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Cari: this book is very dark Also Cari: perfect place to store a romantic momento 😂😂

Cari’s background is almost exactly how I envisioned my future apartment when I was a teen

I'm mexican, born, raised and still living in mexico and I've never heard about the korea-mexican history so thanks for the recommendation I'll definitely will be checking out black flowers!

[about Shoko's Smile] "maybe don't read it in public while it's the first day of your period and you're super emotional". maybe if i had known THIS BEFORE DOING EXACTLY THAT . because i absolutely loved it, i actually read it while in korea back in july and bought myself a korean copy (i can't read it yet but someday!), but i made it my little book for reading while coffee hopping when i was on my period and i cried in public an embarrassing amount of times, and what's more embarrassing is that i kept telling myself "maybe the next story won't make me cry" and it happened all over again. haven't read most of these recs so adding them to my list now 🥰

Human Acts is the best book I've read so far this year. It was so heartbreaking, but beautiful. Also a book I wouldn't recommend reading in public, I remember crying my eyes out in Coffee Bean and disturbing all the people working and studying while reading it.

I've been waiting for this one. Thank you for giving us this list to start reading Korean authors. I really appreciate the hard work you put in every video.

YAAAS I've been waiting for this video!😍 I just love how you talk about these books in the most engaging way. ♥ I recently read Kim Ji Young Born in 1982 and it easily became one of my favorite books. Before reading this book, and being an Egyptian woman, I never thought how much I'd relate to a novel inspired from what Korean women go through. I guess as women we're all in this together no matter where we're from. Intergenerational traumas because of misogyny, sexism in the workplace, victim blaming when Ji Young was stalked, cameras hidden in toilets, everything in this book was so real it made me want to cry more than once. I would definitely recommend the movie because the acting was great. The main difference is that I feel the movie ended on a more hopeful note than the book. I just finished The Plotters by Kim Un Su and I LOVED it. Somebody make it into a kdrama because it definitely has that vibe. I'm so excited because Kim Un Su is coming to Egypt this week to discuss the novel and there will be a Korean literature book fair so I hope I can find some of the books you talked about because they all seem interesting 💘💘

She kept promising us about this video for so long i can't believe it. it's finally out😭💓💓I'm on my way home after an exam and this is the best treat EVER!!

Choi Eunyoung is also one of my favorite Korean Authors and she is such a sweet person too! We once had a reading session with her for my uni degree because we translated some of her work for one of our translation classes (I think the reading was on Xin Chào, Xin Chào but the course that semester was translating 언니, 나의 작은, 순애 언니 (I actually don't know the english title lol but it's also in Shoko's Smile) and it was one of the most pleasant reading sessions we ever had. Also I don't know if you might have already read it, but I can only recommend this anthology of various Korean sci-fi authors called "Readymade Bodhisattva"! Some insanely thought provoking stories in there, especially the title story, but also the stories by Djuna and Jeong Soyeon!! I feel like it's an amazing way to get introduced to new authors and I have falled in love with so many that are featured in it.

Korean movies are so great, I should be reading more Korean novels.

Yeesssss i've been waiting for this one! I love japanese and korean literature! Great as always, Cari!

Going to Korea next week and binging Cari's videos!!

Love that you mentioned Tower - it's one of my favorite books. I love to reread it and then pick out favorite stories to reread again. My only quibble with it is that I want more stories in this world. I love sci-fi and I love how cheeky but heartfelt it is.

We need a cari can knit 😂 that yarns a nice shade of green

영어로 번역된 한국소설이 이렇게 많은지 몰랐네요... 한국적인 감정이 이해가 된다는게 놀랍네요.... 한국소설이 좋은것들이 많아서 번역이 많이 되었으면 좋겠네요.... 최고입니다....

I have been looking for new/different translated works to read and this video was extremely helpful!! Human Acts is one of my favorites because of its interesting 2nd person point of view. Sending love!

Omg please make one of your favourite Japanese authors too I’m so curious to see what you compile

I agree that KIM Young-ha is incredible 👌 How could someone find Black Flower boring? The books is beautifully written, and most of all heartbreaking.😭

your Namjoon was why i picked up Human Acts! it was such a great read, thank you for your recs always :)

ooh so excited for this!!! i've been super interested in reading japanese lit (before the coffee gets cold & lonely castle in the mirror are both top books on my tbr) so i can't wait to hear about all these korean books 💖✨

Thank you for talking about Korean literature, as it rarely gets talked about. If you'd like to talk about what gets translated into English and what doesn't, why etc. and how literature is perceived in Korea, I'd interested in that discussion!

