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[Ha Jae-Gun's hidden The Malice, an entirely different literacy sensibility pierced through the hearts of readers all around the globe.]
[The first Korean writer to be awarded the Prix Goncourt award from France, the story of the life of a modern man with commercialized emotions.]
Oh Myung-Suk's prediction did not stop at just a fuss. Once Eden Smith was revealed to be Ha Jae-Gun, the Korean literary world was flipped upside down.
Ha Jae-Gun had won the Digital Literature Award and the Modern Youth Literature Award in the past, but the outstanding achievements he had made so far were the secondary content created from his genre literature works.
In commercial terms, it was the first time that a Korean writer, who had established historic records, was awarded the Prix Goncourt Literature award. He had accomplished the feat, which even famous French writers had longed for the very same honor at the young age of thirty. It would be strange for there not to be a fuss made in Korea, where boundaries between genre and literary circles were strict.
The people who had been criticizing Ha Jae-Gun’s literary world with commercialization were mostly at a loss for words.
It was the same for the critics. Those who had been criticizing Ha Jae-Gun were being criticized by netizens on social media.
- Kekeke (self-proclaimed) Mr. Critic? The facts are out now, do you not have anything else to say? Please share with us your review after reading The Malice.
- You deleted the post where you mentioned Ha Jae-Gun was a frog in the well, citing The Malice as an example. But so what? That post has been screenshotted and is being shared on the internet.
- Mr. Critic? You’ve been scathingly criticizing how Ha...
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