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Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
She was the Korean mentee for the 2023–24 Emerging Translators Mentorship at the National Centre for Writing and completed her training at LTI Korea’s Translation Academy.
With roots in K-pop fandom and a love of subcultures, she is especially drawn to stories of desire, relationships, and identity by women and queer writers.
She now lives in Shanghai with her partner and four cats.
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
She was the Korean mentee for the 2023–24 Emerging Translators Mentorship at the National Centre for Writing and completed her training at LTI Korea’s Translation Academy.
With roots in K-pop fandom and a love of subcultures, she is especially drawn to stories of desire, relationships, and identity by women and queer writers.
She now lives in Shanghai with her partner and four cats.
Translator: Joheun Lee
Genres: Fiction, Young Adult
Yosep is a K-pop idol with millions of adoring fans. But for four of them, a poster on the wall just won’t cut it. They have a plan—a perfect, foolproof plan—to get their idol all to themselves.
Kidnapping Yosep seemed like the ultimate act of love. But inside a secluded mansion, plagued by paranoia and with their grip on reality slowly loosening, the women use increasingly disturbing strategies to keep Yosep in their possession. As their angel’s halo slips and their perfect plan unravels, the women must fight not only to keep him, but to keep their secret buried – at all costs. Worship’s never been bloodier.
More than a little unhinged, Holy Boy is an exhilarating descent into the dark side of devotion.
Translated from the Korean by Joheun Lee.
Translator: Joheun Lee
Genres: Fiction, Young Adult
In a future Korea ravaged by dust clouds and the deadly Akanta virus, people slip on virtual reality headsets to indulge in nostalgic simulations of the past rather than face the nightmarish present.
18-year-old Soop - stigmatized due to her brush with Akanta, which causes VR-rejection – is bullied at school for having to live solely in the real world. Her only solace comes from the K-Pop music she listens to on repeat. When a chance encounter brings Soop face-to-face with her idol, Yichae, a super-star whose new music video is being filmed at Soop's high school, she dares hope for a real connection.
But Yichae has her own troubles. She is one of the few remaining ‘real’ human idols. In a K-pop world where virtual stars dominate, Yichae is forced to live up to unattainable beauty and body standards, under the guise of being celebrated for her supposed authenticity.
The Forest Called You is a love letter to K-Pop, romance and high school politics – a novel about staying true to our passions and loving ourselves and each other in an increasingly artificial world.