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About Hwang Sok-yong

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

Articles by Hwang Sok-yong

Friday 16th December

The ghosts of North and South Korea

Hwang Sok-yong, 16 December 2005
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.
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