Korean Fiction

Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but a more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her. Easing into middle age, Siobhan would generally rather have a glazed donut than a romance, but when an old friend asks Siobhan to find her daughter who has disappeared from her dorm, the rookie private detective's search begins at Llewellyn College.

인간의 욕망이 빚어낸 현실세계의 비극을 다룬 추리 스릴러. 엄청난 채무에 시달리는 사람들이 모여서 '운명을 거스르는' 알 수 없는 게임을 벌인다. 처음에는 주눅들어있던 사람들. 그러나 현금 백억이 걸린 게임은 시간이 지나자 점점 활기찬 형태로 변해 간다. 아이러니하게도 배팅하는 액수가 높아질수록, 돈을 딸 확률이 높아질수록 운명을 건 게임은 점점 비극으로 향해간다.

Arguing that North Korea is little more than a carefully constructed Chinese puppet state, the author looks into the heart of this "rogue nation" and finds the Chinese behind much of the terrorism and nuclear weapons manufacturing on the Korean peninsula.

Whale, set in a remote village in South Korea, follows the lives of many linked characters, including Geumbok, an extremely ambitious woman who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who communicates with elephants; and a one-eyed woman who controls honeybees with a whistle. Brimming with surprises and wicked humor, Whale is an adventure-satire of epic proportions by one of the most original voices in international literature.

Couture gowns, press parties, international travel. Rachel Kim is at the top of her game. Girls Forever is now the number one K-pop group in the world, and her fame skyrockets after her viral airport styling attracts the attention of fashion’s biggest names. Her life’s a swirl of technicolour glamour and adoring fans. Rachel can’t imagine shining any brighter. The only thing that’s missing is love—but Rachel’s determined to follow the rules. In her world, falling in love can cost you everything.

Jack Steele survived the first Gulf War, Bosnia, and his time as a UN peacekeeper. As a captain and tank commander, he saw the dark side of war. Two UN officials have gone missing. They were last seen in the Tumen Triangle. A 324-mile river that borders Russia, China, and North Korea, it’s a place few Westerners have heard of or understand. It would be a prize-winning story if he could crack it. Sometimes fate puts a person where they need to be - and then he saw the child fall beneath the ice. When Steele rescued the boy, it was the first domino to fall.

His first case as a Seraph marshal may be his last. When Seraph’s head marshal calls in Miles Kim to help investigate a triple murder, Miles finds three bodies with no simple answers. Why were a water baron, a militia leader, and an information broker meeting in a remote junkyard away from their bodyguards? With no witnesses and no survivors, the case will thrust Miles into the center of a power struggle between the militia and Seraph’s underworld. And no one wants an ex-Meridian police officer prying into their business. Learning the truth will put Miles in the crosshairs of Seraph’s...

목숨을 걸고 전쟁터에 뛰어든 이름 없는 영웅들의 숨겨진 미스터리 1946년, 뉴욕. 출근길에 오른 그레이스는 자동차 사고로 앞뒤가 꽉 막힌 도로를 피해 그랜드센트럴역으로 향한다. 그리고 기차역 벤치 아래에서 '엘레노어 트리그'라는 이름이 적힌 갈색 여행 가방을 발견한다. 그레이스는 호기심을 참지 못하고 가방을 열었다가 레이스로 가지런히 묶어 놓은 사진 한 묶음을 찾아낸다. 10여 장에 가까운 사진은 전부 젊은 여자들의 독사진으로 스물다섯 살이 채 넘지 않은 앳된 모습이다.

미래를 비관해 수명의 대부분을 팔아버린 나는, 얼마 안 되는 여생에서 행복을 잡으려고 혈안이 되지만 무엇을 해도 엉뚱한 결과를 낳는다. 헛돌기만 하는 나를 차가운 눈으로 바라보는 "감시원" 미야기. 그녀를 위해서 사는 것이야말로 가장 행복한 것임을 깨달았을 때, 나의 수명은 2개월도 남지 않았다.

