Min Jin Lee Discusses Her Acclaimed Novel "Pachinko"

[@msgreenaliens]

I love this book so much. I am not Korean or Japanese but this book really meant a lot to me. Just getting to know each character so personally and relating to how human they are is what kept me reading. As you read inside each characters head you start to relate to their mistakes and secrets that maybe you’ve never told anyone and that is what made reading this book such a heartfelt experience. Everyone has family and everyone has a history to them and it is just amazing the cause and effect this book has for each generation. It makes you think of yourself as an individual and how many paths your life has but every decision you make has a consequence. It even makes you think about your own family and how your previous generations actions brought you to where you are now. I will always keep this book in a special place in my heart.

[@hamzakhairi4765]

Andrea Beatriz I haven’t finished this book but I love this book so far I’m on part 3 and i loved the parts that we already know like how when yoseb moved to Nagasaki and ur like oh no don’t go there or when Kim Changho goes to Pyongyang like no Kim Il Sung is there also Noa leaving Waseda made me feel so sad I was also surprised that Hansu wasn’t the one who told Noa he was his father I felt that he would find out in the scene but I thought Hansu would tell him and tell him how proud he is of him as his own blood. Cool book

[@foodandtravelmom2241]

What a thoughtful and intelligent author - very nice interview.

[@ba1anse]

She’s just so awesome, I love people who are so dedicated to their craft.

[@amparoohoo3532]

This book is my favorite book of all time. Min Jin Lee created a masterpiece with this one.

[@laqueenawilliams4762]

Apple making a show of it

[@JConestar]

@LaQueena Williams I just finished watching the 4th episode and I am IN LOVE.

[@Rachel-uq1bn]

Same it broke my heart when it ended I’m so attached to all the characters

[@posterizedz]

Amazing person and great book. I don't know how many interviews and speeches I've been going thru of hers. However, I do have a different take on the Korean's obsession with education. I somehow doubt Korea became the Korea as we know today without such obsession. It's easy now to pick on the downsides of such seemingly adverse obsession. However, from a realistic point of view, and also recognizing the vastly limited (natural) resources and the devastating state Korea was back then, you have to give recognition to the major role it has had on the economic/social development of Korea. The only thing Korea had was the will to improve. Natural resources are still a rarity hence the heavy dependence on international trade. The international stage is never a level/fair playing field with constant tensions and struggles between major powers. And what luck does Korea have despite being in the top ten for military and economic power, to be bordering nations like China, Russia and Japan. And of course the influences of the US has always been strong despite being on the other side of the globe. The Korea's being divided due to power struggles between outside nations is proof enough that playing it nice won't get you anywhere.

[@natural8677]

I think people are looking up from the textbooks and starting to wonder, when will enough be enough? Yes it has served an extremely crucial purpose and allowed for achievements against the odds but Korea is now the 11th major economy in the world for example. I think there isn't anything wrong to examine the whole picture of an important aspect of a culture because then it can perhaps adapt or evolve. It doesn't necessarily mean a replacement, if that makes sense

[@magmathon2]

I absolutely love this book. A wonderful historical family's saga over their time, Its a real masterpiece. I really loved the story and the characters in the book, I can envision this story in my head as I read this book. I learned a lot about Koreans and the places that were involved in the book. I can totally see this as a tear jerking saga film.

[@22noash]

i just finished the book and i got so connected to the characters and i can’t let that book go

[@jinheekim6240]

제딸이 읽고 추천. 물론 그애는 영어로. 다행하게도 한글반역판이 나왔어요. 참으로 자랑스러운 young Korean lady. 제 딸도 영문학을 전공하고 글도 곧잘 써서 언제인가 그녀의 story를 쓰길 바래요. 요즘은 민진 작가의 유툽을 많이봐요.

[@macclift9956]

I loved the book!

[@dltmdwnfkdldjs]

amazing novel. absolutely love the story.

[@hangmangpahang4089]

Pachinko, was a great reading !! Came to know about korean and japanese history through this book and also from the novel Living Reeds by Pearl S. Buck.

[@carolj7586]

I've just finisned the book. All the way, I thought how much work the writer put into this book.I will recommend this book to my friends

[@rprasannakumar]

As you point out at 12:53 koreans in japan din't see themselves as victims and carried this attitude of "History has failed us, but no matter" and continued to persevere, it might be because of that that no one cared to pay attention to their ordeal. Sometimes people stop seeing themselves as victims because the cost they have to pay for that might be much higher ...

[@hamzakhairi4765]

I’m reading this rn I’m in the 3rd book Pachinko

[@ntmn8444]

My new favorite book of all time. I absolutely loved it.

[@kpoptrash1014]

I love this book I just bought it and I’m in love with it

[@crunchygods]

Wonderful interview! I wish the video's white balance was not so far off, but hopefully your other videos are not that way. Anyway, thanks for this.

