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

Here's more translated works available on overdrive!

Mentioned:
Kim Young Ha
- Black Flower
- I Have The Right to Destroy Myself
- Your Republic Is Calling You
- I Can Hear Your Voice
Sunmi Hwang
- The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
Cho Nam Ju
- Kim Jiyoung Born 1982
Sang Young Park
- Love in the Big City
Bora Chung
- Cursed Bunny
Choi Eunyoung
- Shoko's Smile
Han Gang
- Vegetarian
- Human Acts
Bae Myunghoon
- Tower
others~
Shin Kyungsook
- Violets
- The Court Dancer
- Please Look After Mom
Hwang Sok Young
- At Dusk
Lee Hyoseok
- Endless Blue Sky
Lee Soho
- Cat Calling
Park Wan-Suh

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

[lovemexicanfood]

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

[mariri-]

[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 🥰

[fernandafuentes]

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!

[IrisInFilm]

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.

[ddangs]

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

[kitfash]

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.

[detektiveconanfreak]

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.

[tapiocapress]

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

[Moniaar_]

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!!

[alaaazzam]

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 💘💘

[mattkean]

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

[FrugalOverFifty]

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.

[zynpkrdg]

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

[yelenskareads]

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.😭

[bluecandies]

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

[DogWhoChasedCHANELHoodie]

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

[dead_poet]

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!

[VirMedina]

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!

[solpluvia]

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.

[felicityyoon]

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.