Action should have been taken against the Education Minister for the paper leak. For the student who lost his life due to the governmentโs failure.
But in New India, action is being taken against the Cockroach Janta Party for demanding accountability.
[The 46th Anniversary of the May 18 Democratization Movement]
Today marks the 46th anniversary of the May 18 Democratization Movement.
The freedoms and rights we enjoy today are rooted in the courage and sacrifice of that day.
Information on the original works and translations of various literary works about the May 18 Democratization Movement, including Han Kangโs Human Acts, is available on the Korean Literature Digital Library website (https://t.co/xseSPBl3Hx)
#LiteratureTranslationInstituteofKorea #LTIKorea #LTI #KoreanLiterature #KoreanLit #518 #May18DemocratizationMovement #HanKang #HumanActs #HwangSok-yong #BeyondDeathBeyondtheDarknessoftheAge #ChoiYun #ThereaPetalSilentlyFallsAndFades
๐ KLWAVE โ Everything about Korean Literature! โจ
Those Strange and Dazzling Days: New Releases from March and April 2026๐ซ
ใKLWAVE introduces international readers to various works of Korean literature. โNew Releasesโ features titles that have been published in March and April 2026, selected from Kyobo Book Centreโs โBook of the Monthโ and Aladinโs โMagicianโs Choiceโ lists.ใ
We get hurt, yet we reach out again. We fall apart day after day, and still somehow find our way through the next. Nevertheless, if there is still a reason for us to trust again, what might that reason be?
The works in this curation begin precisely from that question. They follow people who walk stubbornly toward life as they pass through loss and hatred, fear and loneliness, and inexplicable sorrow. Here, we offer you these tender acts of courageโtrembling with the whole body and breaking apart, yet still trying to gather up their scattered pieces and somehow stitch themselves back together again.
์ด์ํ๊ณ ๋๋ถ์ ๋ ๋ค: 3์๊ณผ 4์์ ์ ๊ฐ ๋์์ ๋๋ค. ๐ซ
ใKLWAVE์์๋ ํด์ธ ๋ ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ค์ํ ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ ์ํ์ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ์ค ์ ๊ฐ ์๊ฐ ์ฝํ ์ธ ๋ 2026๋ 3์, 4์์ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ ๊ต๋ณด๋ฌธ๊ณ โ์ด๋ฌ์ ์ฑ โ๊ณผ ์๋ผ๋ โ๋ง๋ฒ์ฌ์ ์ ํโ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋ ์ํ์ ์ ๋ณํด ์์ฑํฉ๋๋ค.ใ
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ข ์ข ์์ฒ๋ฐ๊ณ ๋ ๋ค์ ์์ ๋ด๋ฐ๊ณ , ๋งค์ผ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฌด๋์ง๋ฉด์ ๋ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ด์๋ธ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ผ์๋ ๋ค์ ๋ฏฟ์ด๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ ํํด์ผ ํ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋ฌด์์ผ๊น?
์ด๋ฒ ํ๋ ์ด์ ์ ๋ด๊ธด ์ํ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ ์ง์ ์์ ์์๋๋ค. ์์ค๊ณผ ํ์ค, ๊ณตํฌ์ ๊ณ ๋ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋ช ํ ์ ์๋ ์ฌํ์ ํต๊ณผํ๋ฉด์๋ ๋๋๋ด ์ถ ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๊ฑธ์ด๊ฐ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ, ์จ ๋ชธ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ถ์์ง๋ฉด์๋ ๊ธฐ์ด์ด ๊ทธ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋ค์ ๋ชจ์ ์ด์ด ๋ถ์ฌ๋ณด๋ ค๋ ๋ค์ ํ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ค์ ์ฐจ๊ณก์ฐจ๊ณก ๋ชจ์ ๋น์ ์๊ฒ ๊ฑด๋จ๋ค.
๐ค The Generation of Promises by Baek Ohn-yu
โ Can Hatred Be Cloned Too? by Yoon Hae-sung
๐ง A History of Madwomen: Mothers and Daughters by Lang Lee
๐ฅ Your Bad Crowd by Ye Soyeon
๐ชผ Jellyfish in Full Bloom by Kim Choyeop
๐ฌ An Ill Tale by Jeon Gunwoo
๐โ A Splendid Escape by Na Sangceon
โ๏ธ The Sorrow of Living by Pak Kyongni
Read the complete article at KLWAVE
๐ https://t.co/G8WqxZpzSH
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KCCI, in collaboration with Keumsan Gallery, presents โMateriality of Saekdong: ์๋์ ๋ฌผ์ฑโ โ an exhibition that goes beyond the visual, inviting you to experience color as texture, memory, and meaning.
