Young-Ha Kim Biography

1968 birth year I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Kim Young-debut ha's book, launched his writing career and earned him the prized Munhak-dongne prize in 1996. He published five novels and four collections of short stories after that, earning him the title of the most gifted and prolific Korean author of his generation. Kim's novels and short tales are primarily concerned with expressing a new style of sensitivity to the thrills and tragedies of existence as experienced by Koreans in the dynamic environment of contemporary globalization. As is frequently the case with globally known post-modern authors, Kim tries to embark on a thrilling and provocative crossing of the borders of high and low genres of storytelling in his pursuit of a literary style. His historical book Black Flower depicts the tale of the first generation of Korean immigrants who were made to work as slaves on a Mexican plantation and eventually took part in a military insurrection under Pancho Villa. The iconic film Titanic, which serves as an example of a traditional Bildungsroman sea voyage story, as well as the Korean history of immigration and exile, served as sources of inspiration for this book. Kim presents a North Korean spy and his family in Seoul in the form of criminal fiction blended with a condensed family drama and naturalist picture of ordinary life in his fourth novel, The Empire of Light. This emphasizes the issue of human identity in a democratic and consumerist Korean society. In 2010, the book was released in the US with the alternative title Your Republic Is Calling You.

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