The story, which has been translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl, appears in your forthcoming collection, "Snowy Day and Other Stories," translated by Fenkl and Yoosup Chang. It will be published by Penguin Press in February.
I wrote this story at a time when fundamental changes were taking place in Korean society. The military dictatorship that had ruled for decades was falling, democratization was occurring, and the Seoul Olympics were being held.
However, depicting a person who claimed to be a spy for North Korea was still a sensitive issue that touched on major taboos in Korean society at the time, so I had to write it with some discretion.
Now the stories I wrote back then are meeting new readers in English, across the vast span of thirty or forty years. And I’m thankful for this amazing opportunity.
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