"As a novelist, my job is to play a role as an endoscope to look inside of a person, while also showing him or her wit…"

"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, as you go on turning page after …"

"I’m often asked, why would you move where there was a nuclear accident on purpose? I started writing novels when I wa…"

"I think that the role of a writer is to listen to the voices of the voiceless. It’s my job to listen to the voices of…"

"My grandfather was born and raised in a small town called Miryang in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. He was a long-dis…"

"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."

"What seems to destroy world orders (at least in history) is not great power rivalry, but structural pressures that fr…"

"If you were living in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, or sixteenth century, you would not think Europe was the…"

"Even more so than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there are major structural trends that are threatening to change the w…"

"I read mostly fiction, both contemporary and classic. I do love non-fiction too, if I lay hands on any. I enjoy world…"