Korean literature trivia

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• Which novel by Han Kang is about the Gwangju uprising of May 1980?Korean literature
• Which story by Kim Seung-ok is set in the fog-bound town of Mujin?Korean literature
• Who wrote the novel Please Look After Mom?Korean literature
• Who wrote Who Ate Up All the Shinga?Korean literature
• Which Korean writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024?Korean literature
• Who wrote the roman-fleuve Land (Toji)?Korean literature
• Who wrote the roman-fleuve The Taebaek Mountains?Korean literature
• Which work by Yi Kwang-su is counted as the first modern full-length Korean novel?Korean literature
• Who wrote The Square, the novel that faces the division of Korea?Korean literature
• Which work won Han Kang the International Booker Prize in 2016?Korean literature
• Han Kang's The Vegetarian won the International Booker Prize in Britain in 2016.Korean literature
• Kim Seung-ok's Record of a Journey to Mujin is a story set in the fog-bound town of Mujin.Korean literature
• Han Kang's novel Human Acts is a work about the Gwangju uprising of May 1980.Korean literature
• Park Wan-suh worked only as a poet.Korean literature
• The novel Please Look After Mom was written by Gong Ji-young.Korean literature
• Han Kang is the Korean writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024.Korean literature
• The roman-fleuve Land (Toji) was written by Park Kyong-ni.Korean literature
• The roman-fleuve The Taebaek Mountains was written by Jo Jung-rae.Korean literature
• The novel The Square was written by Yi Kwang-su.Korean literature
• Yi Kwang-su's The Heartless is a Joseon-period novel written in classical Chinese.Korean literature
• Which poet wrote 'Prologue' (Seosi), the poem that begins 'Until the day I die, may I look up to heaven'?Korean literature
• In The Tale of Heungbu, which animal's broken leg does Heungbu mend?Korean literature
• Which work is counted as the first novel written in hangul, the Korean alphabet?Korean literature
• Which poet wrote 'Azaleas', the poem that begins 'When you go away, sick of the sight of me'?Korean literature
• Which traditional Korean verse form is made of three lines, an opening, a middle, and a closing?Korean literature
• Who wrote 'When the Buckwheat Blooms', set at the Bongpyeong market and in a buckwheat field under the moon?Korean literature
• Who wrote the poem 'The Silence of the Beloved', which begins 'My beloved has gone'?Korean literature
• Which of these is not one of Korea's four great classical novels?Korean literature
• Which Korean classical novel follows Yi Mong-ryong, who returns as a secret royal inspector to save the woman he loves?Korean literature
• In The Tale of Sim Cheong, where does Sim Cheong throw herself in to restore her father's sight?Korean literature
• The poet who wrote 'Prologue' (Seosi) is Yun Dong-ju.Korean literature
• In The Tale of Sim Cheong, the water Sim Cheong throws herself into is the Han River.Korean literature
• The Tale of Hong Gildong is a novel written in classical Chinese.Korean literature
• The Tale of Hong Gildong is known to have been written by Heo Gyun.Korean literature
• The poet who wrote 'Azaleas' is Kim Sowol.Korean literature
• Sijo is a traditional Korean verse form of three lines: an opening, a middle, and a closing.Korean literature
• 'When the Buckwheat Blooms' was written by Kim Yu-jeong.Korean literature
• The Silence of the Beloved was written by Kim Sowol.Korean literature
• In The Tale of Heungbu, Heungbu heals a swallow with a hurt leg and is given a gourd seed.Korean literature
• The Tale of Chunhyang is the story of a daughter who throws herself into the Indangsu to restore her father's sight.Korean literature