| Kim Jung-hyuk | |
| Birth Place: | Kimcheon, Korea |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | Korean |
| Period: | 2000-present |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Language: | Korean |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul: | 김중혁 |
| Rr: | Kim Jung-hyuk |
| Mr: | Kim Chunghyŏk |
Kim Jung-hyuk is a Korean author and cartoonist.[1]
Born in Kimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province in 1971, Kim has written professional book reviews for an online bookstore, handled DVDs for a bookstore that specializes in art, writing music columns for a pop culture magazine, and contributed for a restaurant industry magazine. In addition to literature, he is interested in a wide range of fields. Given his interest in drawing and cartoons, he has drawn his own illustrations for his story collections and works freelance as a cartoonist.[2]
Characters with unusual personalities or rare jobs also appear in his stories: a “conceptual inventor” who confines himself underground and invents useless concepts; a man who wanders in search of “Banana, Inc.” with a rough map left behind by a friend who committed suicide; a map surveyor who searches for his direction in life, using a wooden Eskimo map.
This focus on objects instead of characters is extremely unusual in Korean fiction.[3]
Short Story Collections