Yes!! I've been so into Korean lit lately, and now you upload this video! Thank you!

Definitely enriched my tbr

Amazing authors! Lost in the pages of good books by these authors🤗

If you ever make to Mexicali(a City south from Ensenada) there is an underground chinatown. :) Like literally underground. I highly recommend looking it up. I grew up in Tijuana and Ensenada and I had a LOT of Chinese and Japanese friends and my maternal grandma is part Korean. HER grandma left Korea Around WW1 and ended in Guerrero which is south from the US border. I grew up thinking some products and food I ate were Mexican but they were actually Asian. xD

This is so perfect. I regularly read diverse authors and translated works but there's not a lot of recommendations from big booktubers. Gonna add these to my TBR.

Omg you are doing korean books. A million thanks to you. ;) love ya

I was reading Human Acts when we were also having similar situation in Myanmar too. It was a suffocating experience for me. Thanks Cari for introducing different other Korean author's and Genres.

I love your book videos so much they're so comfy

I've been watching this channel and other yours for a long time. And it's literally my first time to comment here. I'm so happy to watch this video. Since I'm 아줌마 loving reading books in Korea. Someday, I hope Korean literature will become as popular as K-pop and K-dramas.

Great list - I’d like to add thriller writer Jeong You-Jeong. The Good Son is very dark but one of my favorite books despite that (I don’t usually read really dark books). She also another thriller, Seven Years of Darkness, that I haven’t read yet. I love that you called out that only certain types of books are generally translated into English - As a voracious reader, I hate that there are so many amazing books I’ll never be able to read because I can only read in English.

I strongly recommend the story of Mr. Han by Hwang Sok yong! It talks about the time after the korean war and is utterly devastating and soul crushing - but important work nontheless because it shows how cruel and random discrimination, war etc is.

Wow, LOVE this ida for a video, Cari... I've always wanted to get into reading from more Korean authors, so now I'll have this video for reference haha! 💗Also, happy first day of fall!! 🍁🥂

love making my tbr pile even longer 😂 but seriously, korean literature is smth i know next to nothing about, so i'm looking forward to trying these out!

Ahh! So Jelly you’re going to see McR! Have so much fun and be safe!! ❤❤

You definitely need to try 김초엽's books. I'm not sure whether it is translated or not but her books are amazing!

Human Acts by Han Kang haunts me to this day.

Also! I was totally expecting you to talk about Jung Young Moon

7:05 That was a cute surprise.

I have been waiting this video for so long 💞 THANK YOU

a senior of mine recently recommended the animated movie adaptation ("leafie, a hen into the wild") of hwang sunmi's book to me! it's supposedly a great (and very sad) movie (when she shows it to her students, she observes their reactions instead of watching the film so she can see the waterworks lol)

Cariiiii, have you read 몽길 언니? I read it last summer because it got translated into French for the first time. It's a classic middle grade that Koreans read very young at school apparently. And it is extraordinary. Seriously, read it ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I live in Korea as well! It’s so nice to find someone else who lives here who loves books. 😊

I've seen the movie and I can definitely recommend it (to you)! I think it's very well made and I might even prefer it to the book? It has a slight sliver of hope at the end, which the book doesn't. That was refreshing to see and healed my heart a bit

Cari you should read 'Nobody writes back' by Jang Eun Jin it gave me big Murakami vibes!

i'm form mexico and i've never heard about that part with korean history

I recently read Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun and really liked it!

I just recently started reading korean books. I've read The Vegetarian and I didn't really vibe with it, it was a bit too surreal for me at times. But then I read Human acts in one sitting and oh my god. It hit me so hard, even though I don't know anything about the historical background. After I put the book down I just sat there.

absolutely loving the recommendations!

Cari's videos mark the friday for me

Omg I’m so gonna read the black flower!!!!