조선 시대, 홍제원 인근에서 연이어 발견되는 의문의 변사체들. 이 변사체들은 하나같이 흰자위가 보이는 눈을 부릅뜨고 가슴팍에는 참혹하리만치 깊이 팬 상처가 사선으로 다섯 줄 길게 늘어져 있는데...

His tour is over, but the war rages on for Dickie, one of the forever-haunted veterans who gave up his soul during the Forgotten War. Here is a glimpse of his story, of the battleground he can never leave. Only death can conclude his final objective: closure, and peace. Join him on his road, the Korean Road, as he battles horrors he carries and those that he meets along the way.

USMC Camp Pendleton, 1951. Jackson Joseph MacKenzie, a seventeen-year-old with a calling, enlists in the US Army. He finds himself hip-deep in the muddy trenches, machine gun nests, human wave attacks, and artillery barrages in the Korean War. Does he have the resiliency to keep moving toward his dream after watching his friends die? Is he a leader or a follower? Will he fold under pressure? Or rise to the top? Questions he must answer before reaching for that coveted prize, an appointment to West Point.

Growing up amid the starvation and oppression of 1990s North Korea, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game, left behind in a hotel room by a rare foreign visitor. As Jun-su painstakingly deciphers the rules of the game in secret, he unlocks an inner world that is at first an antidote and then a threat to the political cult that surrounds him.

Three books in one! Korea x2 (Book One): A CIA director is killed by a North Korean assassin. Three Air Force Pararescuemen and a CIA officer join with the South Korean 707th Brigade, a team of female assassins, to form a team known only by President Reagan and CIA Director Casey as "the Silent Six." Their task: the destruction of the North Korean gangster regime. Also features Silent Six (Book Two) and Putin's Gold (Book Three)!

A young biracial girl joyfully celebrates both her Black and Korean cultures the best way she knows how—with the irresistible power of food!

Soma's mother, T.M. Song, was a storyteller and this is a tale she used to tell her daughters when they were little girls. Her mother had told it to her when she was growing up in a rural village in Korea during the reign of King Kojong.... The underlying lesson is filial piety, respect for one's parents, presented in an engrossing Oriental Cinderella story.

North Korea has achieved a breakthrough with nuclear warheads and is about to arm their strategic missiles - weapons that could set the world ablaze. The Echo Six unit commander, Abe Talley, is ordered to take his men across the 38th Parallel. Their mission is to locate and destroy the nukes, as well as their creators. They must enter the heart of the most secretive, repressive, and brutal nation on Earth - and somehow find a way back.

〈잘 혼나는 기술〉에는 상반된 두 명의 캐릭터가 등장합니다. 자신의 잘못에 대한 반성보다는 늘 다른 사람을 탓하면서 억울해 하는 '도룡이'와 잘못을 저지르더라도 반성하는 척하면 크게 혼나지 않는다고 믿는 '수용이'입니다. 두 캐릭터가 만들어 가는 이야기 속에서 우리 어린이들이 '진심이 가진 힘'을 느낄 수 있기를 바랍니다.

『언젠가 우리가 같은 별을 바라본다면』은 고국을 떠나 70년 만에 필리핀의 한 작은 섬에서 발견된 쑤니 할머니의 젊은 시절을 담은 이야기이다. 작가는 우리나라가 일본에 주권을 빼앗긴 채 가난하고 핍박받던 시절을 맨몸으로 버텨 낸 우리 어머니의 어머니, 아버지의 아버지들의 이야기를 남기고자 집필을 시작했다. A4 용지 스무 장 분량으로 시작한 이야기는 10년의 집필 기간 동안 데이터 유실로 의지가 꺾이기도 하고 모든 것을 원점에서 복기하기를 반복하는 등 우여곡절을 겪은 후, 더욱 진정성과 사실에 근거한 서정적이고 아름다운 소설로 완성되었다.

어느 날 우연히 류현의 품 안으로 날아들다. 검댕 묻은 외로운 별이 천사가 되다.