In the 1990s, writer and Korean reunification activist Hwang Sok-yong spent five years in prison for visiting North Korea in violation of South Korea’s National Security Act. In his memoir The…

I had never before paid so much attention to the act of eating.

You're a born stranger. You'll feel out of place in every country.

When whales swim toward the coastline, they sound like North Korean spy submarines.

He finally realized why Alex had hired an investigator and invited him to the US.

In February of 1949, police officers stormed in without warning.

After that day, I had no mother.

With rations cut off, people began to starve.

The earth is dark, the sky is dark, and the people’s hearts are dark.

About half a century after Monroe visited Korea, Lady Gaga came to call.

She wished she were blind so she couldn’t see the man mincing around, mimicking her father in a skirt.

What he’d mistaken for a white dog was staring at him with red eyes.

In recent years, gay male characters have been featured in South Korean television and cinema—and even in a commercial or two. Movies like The King and The Clown and A Frozen Flower and the television…