부루마블에 평양이 있다면

A couple nine years together still cannot bring themselves to marry. Then a show home opens in Yongin, south of Seoul, for a new town in Kaesong, across the border, and a model flat for Pyongyang apartments stands on the bank of the Han with Namsan Tower in view: in a South Korea preparing for unification, buyers can reserve homes in the North that have not been built. The idea of a first home in North Korea sets off a quarrel over whether the couple's marriage is possible in a divided land at all, and the story turns division, territory and the peninsula's future into wry, bittersweet comedy.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Genres

Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea

First published

2016 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

36 when first published