With a Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s ‘The 3 Body Problem’ now streaming, be looking for more books that hit the same hard sci-fi or Chinese speculative fiction notes.
Korean literature began as little seeds blown by the wind and carried across the world by devoted literary agents, talented translators, editors and publishers, none of whom were familiar with Korean writing even a decade ago. They started to give platforms and opportunities to authors who grew steadily in popularity, and today, the hunger for Korean books in all genres is limitless. There is a universality to the best of Korean books, and that is what makes them so appealing to everyone in the world. They are exotic as well as familiar to us.
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