Sunmi Hwang’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly Is A Rather Depressing Read

We finally read the modern classic in South Korea's literature - Sunmi Hwang's novella meets fable The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. Here is our review of it. This short novel has been on my TBR list for way too long. During the weekend we had a massive storm happening here which resulted in…

June Hur’s The Red Palace Is A Fun Historical Mystery Set In Joseon Era

One of my most anticipated 2022 releases was published in January and we are finally bringing you our review of June Hur's Joseon mystery book The Red Palace today. While this is my first June Hur book, it's kind of impossible to miss this name in my Goodreads circles considering that her 2020 The Silence…

Bad Buddy Sets The Bar High For BLs

GMMTV's Bad Buddy aired throughout the last few months of 2021 and the first month of 2022, staring Nanon Korapat Kirdpan and Ohm Pawat Chittsawangdee the Thai drama was highly anticipated and completely blew us away. So,... as you know I try to keep the blog Korea entertainment based and not let my obsession with…

Won-pyung Sohn’s Almond Is The Most Checked-Out South Korean Book of 2020 And For A Reason

First published back in 2017, Almond gathered positive reviews and reactions regarding the portrayal of a young boy dealing with Alexithymia, but the book really experienced a boom last year with BTS reading it, especially in South Korea itself. I am finally back with another book review after exactly a year (you can read the…

Han Kang’s The Vegetarian is somewhat realistic, but mostly just bloody and animalistic

First published back in 2007, Han Kang's The Vegetarian is still quite the talk of the town with her unusual and quite vivid approach to life, marriage, and, as the title says, eating meat. It has since 2007 been translated into twenty-three languages. Following my review of Han Kang's incredible Human Acts, here is my…

BOOK REVIEW: How many times will we be faced with struggle for justice – Human Acts

Even though she is best known for her controversial novel Vegetarian (which I might end up reviewing sometime), Han Kang's strongest release for me is her incredible, historical based novel Human Acts. It's raw, unique as it approaches the plot from a 2nd POV and frustrating in all the ways this world is. I was…

BOOK REVIEW: Feminism will always be needed, as long as it still angers men – Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

I've read a few books by South Korean authors I had on my to read list this year and Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 was one of, if not the best one. It was only when I started reading it that I realized that this was the book male netizens got mad over Red Velvet's Irene…

BOOK REVIEW: Shine by Jessica Jung

Welcome to our very first book review! These won't be on the regular but since this book is one written by a K-Pop star about K-Pop it seemed to be only right to post on here about it. And there is so much buzz going on about this book by Jessica that when I had…