[@trojanhelena]

Read it twice already. Both times found it un-put-downable !

[@pamina1225]

이민진 작가님, I admire your work and pioneering writing. I'd really appreciate your book and many congratulations on its dramatisation so soon. Isn't there a possibility that Korean-Japaneses who live in Japan may end up suppressing their emotions and compromising their true feelings? How can they move on and live ordinary lives while carrying such big burdens of hatred and anger? I reckon that doesn't mean they don't care anymore about the heinous acts of war crimes and hideous discrimination committed by Japaneses When I was talking to a Japanese friend of mine, I had an experience of our misunderstanding the word 'pro-Japanese' (which is 親日派 in Japanese and 친일파 in korean). In Korea, however, the term is used in a negative connotation to refer to people who were Korean collaborators with Imperial Japan or who are Japanophiles. And Koreans express their derogatory intentions towards Japanese by using the phrase 'objecting to Japanese' (which is 反日/반일 in Korean). On the contrary, Japanese people refer to their racism towards Koreans as 'Hatred/Loathe against Koreans' (which is 嫌韓 in Japanese). Victims rather tend to hedge their language to avoid using extremely aggressive phrase that could further hurt them, I believe. How sad that the suffering has never gone away after all those years.

[@ifihadagun03]

2020 and im just reading it 😍😍😍

[@jongwoochoi8010]

아직 읽지 못했는데 빠찡코 사서 읽어보고 싶어요.

[@koreanpeninsula286]

Pachinko: Over 90% owned by Koreans. Very big huge Business. Do you know they make more money than Yakuza and Japan Porno Business combined? Very huge power money making industry. Like all businesses, it has good and evil.

[@atakkuuuuu]

Korean Peninsula I know Koreans ran a lot of pachinko parlors but I though the yakuza were also involved in the pachinko industry too?

[@Trisonss]

Why reference to porn ams yakuzas? Why not comparr to say tech business

[@윤자매맘-r1z]

I fell in love with your works... pachinko... youtube brought me here... I love the way you talk.. tone.. giggles...Min..I saw all your speeches of Harvard.. Ahmst... I hope I can meet u one day.. I am in Korea now.. and I was grown up in China.. I admire you and your work..... I am studying Enlgish very hard these days because I want to talk with you.. 😂

[@양병학-e1e]

Who of body is sponsoring or recommending her to novel literature awardship?

[@13579TV]

Discusses Her Acclaimed Novel "Pachinko"

[@윤미경-t5w]

I am so proud of them as a Korean immigrant person.

[@dorinam6753]

멋져요 cooool~

[@yalda3339]

she is so cute😍😍😍😍😍

[@so___fiiiii]

❤️

[@dianainparis]

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[@michaellim4165]

조금 부처님 닮으셨다...웃는 부처님.ㅋㅋ

[@sukfengchaw1729]

The author is very pretty , gorgeous .

[@charmander777]

Shes hot 🔥

[@birdie621]

Contrary to popular belief, Zainichi Koreans are prewar stowaways, refugees and their descendants from the Jeju massacre, Yeosu-Suncheon rebellion and the Korean War, not victims of forced labor or their descendants. Atrocities such as the abuse or slaughter of Koreans during Japanese rule are just common beliefs based on many groundless testimonies and propaganda, rather the Japanese side received much more damages both economically and personally. After the war, more than two million Koreans in Japan were ordered by the GHQ to return to the Korean Peninsula. However, 600,000 of them refused to go home despite their homeland independence, committed terrorism, riots, and other violent crimes in major Japanese cities. They shouted, "Revolutionize Japan and making it our republic !", dropped Japan into the chaos. Under the GHQ occupation, the police were powerless, and Japan became a de facto lawless zone. Koreans took advantage of this chaos, declaring "We are victorious nationals, we will not obey a defeated nation’s laws”, formed armed groups, committed countless crimes such as Illegal occupation of land, looting, bank raids, murders, assaults, rapes, attacks on government offices, police stations, and the prime minister's residence, burning down of courts and prosecutors' offices. Armed Korean mobs raided warehouses of farmers and agricultural cooperatives, robbed freight wagons, and looted shopping malls and national food warehouses, stole food, supplies, and rations for the Japanese people. They set up black markets in various parts of Japan, selling looted goods, illegal drugs, and moonshine liquor for a profit, which they used as capital to start businesses such as pachinko gambling on illegally occupied land and gained huge amounts of wealth. There are so many Korean billionaires who made a fortune at this time of chaos.

[@birdie621]

If Zainichi Koreans have been rejected by the Japanese people in postwar Japan, isn't it partly because of the numerous crimes and terrorist acts they committed against the Japanese people ?

[@dannyy8619]

Hahahahahahaha look at you try so hard to spread your propaganda. Stop being so insecure. Stop being so mad

[@shopgirl6673]

What a propaganda lie this is… you must have some kind of audacity!