Debut: Season 1, Episode 1 (Red Light, Green Light) A North Korean defector with a heart-wrenching backstory, Kang Sae-byeok joined the games to reunite with her family. Though she initially ...

Squid Game is a South Korean survival thriller, set in a dystopian world written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk. The series revolves around a secret competition where 456 financially struggling ...

Kang Sae-byeok is an admirable character who uses her street smarts to survive for a long time in the games. However, by the end, a serious wound prevents her from defending herself against Sang ...

Like Player 069's wife and so many others, Player 240 met her end while playing Marbles, though rather than competing and losing, Ji-yeong opted to sacrifice herself so that Sae-byeok could survive.

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is blood, but it’s the current of life,” she said. Han Kang in 2016.

Ever since Marvel fired Jonathan Majors, Colman Domingo has been rumored to step into the role of Kang the Conqueror. While speaking with Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast ...

In Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part,” newly translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the narrator visits a friend who is in the hospital after severing the tips of ...

Han Kang's new book "We Do Not Part" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Paik Duhim; book cover courtesy Penguin Random House/Hogarth) Last year, novelist Han Kang became the first Korean writer to ...

Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee.

Joy in Four Chapters,” a dark comedy about Sichuan cuisine featuring “Stranger Eyes” star Lee Kang-Sheng. The lineup marks several directorial debuts, including Indonesian actor Reza ...

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an accident in Seoul, asks her friend Kyungha to travel to her home on ...