Kim Chang-wan says he can't read The Vegetarian on the Han River (+video)

The part that Kim Chang-wan said he couldn't read was because the people around the main character who is a vegetarian can't accept it and are worried about the main character, so they force him to stop being a vegetarian, and the main character's father even uses violence to force him to eat meat and force him to eat it. That's why Kim Chang-wan said he couldn't read it. It's too cruel.

Kim Chang-wan is someone who has been a vegetarian, so he said he couldn't read the book because the sentences in the book were too violent. If you watch the video, you can see that author Han Kang also says that if it's hard to read, don't read it.

Han Kang: I'm sensitive to violent scenes like this, so when I watch a movie about Auschwitz, I throw up or feel sick for a few days. The thing I'm most afraid of and find most difficult is violent scenes, but even so, because these are so difficult, I wanted to write about this person in order to overcome that, and in order to write about this person, I had to express why this person had such difficulty enduring violence only through violent scenes, so I had a hard time getting through it.

Kim Chang-wan: It seems like Young-hye was able to survive such violence and let the Han River breathe above the surface.