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	A Tree Bearing Fruits of Sleep Dreams With its Root **************** Park Sangryung 2002/89-8281-542-2/288p, 153X224 The author's fourth work, since his last one The Peace of Mind three years ago. In this book, the author tries to unfold "the ultimate ego," drilling to the core of religion, myth and daydreams. His speculations spread from the complicated religious system, such as introspection and sudden enlightenment in Zen Buddhism, sacrifice and salvation in Christianity, alchemy, and collective unconsciousness, to an outlook on the world in the Book of Changes.
	Until It Flows into a River Shin Kyoungsook 1998/89-8281-130-3/352p, 153X224 Created in the late 1980s, this short story collection shows the author's passion for writing. Since this milestone work, the Shin Kyongsook literature has taken the lead in literature of the 90s, with her own deeply ringing allegory, the lyrical and orthodox style, the rumination of farming society symbolized by father and mother, and compassion for the poor and the weak.
	Sound of a Bell Shin Kyoungsook 2003/89-8281-643-7/296p, 153X224 In her fifth novel, author Shin Kyungsook explores new territory through different means. Absence of Intimacy, Solitude in the City, Full-Heartedness in Hometown, collide and get entangled with one another, forming a far deeper world. With characters who are lonesome and unhappy, but have love and motherhood, the author touches the theme of consideration, forgiveness, control of mind, new relationships and motherhood.
	Talking to a Stranger************************************************ Eun Heekyoung 1996/89-8281-024-2/360p, 153X224 This is Eun Heekyoung's first collection of short stories. In these nine stories, Eun gives a gentle, funny, and yet critical treatment of the problematical relationship between women and romance. The heroines, often pained with the vicissitudes of failed love and doomed marriages, eventually find their salvation by rejecting traditional myths of romance. However, Eun's fictional exposure into the secret side of love never becomes fatalistic or cynical. Instead, her honest stories create a pathos that leads the reader towards sympathy, sensitivity and above all else recognition.
	Station of water Cheon Kyounglyn 2003/89-8281-670-4/358p, 153X224 A collection of works attracting the readers with their passionate sentiments. Ceon Kyounglyn, the author, seems to get the summit of her literature in this latest collection in 7 years, with abundant aphorisms of life and indescribably smooth metaphors. The readers of this collection will join the author's risky passion toward violation of taboos, with a strong tense.
	A Sparkling Ecstatic Moment * Seong Seokjae 2003/89-8281-626-7/232p, 128X188 This is a small collection of short stories full of various accidents and extraordinary characters -illegal hunters, heads of rural villages, a young soldier moved by a bowl of noodles, people who live by the pleasure of intervening in others' affairs while neglecting their own business, people with a new refined and sophisticated way of interfering. It also includes a serious tone-deaf person who can sing only one song called "Parental love," a softhearted gangster who is not accustomed to favors by others, many experts of society obstinate about accepting different opinions, as well as mothers. Events arise in the story, which can happen anytime and anywhere, will be familiar to almost anyone as they may arouse fury, sadness and even delight. Through the series of events in the story, readers will also be moved by unexpected twists. Some scenes may evoke laughter. This is the way of reading the world of Seong Seokjae, with respect to relating people to people and people to the world.
	The Disabled Who Loved Me**************************************** Choi Inseok 1998/89-8281-146-X/272p, 153X224 The fourth collection of stories by the author reputed for originality. This book deals with the issue of salvation of human nature in the degraded world. There is tragedy and an attractive power that reaches out to a vast audience. He sensually captures the complications of life and criticizes the fictitious reality allegorically. His stories, therefore, reveal an intensity and enthusiasm even between lines.
	Pulanseo the Optician Cho Kyoungran 1997/89-8281-078-1/344p, 153X224 Cho shows her adeptness in writing fiction. Common to her short stories is an outstanding narrative style marked by an extraordinary sense of form, descriptive thoroughness, and strikingly exquisite symbolism.
	When I was Still a Kid Kim Yeonsoo 2002/89-8281-593-7/288p, 153X224 This is a collection of a series of novels he started to write before publishing his first collection. In this publication, the author reflects on the memories of his early years, specifically from childhood to before reaching 20. And we can peep into a new style of writing different from the established ones in this book, which the writer confesses to readers. He also shares a series of intimate and familiar stories to the readers of the same generation. This new approach must have come from his introspection and enlightenment in preparing for his next work. In the process of tracing back to the source of his works, he offers a moving account of his memories written in pencil.