The Fantastically Dark World of K-Lit

This essay was co-written by Charlotte Hammond, a Seoul-based American writer and copywriter. Contemporary South Korean literature has yet to take off in the way of South Korean cinema, cuisine or popular music. It hasn’t garnered global attention to the degree of the aforementioned mediums and may not have captured adequate attention even at home. The Korea Herald recently described the country’s literary scene as “moribund,” in a story focused on a plagiarism scandal [http://www.koreaherald.c