From drag sensation and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race Kim Chi and the acclaimed author of the K-Pop Confidential books comes a contemporary superhero series about a community coming together, fabulously, to save a local library.For twelve-year-old Korean immigrant Jae Han, the library is more than a place to check out books. It’s a safe space to work on his comic book featuring drag superhero Donutella Hamachi, play video games to improve his...

From drag star Kim Chi and best-selling author Stephan Lee comes the next installment in the adventures of Donutella Hamachi, the fabulous superhero alter ego of middle schooler Jae Han.Jae Han and his friends (aka the Library Avengers) are excited about the school play, an original musical based on the work of their favorite comics artist, Park Seon Woo. As the gang decides which parts they want to audition for, Jae Han is content to do the makeup, with a little i...

Media education in Asia is a relatively young, but rapidly developing part of the curriculum. Research has been conducted and papers have been written on various issues concerning media education in Asia. The dominant models of media education in the world are broadly Western and most are drawn from English-speaking countries. The question is whether a similar pattern exists in Asia, where there may be differences in culture, heritage, beliefs, values, education policy, as well as curricul...

A Date with DestinyWooseo Shin was never one to believe in fate, but what else could be behind the hot mess his life has become?! For years, Wooseo has pined after his close friend and crush, Jiseok Kang, wanting someone he knows he can never have. So when a ring of red thread appears around his finger, it feels like the universe is rubbing salt in his wound. This ring connects a person to their soulmate, and with it, neither can fall asleep when the other isn’t present. The man with the o...

All’s Fair in Love and WarHis heart torn from the bittersweet pain of unrequited love, Wooseo turns to Jigeon for solace…and the two of them kiss?! What starts as a natural physical affinity between Ring Partners quickly becomes a comfortable routine of intimacy, and Wooseo soon realizes he might be seeing Jigeon less and less as a “stand-in” for his best friend. But all is not well in paradise…Jiseok has caught on to his brother’s suspicious string pulling, dredging up complicated feeling...

Wooseo’s heart has been swayed, and Jigeon is determined to win it over completely, once and for all. But a meeting between Wooseo, Jiseok, and the Connector may throw a wrench in his plans when Jiseok reveals his brother has been deceiving Wooseo. The lies, the manipulations, the mind games—when all is laid bare to Wooseo, will he choose to stay tied to Jigeon?

A BEST OF THE MONTH SELECTION BY OPRAH MAGAZINEAN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2021"An eminent South Korean talent makes her American début in this poignant watercolor of a novel . . . Kim is a writer on the move." —O, The Oprah MagazineAe-ran Kim's My Brilliant Life explores family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships, interweaving the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times....

With the Heart of a Ghost is a debut collection of eight fantastical stories translated by Chi-Young Kim (Whale) that explore feelings unseen, unconveyed, unexplainable.The funny, meditative characters who inhabit this book are pulled far from their ordinary daily routines to stare straight into their own sorrows, however they manifest. Ghosts and otherworldly occurrences are folded seamlessly into author Lim Sunwoo’s quiet universe with stories b...

INGREDIENTS: Ramen Makes Us Complete is a funny, comforting and moreish memoir celebrating the joys of food. [May contain warm, generous stories about family and friends, working life, being a woman in modern society and finding a way to live comfortably with who you are.]~~~ In this world, there are two types of food: ramen and non-ramen ~~~Yoon Ina takes instant noodles seriously. She’s the first to try new flavours the moment th...

'An important literary piece of feminist activism''Taps into the everyday minutiae of motherhood, baring to all the unspoken labours that women take on both inside and out of parenthood''Really made me reflect on what it actually means to be a part of a community''Given recent news stories this feels like an incredibly relevant read'-------------------------------------From t...

'Jung-Myung Lee's extraordinary The Investigation, translated by Chi-Young Kim, is set in a period of Korean history that isn't widely known in the West . . . a heart-wrenching novel with many unexpected twists.' – Sunday TimesLonglisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeFukuoka Prison, 1944. Beyond the prison walls the war rages; inside a man is found brutally murdered.Yuichi Watanabe, a young guard with a ...

NOW A MAJOR KOREAN THRILLER STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIMEHornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. But while on an assassination job for the ‘disease control’ company she works for, Hornclaw makes an uncharacteristic error, causing a sequence of events that brings her past well and truly into the present.Threatened with sabotage by a young male upstart and battling new desires and urges when she least expects them, ...