- Overview
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A realistic novella depicting the aging society with its confusion and disarray.
- Book Intro
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(Japanese) あなたの老後
ジャン・ギルド(Jang gildo)は国民年金公団の老齢年金TFチームのチーム長として働いた後、退職した。使命感と忠誠心で一丸となって誰よりも自身の任務を誠実に遂行していた彼は退職後に、勤めていた組織と対立する身となる。
持病で長い間病床に伏しているジャン・ギルドの9歳上の妻が、昔から老齢年金を納めており、年金の受給者であることを知ったのだ。老齢人口の爆発的な増加で年金が底をつく危機に瀕した年金公団は、組織的に秘密裏に受給者たちを消しており、今度は彼の妻であるハン・スリョンもその対象になる。国と組織が何よりも大事だったジャン・ギルドは、自分の妻が公団の除去対象になったことで困惑し、妻の死を防ごうと必死に努力する。ところが、同僚や後輩の相次ぐ殺害の企てに結局妻は命を失うことになるのだが…。イメージング著作権契約
(English) Your Later Years
This novella is set in a time when 3 young people have to support 7 old people, a horrible future that might soon arrive. With the humor of exaggeration and the unique wit of the writer, the novel relates a “hatred of old people” for the first time in Korean literature.
Jang Gil-do retires after working as team leader of the old-age pension taskforce at the National Pension Service. He has worked hard doing his job with responsibility and loyalty but after retirement, he comes to fight against his old workplace. His wife Su-ryeon, 9 years older and suffering from a chronic illness, is drawing a pension from the fund that she paid into during her working life. Jang Gil-do finds out that the explosive increase in the number of recipients has led to the depletion of the fund, and so the National Pension Service is trying to secretly get rid of pensioners. His wife becomes one of those who must be eliminated.
A man loyal to his nation and his organization, Jang Gil-do becomes confused and disoriented as his wife is targeted for elimination. He makes desperate efforts to prevent her death. The continuous attempts by his ex-colleagues and juniors to kill his wife end up eventually succeeding, and he too faces an untimely demise.
- About the Author
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Park Hyoungsu
Park Hyoung-su, born in Chuncheon in 1972, made his literary debut in 2000 as a rookie writer recommended by Hyundae Munhak. He has published the novel Nana at Dawn and several collections of short stories such as Things You Should Know Before Raising a Rabbit, Fiction at Midnight, Handmade Fiction, and Krabi.
He has received the Daesan Literary Fiction Award, Today’s Young Artist Award, and the Kim Yu-jeong Literary Award.
- Selection
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Selected for 2018 Sharing Literature Project by Arts Council Korea