On my mother’s birthday, I decided to take her to the lovely little town of Padova in the north of Italy. There, we stopped by Feltrinelli, one of the biggest Italian bookstore chains. As we roamed around the bookshelves, we were pleased to see the huge amount of Korean books that have been translated into…
Korean Literature
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop Review: Bookworms x The World
I’ve always had a book in my hands. I still have a video of little Karen with an upside-down dictionary in her hands. I must have been about two or three when I proudly proclaimed to the world, in response to my mom’s question of what I was doing, “I’m reading”. During high school, I…


