This is an essay on Kim Soom, the Featured Writer of KLN Vol. 55. In this essay, literary critic Jang Soohee takes the “backmasking technique” in music to describe the literary world of Kim Soom, who highlights the lives of laborers and “comfort women” and rewrites the history of women and laborers in her works such as “The Ulsan Period: Spirit and Fire” (Munye Joongang Spring 2007), Cheol (Iron, 2008), and One Left (2016).