Study Guides on Works by Han Kang

Hang Kang's Human Acts was first published serially in an online literary magazine from 2013 to 2014 and published in book form in 2014. It is a dramatization of the so-called Gwangju Uprising, which took place in South Korea in 1980 and aimed to...

The Vegetarian is a novella in three parts written by Korean author Han Kang. First time published in Korea in 2007, it received an uneasy reception and was thought to be both bizarre and extreme. The novella is based on a short story Han had...