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Hwang Sok-yong

Hwang Sok-yong was born in 1943. He is one of Korea’s most renowned writers.

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The ghosts of North and South Korea

The legacy of Korea’s terrible war in 1950–53 and the division of the peninsula into two states – North and South – still haunts the national psyche. Hwang Sok-yong, one of Korea’s most renowned novelists, explores some of this legacy’s forbidden territory: the violence done by Koreans to each other.