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  2 года назад +3

      ah! thats the other one i have from the korean literature library! i have the collection called A Most Ambiguous Sunday by him!

    • @bluecandies
      @bluecandies 2 года назад

      @@caricanread I’ll have to check it out! I remember you mentioning him a long time ago, which struck a chord with me because I came across his work many years ago, very serendipitously actually, with Vaseline Buddha

  • @exoforlifex5847
    @exoforlifex5847 2 года назад

    I've seen the movie and I can definitely recommend it (to you)! I think it's very well made and I might even prefer it to the book? It has a slight sliver of hope at the end, which the book doesn't. That was refreshing to see and healed my heart a bit

  • @Lia_Lee
    @Lia_Lee 2 года назад +2

    a senior of mine recently recommended the animated movie adaptation ("leafie, a hen into the wild") of hwang sunmi's book to me! it's supposedly a great (and very sad) movie (when she shows it to her students, she observes their reactions instead of watching the film so she can see the waterworks lol)

  • @mnlxlover00
    @mnlxlover00 2 года назад +6

    Wow, LOVE this ida for a video, Cari... I've always wanted to get into reading from more Korean authors, so now I'll have this video for reference haha! 💗Also, happy first day of fall!! 🍁🥂

  • @tamlovestea
    @tamlovestea 2 года назад +2

    Human Acts by Han Kang haunts me to this day.

  • @karinanieblas3677
    @karinanieblas3677 2 года назад +2

    I have been waiting this video for so long 💞 THANK YOU

  • @theblueiMe
    @theblueiMe 2 года назад

    Cari's videos mark the friday for me

  • @irdinazulkeffli4955
    @irdinazulkeffli4955 2 года назад

    absolutely loving the recommendations!

  • @NatokaS.
    @NatokaS. 2 года назад +1

    I just recently started reading korean books. I've read The Vegetarian and I didn't really vibe with it, it was a bit too surreal for me at times. But then I read Human acts in one sitting and oh my god. It hit me so hard, even though I don't know anything about the historical background. After I put the book down I just sat there.

  • @yelenskareads
    @yelenskareads 2 года назад +2

    Cariiiii, have you read 몽길 언니? I read it last summer because it got translated into French for the first time. It's a classic middle grade that Koreans read very young at school apparently. And it is extraordinary. Seriously, read it ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @helensmith3140
    @helensmith3140 2 года назад +1

    Cari you should read 'Nobody writes back' by Jang Eun Jin it gave me big Murakami vibes!

  • @youwsernayme
    @youwsernayme Год назад

    i recently read mina by kim sagwa and i really recommend that one! i liked the writing and the story is just 😳😳😳😳

  • @pa5227
    @pa5227 Год назад

    5:17 didnt something very similar happen in korea pretty recently? the purple islands thing

  • @KathyDubs
    @KathyDubs 2 года назад +2

    I recently read Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun and really liked it!

  • @sabrihaamin4043
    @sabrihaamin4043 2 года назад

    god i love that title

  • @kiranreader
    @kiranreader 2 года назад

    love this!! been waiting on this list :)

  • @kernamalia4335
    @kernamalia4335 2 года назад

    Hi Cari, i just read the hen who dreamed she could fly. It's on my tbr for such long time, and suddenly you recomended it to me exactly when i have no cr book. It' a magically how the book came to me with the right time! Thank you for bring this to me 😁 oh! And after i read that, i realized that i have the other book from the same author. The title is ' the dog who dared to dream'
    Just try it, please. You have Loui and i thought you will be like it 😀

  • @aidarodriguez6721
    @aidarodriguez6721 2 года назад +4

    i'm form mexico and i've never heard about that part with korean history

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  2 года назад +4

      yeah it seems not super well known! you can read a lil via wiki here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Mexico

  • @Tinyleslie
    @Tinyleslie 2 года назад

    Omg I’m so gonna read the black flower!!!!

  • @marenhumblebee2736
    @marenhumblebee2736 2 года назад

    Thanx for this video, many interesting new titles! I am def going to check some of those out!! I have already read born in 1982, cause I was born in 1983 and it felt close to home ^^. But it was difficult for me to enjoy it. I felt sorry for her, but also the story didn't really go anywhere.

  • @SantReads
    @SantReads 2 года назад

    omg so many amazing books.

  • @andreeapopa7317
    @andreeapopa7317 2 года назад

    thank you very much for this video! :*

  • @jamesdakrn
    @jamesdakrn 2 года назад

    Human Acts is such a haunting read
    I read it actually first in English for a class I took in college for easy credits as a Korean speaker, and then read it again in Korean (advantages of being bilingual I guess lol)
    Deborah Smith did an amazing, amazing job of translating Han Kang's Korean prose into English. My god, it's one thing to read the historical accounts like 죽음을 넘어 시대의 어둠을 넘어 (edited by Hwang Seok Young, published in 1985 in the "underground" and promptly banned. The galls on these men and women to publish these at the height of the Chun dictatorship my god), but reading in Han Kang's prose gave it like a fever dream kind of quality to it, hauntingly surreal.
    I still think about this line from time to time whenever I see the news like finding the DNA matches for Gwangju victims in cemeteries that hold bodies of homeless people: "당신의 장례식을 치루지 못해 내 삶이 장례식이 되었습니다" ( “After you died I couldn't hold a funeral, so my life became a funeral.")
    Btw if you're interested in the history as told by the activists themselves in Gwangju I do highly recommend "죽음을 넘어 시대의 어둠을 넘어" but it really also is a harrowing read, I had to put the book down a few times while reading it in an airplane bc it was such a harrowing read while I was on a flight for my college reunion where we'd be just acting like degenerates and didn't want to be depressed when I landed lol

  • @komalchandak3252
    @komalchandak3252 4 месяца назад

    Hello, I want to read "those who read hearts of evil" book by kwon IL Jung but I couldn't find it anywhere. So can you tell where I can find this in English?