Hi Cari, i just read the hen who dreamed she could fly. It's on my tbr for such long time, and suddenly you recomended it to me exactly when i have no cr book. It' a magically how the book came to me with the right time! Thank you for bring this to me 😁 oh! And after i read that, i realized that i have the other book from the same author. The title is ' the dog who dared to dream' Just try it, please. You have Loui and i thought you will be like it 😀

Wow without realizing and seeing this video I have read almost all these books😂

Thanx for this video, many interesting new titles! I am def going to check some of those out!! I have already read born in 1982, cause I was born in 1983 and it felt close to home ^^. But it was difficult for me to enjoy it. I felt sorry for her, but also the story didn't really go anywhere.

i recently read mina by kim sagwa and i really recommend that one! i liked the writing and the story is just 😳😳😳😳

Human Acts is such a haunting read I read it actually first in English for a class I took in college for easy credits as a Korean speaker, and then read it again in Korean (advantages of being bilingual I guess lol) Deborah Smith did an amazing, amazing job of translating Han Kang's Korean prose into English. My god, it's one thing to read the historical accounts like 죽음을 넘어 시대의 어둠을 넘어 (edited by Hwang Seok Young, published in 1985 in the "underground" and promptly banned. The galls on these men and women to publish these at the height of the Chun dictatorship my god), but reading in Han Kang's prose gave it like a fever dream kind of quality to it, hauntingly surreal. I still think about this line from time to time whenever I see the news like finding the DNA matches for Gwangju victims in cemeteries that hold bodies of homeless people: "당신의 장례식을 치루지 못해 내 삶이 장례식이 되었습니다" ( “After you died I couldn't hold a funeral, so my life became a funeral.") Btw if you're interested in the history as told by the activists themselves in Gwangju I do highly recommend "죽음을 넘어 시대의 어둠을 넘어" but it really also is a harrowing read, I had to put the book down a few times while reading it in an airplane bc it was such a harrowing read while I was on a flight for my college reunion where we'd be just acting like degenerates and didn't want to be depressed when I landed lol

love this!! been waiting on this list :)

omg so many amazing books.

I am surprised I read most of the apart from Shoko's smile and Cursed Bunny.

thank you very much for this video! :*

Cari bestie I need you to do a video explaining the full Percy Jackson series before the show comes out please I need to know what I’m getting into

god i love that title

excited for this one

My Chemical Romance ....they are great. 😉🤘🏻 Nice video I will look on the internet for some of these books.

You look like Amy Adams in Enchanted😊

5:17 didnt something very similar happen in korea pretty recently? the purple islands thing

I read "The Vegetarian" in 2017 and it left me scarred, even though I loved it. (It was an Italian edition, translated from the English one.) There will be some SPOILERS so please do not read if you want to avoid them To me what was the most painful thing to witness was the fact that the protagonist is never allowed to speak and to present her story, she is always described by other people to the reader, which to me had the effect of denying her agency. The fact that even the title refers to the view that others have of her behavior, considered as problematic because it goes against social norms, while she is attempting to rebel, taking control of the only thing she can - her body, through an ED - really broke my heart. I wouldn't even consider it a book with a dreamy atmosphere, to me it was very rough and painful and a true depiction of the struggle of a woman to assert herself in a context of gender oppression. All that said, it was a great book and i would love to read her other one, even though I'm a bit scared now 😅 I loved this video, thank you so much for sharing your favorite (translated) Korean authors! 💕

This is great!! 🎉

I bumped into Cari's channels because of 'that Namjoon's books video'. So, this video had me smiling and excited. I wish fellow bts armys can find her and get into readng and 'namjooning'. Love her aesthetic and reading vlogs

Petition for a meetup in USA time 🎉

Could you pls make a Japanese version? Thank u for all of ur Korean recommendations tho ✨🫀

Hello i know this is not related but can you try, if possible, Seventeen's book recommendations? They are a wonderful group and several memebrs love to read. Most especially Wonwoo :)

I've just recently found your channel through the ACOTAR videos! I was just wondering, have you ever read MXTX's books?

Have you read Lucinda Riley’s the Seven sisters series?

A very genuine question right here. I hope I worded this question well. Since that translated books are technically rewritten for another language, how far/valid(?) it is to say "I love her writing, the writing is beautiful" while referring to the original author? (emphasized: writing style, not idea/concept of the story). I'm know for sure translators are supposed to give their best to keep the vibes and voice colours of the original authors. But I would like to know the opinions from others, bc I personally feel a bit weird to claim I like the writing style when it is in fact was a translation work of someone's else

where do you go in korea to buy these english translated books. i got here recently and i've been struggling

Can you put an Arabic translation? Please 💜

Ok I just found your channel, and I don’t expect you to reply; but please give us more AAPI/Asian book authors/authoress.

📚👍💕

So IF I HAD YOUR FACE and BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND were not originally written in Korean and then translated? I thought you were going to talk about those.

1718 Heh.. get it? ...Beause the cover looks like a face...

you said it is historical FICTION and you living in CA next to the mexican border and you never heard about this part of corean history. FICTION is the key word