Han Kang

South Korean · 1970–

South Korean novelist and Nobel laureate whose visceral, poetic fiction confronts violence, bodily autonomy, and the haunting legacies of history.

“인간은 근본적으로 잔인한 것이 가능한가?”
한국어

“Is it possible that human beings are fundamentally cruel?”

“그때는 내가 들어서고 있는 어둠이 죽은 자들의 문제가 아니라 산 자들의 문제라는 것을 몰랐다.”
한국어

“I didn't know then that the darkness I was entering was a problem of the living, not the dead.”

“죽은 자들의 삶이 헛되지 않았다고 믿고 싶다.”
한국어

“I want to believe that the lives of the dead are not in vain.”