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“(Jung-myung) Lee’s nuanced depiction of love, longing and greed, and wonderful characters, who are rich with motivations, aspirations, hopes and fears, make this a work of art. The novel (Painter of the Wind) lingers on in the mind and heart long after the last page.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5, Straits Times, 8 April 2023
Painter of the Wind
by Jung-myung Lee (tr. Hannah Pang and Stella Kim)
Painter of the Wind is a masterful novel that was adapted into a popular, award winning South Korean TV series. This gem of a book also delights readers with a rare collection of thirty-four colour paintings, including Shin Yun-bok’s Portrait of a Beauty and Kim Hong-do’s Wrestling.
Korean Teachers
by Seo Su-jin (tr. Elizabeth Buehler)
Painter of the Wind is a masterful novel that was adapted into a popular, award winning South Korean TV series. This gem of a book also delights readers with a rare collection of thirty-four colour paintings, including Shin Yun-bok’s Portrait of a Beauty and Kim Hong-do’s Wrestling.
“South Korea’s class struggles have similarly been the subject of Oscar-winning film Parasite (2019) and Netflix hit Squid Game (2021). Korean Teachers is far less dramatic, but is nevertheless an uncomfortable read in which the teachers are victims of their own personal demons as they struggle to survive.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5, Straits Times, 2 July 2022
Buckle Down
by Dr. Hyun-soon Lee (tr. Hannah Pang)
Buckle Down recounts the full history of how Dr Hyun-Soon Lee, a young and inexperienced South Korean engineer, left an enviable job at General Motors in the United States and moved to Hyundai Motors in South Korea to take up the daunting challenge of inventing South Korea’s very first automobile engine in the 1980s.
Grab and Go
by Jim Kim (tr. Hannah Pang)
When Jim Kim migrated to America in the late 1980s, he knew little English, and had ridiculously little capital and a degree that mainstream society didn’t recognise. He started several businesses, which all foundered. In 2005, he made an impressive comeback after the age of forty by starting the world’s first chain of grab-and-go sushi bars: SnowFox, which has become one of the largest chains of sushi bars in America.
Prospective Business
by KPMG Korea (tr. Hannah Pang)
In fifty-four chapters, Prospective Business offers practical and strategic solutions to doing business with North Korea across seven promising sectors: infrastructure and construction, distribution and consumer goods, information and communication technology, energy, resources, automobile, and tourism.