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  • American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee
  • Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko”
  • The Empty Classrooms of ‘American Hagwon’

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bookishelf.com /4 weeks ago

American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee

A spoiler-free review of American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee: fifteen years in the life of one Korean family across Seoul, Sydney and Orange County, and the private tutoring industry th...

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newyorker.com /3 weeks ago

Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko”

The author talks with David Remnick about leaving corporate law to become a novelist, and making Korean culture and experiences legible to readers around the globe.

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foreignpolicy.com /6 days ago

The Empty Classrooms of ‘American Hagwon’

Min Jin Lee’s third novel struggles under the weight of its sociological questions.

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nytimes.com /3 weeks ago

Min Jin Lee Was Underestimated for Half Her Life. Then She Started to Write.

A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she’s become one of the most important novelists of her generation.

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electricliterature.com /1 month ago

8 Memoirs That Complicate the Story of Filipino America

The first known Filipino American memoir, Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart, was published in 1946. The next wouldn’t appear on the American literary landscape for nearly 60...

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theguardian.com /2 weeks ago

‘I thought, if I’m going to die, I’m going to write a book first’: Pachinko author Min Jin Lee

Her last novel sold 5m copies and was adapted into a hit series. Nearly 10 years on, the Korean-American author has written another epic. She discusses ambition and the diagnosis t...

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newyorker.com /1 week ago

Cinema of Wayward Souls

The director Lee Chang-dong excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms.

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vulture.com /1 month ago

The Wasian Generation

How the sudden pop-cultural dominance of part white, part Asian Americans triggered a collective identity crisis.

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asiatimes.com /1 month ago

In defense of Asian American art

Back in 2015, when I was living in Brooklyn, my apartment flooded. My landlord, who owned a bunch of apartments, offered to put me up in temporary accommodations. He and his girlfr...

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vulture.com /1 month ago

Min Jin Lee’s Model Minorities

The author’s fiction falls prey to the very tropes she has argued against.

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independent.ie /6 days ago

CAO points have nothing on Korean ‘grind schools’ in Min Jin Lee’s gripping family saga

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nknews.org /1 month ago

North South Man Woman- Love, friction and freedom across the Korean divide

North South Man Woman- Love, friction and freedom across the Korean divide

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koreatimes.co.kr /1 month ago

Love in Korean War: Wartime bride's son traces mother's journey from Wonju to America

On the wooden veranda of a traditional Korean house, its lattice doors covered in paper, a young couple sits facing each other and smiling. The American husband, hair cropped short...

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koreatimes.co.kr /3 weeks ago

[REVIEW] 'What's Eating Jackie Oh?' explores food, family and identity

Welcome to one of the most compelling coming-of-age books I have ever sampled. A Korean American girl in New York is one of a dozen high schoolers selected from around the U.S. to...

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elle.com /3 weeks ago

Min Jin Lee Wants You to Live Wisely

Her new book, American Hagwon, which explores education in Korea and America, might help with that.

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koreatimes.co.kr /3 weeks ago

We are the authors of our own story

Last week, I watched the 2026 Class Day address delivered by Lee Min Jin, the world-renowned author of "Pachinko." Her reflections on the Korean diaspora, spanning from Japanese co...

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nknews.org /1 month ago

French novelist traces Korean history through a North Korean spy

French novelist traces Korean history through a North Korean spy

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koreatimes.co.kr /3 weeks ago

Korea doesn't see race the way you do

“They’re kind of shocked when I tell them I’m not American. Then they’re really disappointed that I’m not French either, because they love French people,” a young woman explained t...

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forward.com /1 month ago

Author R.F. Kuang addresses backlash over Israeli character in newest book

The bestselling author R.F. Kuang has broken her silence over backlash to the inclusion of a minor Israeli character in her newest novel, Taipei Story. The book, published last wee...

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hollywoodreporter.com /1 week ago

‘Bedford Park’ Star Moon Choi Charts Her Own Path Between Korea and Hollywood

The rising Korean actress brings her acclaimed American indie romance with Son Sukku to Busan, where she’s also serving on the festival’s main competition jury led by Chinese filmm...

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teenlibrariantoolbox.com /4 weeks ago

I Never Expected My Book to Be This Timely, a guest post by E. L. Shen

Foreigners is a book that is predominately set about 60 years ago in 1966. And yet, of the four novels that I’ve written (three of which are contemporary—this is my first historica...

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vinepair.com /1 week ago

Next Wave Awards Nonprofit of the Year: AAPI Food & Wine

In 2020, Lois and Dave Cho became the first Korean American winemakers in Oregon when they launched CHO Wines in the Willamette Valley. The fast-growing winery quickly amassed a fo...

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kirkusreviews.com /4 days ago

MAUKA

June Nakashima, whose working-class Japanese American family lived in a section of Hilo known as Kimiville, lost her parents in the 1960 tsunami that devastated the region; when sh...

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koreatimes.co.kr /2 weeks ago

Filipinos turn Hongdae venue into home away from home

In western Seoul’s vibrant Hongdae neighborhood, a celebration of Filipino music and culture transformed a live music venue into a space where the community felt closer to home. Fi...

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