Kim Un-su made his literary debut when he won the Dong-A Ilbo New Writer’s Award in 2003 with his novella Breaking Up with Friday. His first novel Cabinet won the Munhakdongne Writer’s Award in 2006, and his 2010 novel The Plotters was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time. His 2016 novel Hot Blood was made into a feature-length film, and a television series based on The Plotters is currently in production at Universal Studios. Kim’s works have been translated and published in thirty countries.
1. Life
Kim Un-su was born and raised in the South Korean port city of Busan, where his family has lived for generations. He explored the streets of Busan as a child, walked them with his first girlfriend whom he met at the age of 17, and aimlessly wandered them when he failed his college entrance exam. But he confesses growing tired of his hometown after spending so many years there. He only came to appreciate it again when he revisited his memories of Busan and his seaside home while writing the novel Tteugeoun Pi (뜨거운 피 Hot Blood).
2. Writing
Kim Un-su’s characters are often lonely. Loneliness, according to Kim, is the essence of human nature and stems from people’s misunderstanding that they are the only ones hurt. He believes that “art communicates and shakes hands” to assuage this loneliness.
Based on that belief, Kim creates surreal stories involving dramatic and exaggerated characters. His novel Kaebinit (캐비닛 The Cabinet) is about people who, distrusting the ever-changing world around them, deny their past and erase their memories to create new ones. Seolgyejadeul (설계자들 The Plotters) is a novel based on the premise that there were professional “plotters” behind every history-changing murder. The novel is set to be made into a motion picture directed by Hur Jin-ho. Tteugeoun Pi (뜨거운 피 Hot Blood), which contains many autobiographical elements, follows the lives of thugs, loan sharks, prostitutes, and other shady characters who live by the Busan seaside.
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