  • @TaYLoRBReaKouT
    @TaYLoRBReaKouT Год назад

    Wow without realizing and seeing this video I have read almost all these books😂

  • @yarmoni
    @yarmoni 2 года назад

    excited for this one

  • @nadiajupiter8340
    @nadiajupiter8340 2 года назад

    Cari bestie I need you to do a video explaining the full Percy Jackson series before the show comes out please I need to know what I’m getting into

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  2 года назад

      bestie i need to READ the percy jackson series hahahhaha

  • @faitharu
    @faitharu 2 года назад +1

    I am surprised I read most of the apart from Shoko's smile and Cursed Bunny.

  • @amyhonnig1223
    @amyhonnig1223 2 года назад

    This is great!! 🎉

  • @efkjfhjehfjfhwe
    @efkjfhjehfjfhwe Год назад

    Could you pls make a Japanese version? Thank u for all of ur Korean recommendations tho ✨🫀

  • @lilac1204
    @lilac1204 2 года назад

    Petition for a meetup in USA time 🎉

  • @ry651
    @ry651 2 года назад

    My Chemical Romance ....they are great. 😉🤘🏻 Nice video I will look on the internet for some of these books.

  • @lauralila
    @lauralila 2 года назад

    Have you read Lucinda Riley’s the Seven sisters series?

  • @jdms7051
    @jdms7051 Год назад

    Hello i know this is not related but can you try, if possible, Seventeen's book recommendations? They are a wonderful group and several memebrs love to read. Most especially Wonwoo :)

  • @nodoubt015
    @nodoubt015 2 года назад +1

    You look like Amy Adams in Enchanted😊

  • @colourless6312
    @colourless6312 2 года назад

    A very genuine question right here. I hope I worded this question well. Since that translated books are technically rewritten for another language, how far/valid(?) it is to say "I love her writing, the writing is beautiful" while referring to the original author? (emphasized: writing style, not idea/concept of the story).
    I'm know for sure translators are supposed to give their best to keep the vibes and voice colours of the original authors. But I would like to know the opinions from others, bc I personally feel a bit weird to claim I like the writing style when it is in fact was a translation work of someone's else

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  2 года назад +2

      thats actually a super interesting question because i just finished reading babel and it was all about translation and the choices/arguments surrounding translating! especially for literature, most translators work really hard to capture the same essence, structure, and pacing of each sentence but of course it isnt perfect - thats why its my dream to be able to read these books in korean one day!

  • @nadashaker6037
    @nadashaker6037 2 года назад

    Can you put an Arabic translation? Please 💜

  • @WangxianFF7
    @WangxianFF7 2 года назад

    I've just recently found your channel through the ACOTAR videos! I was just wondering, have you ever read MXTX's books?

  • @msmith6617
    @msmith6617 Год назад

    where do you go in korea to buy these english translated books. i got here recently and i've been struggling

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  Год назад +1

      Kyobo books!

    • @msmith6617
      @msmith6617 Год назад

      @@caricanread what?! i’ve tried so many kyobo book stores and i haven’t seen any of these titles. always western authors

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  Год назад +1

      Try shinonhyeon or gwanghwamun! they have tables and tables full in the english section

    • @msmith6617
      @msmith6617 11 месяцев назад

      @@caricanread Ahhhh thank you!!!

  • @summersnow30
    @summersnow30 2 года назад +3

    I bumped into Cari's channels because of 'that Namjoon's books video'. So, this video had me smiling and excited. I wish fellow bts armys can find her and get into readng and 'namjooning'. Love her aesthetic and reading vlogs

  • @marenhumblebee2736
    @marenhumblebee2736 2 года назад

    So IF I HAD YOUR FACE and BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND were not originally written in Korean and then translated? I thought you were going to talk about those.

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  2 года назад +3

      Frances Ha is Korean-American (lived in US most of her life) and Juhea Kim is also Korean-American (still lives there)

    • @marenhumblebee2736
      @marenhumblebee2736 2 года назад

      @@caricanread I see, thank you ❤️

    • @marenhumblebee2736
      @marenhumblebee2736 2 года назад +4

      @@caricanread oh ... maybe you can one day make a video about Korean-Insert Other Nationality authors, who write/publish in English, too? Cause why not and you already read these two books! So half way there maybe 😀😃😄

  • @u140550
    @u140550 Год назад

    Ok I just found your channel, and I don’t expect you to reply; but please give us more AAPI/Asian book authors/authoress.

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  Год назад

      you should check my monthly wrap ups! i live in korea so i read korean books quite often and talk about them :)

    • @u140550
      @u140550 Год назад

      @@caricanread I hope you’ll look at more than just Korean books, but that’s great to know!!! I think as of right now you’re the only booktuber that isn’t Asian talking about books by Asians, and it makes me happy to see it!!! Definitely a new subscriber!!!

    • @u140550
      @u140550 Год назад

      Also your Korean in saying their names is so good!!! Again thank you for the Asian representation!!

  • @CandyThePuppy
    @CandyThePuppy 2 года назад

    1718 Heh.. get it? ...Beause the cover looks like a face...

  • @MsLovemar
    @MsLovemar Год назад

    you said it is historical FICTION and you living in CA next to the mexican border and you never heard about this part of corean history. FICTION is the key word

    • @caricanread
      @caricanread  Год назад +2

      I dont think you know what historical fiction means lmfao google is free!