๐ April 20 โ May 30, 2026
๐ผ๏ธ Exhibition Hall, KCCI
๐นA tunnel covered in a carpet of roses
Korea has a fairytale-like rose spot you donโt want to miss โจ
Under the tunnel filled with blooming roses,
it feels like petals are falling like rain, creating a dreamy rose carpet
Itโs beautiful outside,
but the moment you step inside, you feel like the main character in a fairytale
๐น Gyeongsan Daebu Underpass Rose Tunnel
๐บ๏ธ Daejori, Hayang-eup, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongbuk
๐ 404m from Exit 1, Buho Station (Daegu Subway Line 1)
โจ About 2 hours from Seoul to Daegu by KTX
โจ A scenic railway behind the tunnel and a river beyond the yellow rose fields
๐ธ IG - @ hanbok_travelarts
Experience the creativity and passion of Koreaโs performing arts through theater festivals held across the country. From classic plays to experimental performances, discover the diverse stories brought to life on stage.
๐ 2026 Seoul Theater Festival: May 1 โ June 30 | Seoul
๐ Suwon Theatre Festival: May 16 โ 17 | Suwon
๐ Young Theatre Festival: June 16 โ 28 | Seoul
๐ Korea Youth Theatre Festival: August | Miryang
๐ Seoul My Soul Shop opens at Gangnam Station
The 7th offline branch is now open in the heart of Gangnam โจ
Discover official Seoul goods, exclusive gifts & Seoul vibes in one place ๐
๐ Near Gangnam Station Exit 2
๐ https://t.co/pdxUYFetAk
โจ Falling sparks like starlight โ Haman Nakhwa Nori ๐
Held every year at Mujinjeong in Haman to celebrate Buddhaโs Birthday
this traditional fire festival creates a breathtaking scene
where glowing embers fall like starlight before your eyes โจ
๐ Haman Nakhwa Nori
๐ Mujinjeong Pavilion, Haman (25 Gwaesan 4-gil, Hamanmyeon)
๐ May 24, 2026 (Sun)
๐ 13:00โ22:00
๐ฅ Lighting begins at 19:00
โ ๏ธ Held every May. Advance online reservation is required, so plan ahead!
Surrounded by falling sparks in the night sky ๐
experience a magical moment where time seems to slow down
๐ธ IG - @ ssunday_k
Klook Launches "Real-time Train Booking Service" for International Travelers
Exclusive Welcome Offers for Train Travelers!
๐ Promotion Period: May 4 โ June 3
โจBook your Korean train tickets on Klook and unlock these incredible benefits:
- You can now select your preferred seat and book directly on Klook!
- KRW 6,000 instant discount for Klook train bookers! (First 5,000 customers)
- Free Rail+ Transit Card (KRW 4,000 value) pre-loaded with KRW 5,000, ready to use! (First 1,000 customers)
- Free eSIM to stay seamlessly connected throughout your trip!
๐ Link: https://t.co/nBQJ0LWft9
* Notice: Promotion is subject to early closure.
* 24/7 Multilingual customer support available
Introducing Claire Gullander-Droletโs review of Soyangri Book Kitchen. She explores how Kim Jee Hyeโs "healing fiction" invites us to imagine a life beyond the modern grind, transforming reading into a radical form of care and restoration.
Review by Claire Gullander-Drolet
https://t.co/zSmBBPabDa
๊น์งํ ใ์ฑ ๋ค์ ๋ถ์ใ์ ์ฝ์ด๋ธ Claire Gullander-Drolet์ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด ์์ค์ด ๋ฌดํ ๊ฒฝ์์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ถ์ ์์ํ๊ฒ ํ๋ ์ด๋์ฅ์์ ์ง์ด๋ด๋ฉฐ,
์ฝ๋ ํ์๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณต์ํค๋ ๋๋ด์ ํ์ด ๋๋์ง ์ฌ์ธํ๊ฒ ํ์ด๋ ๋๋ค.
#KimJeeHye #SoyangriBookKitchen #์ฑ ๋ค์๋ถ์ #KoreanLiterature #KLN #BookReview #KoreanFiction
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To celebrate Family Month, we recommend a perfect spring outing course to enjoy with your loved ones!
The Goyang International Flower Festival, Koreaโs only flower-themed expo,
is filled with a wide variety of flowers and vibrant attractions.
From kids to adults, everyone can have a great time
and capture plenty of picture-perfect moments!
Step into a space full of flowers, gardens, and special moments,
and experience one of the most beautiful days of this spring โจ
International Horticulture Goyang Korea 2026
๐ Date: April 24 (Fri) โ May 10 (Sun), 2026
๐ Location: Ilsan Lake Park (731 Hosu-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do)
๐ Transportation: About a 5-minute walk from Jeongbalsan Station (Line 3)
๐ธ Theme: โFlowers, Coloring Timeโ
๐๏ธ Admission: Adults KRW 15,000 / Children & Youth KRW 12,000
๐ธ IG - @ hotpickorea
๐โ๏ธ๐ซThe Moment of Finding a Path Between the Lines: Q1 2026 Bestsellers
ใKLWAVE brings a diverse range of Korean literature to readers worldwide. Our โBest Sellersโ section features quarterly roundups of the bestselling Korean literary works. The selection for the first quarter of 2026 is based on a comprehensive review of top selling books from three major Korean bookstore chainsโKyobo Book Center, Aladin, and Yes24โcovering the period from January to March 2026.ใ
As the New Year arrives once again, more people are visiting bookstores. Turning the first page of a new book is like reflecting on the direction of our lives. When we encounter โtrivial yet significantโ moments we once overlooked, we may finally grasp the clues to life we missed. We hope these stories will serve as a helpful guide for those preparing for another beginning, wherever they may be in life.
