Hwang Sok-Yong
Hwang Sok-Yong is one of Korea's most-recognized authors due to his popular novel, Dr. Han, and Jan Gilsan, an epic serialised in a daily newspaper, which sold an estimated million copies in Korea. In 1989 he received international attention for traveling to North Korea on behalf of artistic exchange, and his subsequent imprisonment. He was later pardoned.
Hwang Sok-Yong is one of Korea's most-recognized authors due to his popular novel, Dr. Han, and Jan Gilsan, an epic serialised in a daily newspaper, which sold an estimated million copies in Korea. In 1989 he received international attention for traveling to North Korea on behalf of artistic exchange, and his subsequent imprisonment. He was later pardoned. See less
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