![]() ![]() ![]() Han grapples with this violent history in her engrossing new novel, “Human Acts.” ![]() In May 1980, just months after Han moved to Seoul, Gwangju became the site of a democratic uprising and a brutal government-ordered massacre. Easy, at least, from the outside - in South Korea, everyone over 30 has lived through authoritarian rule, which might explain why millions have turned out for the ongoing protests against the current president Park Geun-hye, the daughter of former dictator Park Chung-hee.Īuthor Han Kang - who won the Man Booker International prize last year for her first novel translated into English, “The Vegetarian” - was born in Gwangju in 1970. South Korea is such a prosperous democratic republic that it’s easy to forget that the country was under military dictatorship as recently as 1987. ![]()
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