๐โ๏ธ๐ซ๋ฌธ์ฅ ์ฌ์ด์์ ๊ธธ์ ์ฐพ๋ ์๊ฐ: 2026๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ ๋ฒ ์คํธ์ ๋ฌ
ใKLWAVE์์๋ ํด์ธ ๋ ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ค์ํ ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ ์ํ์ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ์ค ๋ฒ ์คํธ์ ๋ฌ ์ฝํ ์ธ ์์๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ๋ก ์ ์ ํ ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ ๋ฒ ์คํธ์ ๋ฌ ์ํ๋ค์ ๋ค๋ฃน๋๋ค. 2026๋ ๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ฒ ์คํธ์ ๋ฌ๋ 2026๋ 1์๋ถํฐ 3์๊น์ง ๊ตญ๋ด ์์ ๊ต๋ณด๋ฌธ๊ณ , ์๋ผ๋, yes24์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ์ข ํฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ๋ คํด ์ ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.ใ
์ด๊น์์ด ์ฐพ์์จ ์ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ ์์ ์ ์ฐพ๋ ๋ฐ๊ฑธ์์ด ๋์ด๊ฐ๋ค. ์๋ก์ด ์ฑ ์ ๊บผ๋ด๋ค๊ณ ์ฒซ ํ์ด์ง๋ฅผ ๋๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ถ์ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ๋ค์๊ธ ๊ฐ๋ ํด๋ณด๋ ์ผ๊ณผ๋ ๋ฎ์ ์๋ค. ๋ฏธ์ฒ ๋์๋ณด์ง ๋ชปํ๋ โ์ฌ์ํ๊ณ ๋ ์ค์ํโ ์ฅ๋ฉด๋ค์ ๋ง์ฃผํ ๋, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋์น๊ณ ์๋ ์ถ์ ๋จ์๋ฅผ ๋น๋ก์ ์์ ์ฅ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ค์ด ์ ๋ง๋ค์ ์๋ฆฌ์์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ โ์์โ์ ์ค๋นํ๋ ์ด๋ค์๊ฒ ์ข์ ๊ธธ์ก์ด๊ฐ ๋์ด์ค ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
๐top 20 bestselling Korean literary works for Q1 2026.
1. The Grapefruit Apricot Club โ Han Roro
2. I Said โAnnyeongโ โ Kim Ae-Ran
3. Contradiction โ Yang Gui-ja
4. Honmono โ Seong Haena
5. Pavane for a Dead Princess (hardcover special edition) โ Park Min-gyu
6. Grandma โ Hwang Sok-yong
7. What It Means to Cook โ Choi Kang-rok
8. The Torrent โ Jung Dae-gun
9. Cherish Yourself As You Live โ Na Taejoo
10. My Perfect Funeral โ Jo Hyeonseon
11. Grandma Judy โ Park Wansuh
12. Incised Wound โ Gu Byeong-mo
13. Human Acts โ Han Kang
14. An Adultโs Happiness Is Quiet โ Taesu
15. An Illustrated Guide to Japanese Ad Copy โ Oh Harim
16. I Desire What is Forbidden to Me โ Yang Gui-ja
17. Snow and Stone(The 49th Yi Sang Literary Awards Anthology, 2026) โ Wi Soo Jung et al.
18. Shoot My Heart โ Jeong You Jeong
19. Iโll Be Happy, Even If It Seems Like Too Much(Kyobo Book Center Exclusive: 100,000-Copy Milestone Commemorative Reprint Edition) โ Illhong
20. Sejongโs Country Vol.1 โ Kim Jin-myung
Check out the complete article at KLWAVE
๐ https://t.co/sCh2hFrygI
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๐ธ Seoul Spring Festival
A must-visit by the Hangang River ๐
From night shows to themed playgrounds, spring lasts all day and night โจ
Step into Seoulโs brightest moments this weekend ๐ธ๐ฉท
๐ https://t.co/Q25S42hQPO
Introducing Shin Yi-inโs โProsperity of the House of Fireplaceโ and โThe Dream Machineโโ two poems that explore the irony of existence and the warmth of longing with a sharp yet contemplative voice.
by Shin Yi-in
translated by Jack Saebyok Jung
https://t.co/PbObLcLWvT
์กด์ฌ์ ์์ด๋ฌ๋์ ๊ฐ๋ง์ ์จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ ์นด๋ก์ฐ๋ฉด์๋ ์ฌ์์ ์ธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋ด์๋ธ ์ ์ด์ธ ์์ธ์ ใ๋ฒฝ๋๋ก ๊ฐ์ ๋ฒ์ใ๊ณผ ใ๊ฟ์ ๊ธฐ๊ณใ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
#ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ๋ฒ์ญ์ #KLN #KoreanLiteratureNow #์ ์ด์ธ #ShinYiin #ํ๊ตญ์ #KoreanPoetry #Poetry #๋ฒฝ๋๋ก๊ฐ์๋ฒ์ #๊ฟ์๊ธฐ๊ณ