Finally, we are travelling to the country of Squid Game, the Oscar-winning movies Paradite, and K-Pop Demon Hunters as well as high school zombie drama All of Us are Dead. This fascinating country with some rough edges is high on culture. No wonder it also has some great book authors. We’ve only started our reading of Korean books and we will take you along for the ride. These are the books to read when travelling to Korea.
This our Korea reading list! Reviews following soon.
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The books from Korea we’ve read so far …
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
The Vegetarian – Han Kang
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop – Hwang Bo-reum
Winter in Sokcho – Elisa Shua Dupasin
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 – Cho Nam-Joo
The Disaster Tourist – Yun Ko-Eun
The Island of Sea Women – Lisa See
And there are still many more books we want to read! We will add more as we go.