South Korean literature covers literature from South Korea, written mainly in Korean, and/or other languages.
A representative barometer of serious fiction is provided by the choices of some contemporary authors by the Korea Literature Translation Institute for translation into English, French, German and Spanish. Among the modern authors translated by LTI are:
The Korea literature market is dominated by typical mass market genres, including:
Non-fiction essayists include Chang Young-hee.
List of Korean language poets (mainly 20th Century)
Notable modern poets include Moon Deok-soo (문덕수, 文德守, b.1928),Choi Nam-son (1890–1957) and Kim Sowol,Ki Hyung-do, Chon Sang-pyong.