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In The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun critiques capitalism's ability to monetise everything — even calamity and trauma

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https://www.firstpost.com/art-and-culture/in-the-disaster-tourist-yun-ko-eun-critiques-capitalisms-ability-to-monetise-everything-even-calamity-and-trauma-8651641.html
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Firstpost
Issued Date
August 03, 2020
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Language
English(English)
Country
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Book
The Disaster Tourist
Writer
Yun Ko Eun
Translator
Lizzie Buehler

About the Author

  • Yun Ko Eun
  • Birth : 1980 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Ko Eun
  • Family Name : Yun
  • Korean Name : 윤고은
  • ISNI : 0000000460164576
  • Works : 12
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  • English(English)

Yun Ko-eun's The Disaster Tourist (2020) follows a travel company in Korea, named Jungle, which specialises in guided tours to areas that have been struck by natural disaster in the recent past. Published originally in 2013 in Korean, the novel has been newly translated into English by Lizzie Buehler. The protagonist, Yona Ko, who has spent most of her twenties and early thirties working at Jungle, is one of the curators of these unorthodox travel experiences. 

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