A recent Korea Gallup poll found that, as Jin Eun-soo reports in The Korea Herald, Haruki Murakami most-read foreign novelist in Korea.
Yes, 24 per cent of people surveyed reported having read a book of his. Interestingly, however, the same survey found he's not the most popular foreign author among South Korean readers -- that honor going to ... Bernard Werber (best (and, in English, pretty much solely) known for his Empire of the Ants; get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk). Murakami comes in second, followed by Tolstoy, Pearl Buck (!), Alain de Botton (!), J.K.Rowling, Guillaume Musso (another mega-bestselling French author that barely registers in the US/UK) and .... Dan Brown and Paulo Coelho.
Yes, 24 per cent of people surveyed reported having read a book of his. Interestingly, however, the same survey found he's not the most popular foreign author among South Korean readers -- that honor going to ... Bernard Werber (best (and, in English, pretty much solely) known for his Empire of the Ants; get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk). Murakami comes in second, followed by Tolstoy, Pearl Buck (!), Alain de Botton (!), J.K.Rowling, Guillaume Musso (another mega-bestselling French author that barely registers in the US/UK) and .... Dan Brown and Paulo Coelho.