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Journal Article
A Radical Future: Gender and Science Fiction in Contemporary Korean Literature
2023
Overview
Short stories included in the literary magazine Azalea, such as \"Road Kill\" by Park Min-kyu and \"Art and the Acceleration of Gravity\" by Bae Myung Hoon, may qualify as SF-a promising start-but even taken all together, these works did not predict the burgeoning, robust interest in the genre we see today. In less than the five years since my encounter with a disillusioned SF fan in my course, science fiction has become the most popular genre in South Korean literature,4 and as a feminist literary scholar with little knowledge of SF, I was drawn to how this new popularity is led by women writers and a new generation of women readers who are known as \"young feminists\" in their 20s. [...]what is the significance of this phenomenon in the history of South Korean women's literature? Gender role reversal (the ship's captain is a woman) and gestures toward gender fluidity through the robot Bubs (Ŏptong-i in the original)6 added a bridge to feminist elements found in Korean science fiction that will be explored later in this paper. [...]with or without the marketing power of the film or drama series, both science and speculative fiction by a young generation of South Korean writers-the majority of them women-have been leading bestsellers in the print book market for the last several years, a phenomenon reflected in recent English translations of Korean SF and speculative fiction including On Origin of Species and Other Stories (2021) and I am Waiting For You (2021) both by Kim Boyoung (b.1973); Readymade Boddhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction (2019); and Cursed Bunny (2021) by Chung Bora (Chŏng Pora, b.1976), to name just a few. Along with articles on scientific knowledge, futuristic, apocalyptic, and fictional works with scientific themes by writers like Han Nagwŏn (1924-2007) were serialized in magazines for young adults (Zur 191-214),8 and as Ko Changwŏn's article explains, the target audience for SF- including occasional translations of foreign works-was limited to children and young adults until the 1990s (Ko 231).
