We Do Not Part

Han Kang is a South Korean writer born on November 27, 1970, in Gwangju, South Korea, into a literary family—her father is the novelist Han Seung-won. Her family moved to Seoul when she was nine, just before the Gwangju Uprising, an event that profoundly influenced her writing. She graduated from Yonsei University in 1993 with a degree in Korean language and literature and began her literary career in the early 1990s. Read more →