Choi Jin-Young has been publishing fiction since 2006. She debuted as a writer through Silcheon Munhak, and won the 15th Hankyoreh Literary Award in 2010 for her novel The Name of the Girl Who Passed You By. Choi has received numerous other literary awards including the Manhae Literary Award, the Baek Sin-ae Literary Award, and the Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature. She is the author of the novels The Name of the Girl Who Passed You By, Unfinished Song, Why Didn’t I Die?, Proof of Gu, To the Warm Horizon, Dear Sister, and Dream of Becoming Myself; and the short story collections The Top, and Winter Vacation.

Oh Han-ki, along with Jeong Jidon and Lee Sangwoo, is a member of the group ‘Analrealism ’, which is shocking the Korean literary circle in the 2010s. ‘Analrealism’, is a parody of ‘intestinal realism’ from The Savage Detectives by the Chilean writer Robert Bolaño, who wanted to attack the existing literary circle, and to jeer at the conventional order. Such details and processes are well depicted in an interview with Jeong Jidon. “In the summer of 2012, I created the analrealism group with Oh Han-ki. During the call, when I said that I wanted to start analrealism, Oh Han-ki rolled on the floor with laughter, his phone still in his hand. Analrealism is a parody of intestinal realism from The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño).” However, it’s still too early to tell how the members of ‘analrealism’, in other words the ‘analrealists’, have attacked and criticized established Korean literature. They have succeeded in drawing attention from readers and literary critics due to their strange name, but it is hard to say that their works have become the new mainstream or critical methods for Korean literature. They are still writers who are developing in their careers.

Kim Eunguk (1932-2009) was a South Korean-American novelist who completed military service as an army first lieutenant before immigrating to the United States. In 1963, Kim received a master’s degree in Far Eastern literature from the Department of Far Eastern Language and Literature, and debuted in 1964 with the English-language novel Martyrs. Exploring the thoughts of a Christian and the problem of human salvation, the work was a twenty-week bestseller in the United States and was translated into more than twenty languages, including Korean and German. Kim is known for dealing with Korea’s circumstances from a humanistic perspective. •Martyrs (1965) •The Lost Names (1979)

Kim Moonsoo (1939-2012) was a Korean novelist. In his early works, he delves into an ordinary life of an individual being destroyed by the tragedy of the Korean War and the introduction of industrialism. In his later works, he deals with the conflicts between materialism and traditional ethics during the expansion of industrialization.

Park Kyuwon (1954-) is a South Korean novelist who in 2003 published a dramatic documentary novel about the life of Kim Yeom, who was an actor in the Chinese film community, titled Sanghai oldeu deiseu (상하이 올드 데이스 Shanghai Old Days). The novel was awarded the Non-Fiction of the Year Award (올해의 넌픽션상). •Novel Sanghai oldeu deiseu (상하이 올드 데이스 Shanghai Old Days) (2003) •Anthology Bulkkot sogui nara (불꽃 속의 나라 The Country in Flames) (2007)