- Overview
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A novel conveying a realistic message about violence at school that has yet to be eradicated
- Book Intro
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(English) Revenge After School
School violence and social evils are inseparable from each other.
Revenge After School is an anthology of short stories about the bullying of high school students who can no longer be considered criminal minors. Their acts of deviance are not accidental; they are knowingly carried out with cruelty.
The school is a microcosm of society. In one of the stories, the student dominating the other students is the son of the director of the school’s educational development committee. The social positions and wealth of parents create gaps and ranks among students.
“Nausea,” the last story in the anthology by Jang Wuseok, is a carbon copy of reality. Taemin, the president of the math club and the son of a hospital director, makes Muyeong, the president of the boxing club and the son of a janitor at the hospital, use violence against Wuhyeon, a math genius, to make him score zero in a math contest.
Taemin, an intelligent but vicious boy who goes beyond bullying to hire the son of a janitor who works at his father’s hospital to use violence against someone, without getting himself directly involved, is no different from grownups in society who act out of greed and corruption. Although Taemin drops out of school when the truth is exposed, he shows no penitence or remorse, and will probably find his way back into society in a few years, using his intelligence mind.
- About the Author
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Park Sung-shin et al.
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Yun Jayeong, the author of “The Revenge of the Reals,” and Jang Wuseok, the author of “Nausea,” are teachers as well as novelists, which makes their works even more true to reality. By discussing real-life issues through an imagined framework, they make them both more convincing and realistic.
Park Sung-shin won the first prize in the 1st Korea Contents Contest with her scenario, “Miserable Innocence.” She won the grand prize for her scenario, “Thirty Years,” for the 1st Galaxy Tab Samsung Literature Awards. The Third Man, a novel published by Golden Bough, is slated for film production.
Yun Jayeong made her literary debut by receiving the Mystery New Writers Award with her short story, “The Practice Piece,” in 2015. She received the grand prize for the Korea Mystery Literature Award in 2021 with her novel, Detective 3B, and Expert in Traffic Accidents. The Suspicious Graduation Trip, a scientific novel for young adults, was selected as an outstanding scientific novel, and as one of the best books in 2020 by Bookseed.
Since the publication of her novel, The Coffee Ghost and the Barista Detective, the winner of the 2018 New Mystery Writers Award, Yang Suyeon has published various titles including Mahwan, the Barista Detective: the Secret of the Life Painting; Lia’s Family; I Was Born to Live Alone, a book of essays; the audio books Hotel Mama and A Secluded Traveler; books on writing, A Beginner’s Guide to Scenario Writing and Scenario, Oh, Scenario! as well as A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Genre Fiction.
Jang Wuseok made his literary debut by receiving the Mystery New Writers Award in 2014 with his novel, which was made into a film in 2017 and made it to the final stage of the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival. He published the short story, “There Is No Free Lunch,” in The Collection 15th Golden Pen Award Winning Works.
