Yun Ko Eun et al / 윤고은 / 2020 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > SF > Fantasy

An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global dialog around climate activism, dark tourism, and the #MeToo movement. For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. Her work life is uneventful until trouble arises in the form of a predatory colleague. To forestall any disruption of business as usual, Jungle makes Yona a proposition: a paid “vacation” to the desert island of Mui. But Yona must pose as a tourist and assess whether Jungle should continue their partnership with the unprofitable destination. Yona travels to the remote island, whose major attraction is an underwhelming sinkhole, a huge disappointment to the customers who’ve paid a premium. Soon Yona discovers the resort’s plan to fabricate a catastrophe in the interest of regaining their good standing with Jungle―and the manager enlists Yona’s help. Yona must choose between the callous company to whom she’s dedicated her life or the possibility of a fresh start in a powerful new position. As she begins to understand the cost of the manufactured disaster, Yona realizes that the lives of Mui’s citizens are in danger―and so is she.   Source : https://www.amazon.com/Disaster-Tourist-Novel-Yun-Ko-eun/dp/1640094164/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Yeong-shin Ma et al / 마영신 / 2020 / -

Lee Soyeon, Myeong-ok, and Yeonjeong are all mothers in their mid-fifties. And they’ve had it. They can no longer bear the dead weight of their partners or the endless grind of menial jobs where their bosses control everything, down to how much water they can drink. Although Lee Soyeon divorced her husband years ago after his gambling drove their family into bankruptcy, she finds herself in another tired and dishonest decade-long relationship with Jongseok, a slimy waiter at a nightclub. Meanwhile, Myeong-ok is having an illicit affair with a younger man, and Yeonjeong, whose husband suffers from erectile dysfunction, has her eye on an acquaintance from the gym. Bored with conventional romantic dalliances, these women embrace outrageous sexual adventures and mishaps, ending up in nightclubs, motels, and even the occasional back-alley brawl. With this boisterous and darkly funny manhwa, Yeong-shin Ma defies the norms of the traditional Korean family narrative, offering instead the refreshingly honest and unfiltered story of a group of middle-aged moms who yearn for something more than what the mediocre men in their lives can provide. Despite their less-than-desirable jobs, salaries, husbands, and boyfriends, these women brazenly bulldoze their way through life with the sexual vulnerability and lust typically attributed to twenty-somethings.   Source : https://www.amazon.com/Moms-Yeong-shin-Ma/dp/177046400X

Yi Sang et al / 이상 / 2020 / -

Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang’s works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of world literature in the early twentieth century and the political upheaval of 1930s Japanese occupied Korea. While his life ended prematurely at the age of twenty-seven, Yi Sang’s work endures as one of the great revolutionary legacies of modern Korean literature. Presenting the work of the influential Korean modernist master, this carefully curated selection assembles poems, essays, and stories that ricochet off convention in a visionary and daring response to personal and national trauma, reminding us that to write from the avant-garde is a form of civil disobedience.   Source : https://www.amazon.com/Yi-Sang-Selected-Works/dp/195026808X

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim et al / 김금숙 / 2021 / KDC구분 > Social science > Sociology and social problems

Působivý komiksový román přinášející svědectví o skutečném příběhu mladé dívky, sexuálně zotročené během 2. světové války. Source : https://www.knihcentrum.cz/trava-1

Sohn Won-pyung et al / 손원평 / 2021 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

1988年ソウルオリンピックの年に生まれ、三十歳になった非正規社員のキム・ジヘ。88年生まれに一番多い名前「ジヘ」と名付けられた彼女はその名の通り、平凡を絵に描いたような大人になっていく。 大企業の正社員を目指すジヘの前に現れたのは、同じ年の同僚ギュオク。彼の提案する社会への小さな反撃を始めることになったジヘは、自身を見つめなおし、本当にしたかったことを考えるように。そして、ついに「本当の自分」としての一歩を踏み出すことになる――。 Source : https://www.amazon.co.jp/三十の反撃-ソン・ウォンピョン/dp/4396636121