Books by Sunyoung Park

Coming from a country renowned for its hi-tech industry and ultraspeed broadband yet mired in the unfinished Cold War, South Korean science fiction offers us fresh perspectives on global technoindustrial modernity and its human consequences. The book also features a critical introduction, an essay on SF fandom in South Korea, and contextualizing information and annotations for each story.

Experts in 1980s Korean history, literature, film, art, and music provide new insights into one of the most crucial decades in South Korean history in this volume. The book demonstrates how an era that is often associated with radical politics was, in effect, the catalyst for the flourishing of democratic and liberal values in South Korea.

From the 1910s to the 1940s, a wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the Korean cultural scene with differing agendas but shared demands for equality and social justice. Sunyoung Park reconstructs the complex mosaic of colonial leftist culture, focusing on literature as its most fertile and enduring expression.