김경욱
Born 1970 · South Korea
Yi Sang 2016 · Winner
Cheongugui mun
Title translated by AI:“Heaven's Gate”
Kim Kyung-uk · 45 when first published
Short story · 328 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A woman who nurses her dying father finds herself secretly wishing for his death, caught between her own ruined life and his long-postponed end.
Yi Sang 2012 · Excellence prize
Seupeurei
Title translated by AI:“Spray”
Kim Kyung-uk · 41 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:A department-store shoe salesman who lives by a rigid routine and dreads nothing more than making a mistake carries home, by accident, a parcel meant for another flat, and the slip sets events in motion.
Yi Sang 2011 · Excellence prize
Bikbeuradeo
Title translated by AI:“Big Brother”
Kim Kyung-uk · 40 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:A pastor's son who bowed to his domineering father now writes sermons of his own, locked in his study, and still needs a calming pill before the pulpit, forever wondering how his brilliant, rebellious older brother would have done it.
Yi Sang 2006 · Excellence prize
Wiheomhan dokseo
Title translated by AI:“Dangerous Reading”
Kim Kyung-uk · 35 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:A bibliotherapist who prescribes books the way a doctor prescribes medicine takes on a client who calls herself worthless and wants a book that will help her end a seven-year relationship, and finds her harder to read than any text.
Yi Sang 2005 · Excellence prize
Nabireul wihan allibai
Title translated by AI:“An Alibi for the Butterfly”
Kim Kyung-uk · 34 when first published
Short story
Yi Sang 2003 · Excellence prize
Goyangiui sasaenghwal
Title translated by AI:“The Private Life of Cats”
Kim Kyung-uk · 32 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:A married man becomes set on meeting a woman he knows only by her chat name, Cat, and roams about looking for a way into her room and for the tree at which she has said she will be waiting.