Focused Issue
JFA 34.2 – Table of Contents
Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean Speculative Fiction
Guest Editors Haerin Shin and Sang-Keun Yoo
Introduction
Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean Speculative Fiction
Sang-Keun Yoo
A Radical Future: Gender and Science Fiction in Contemporary Korean Literature
Ji-Eun Lee
Two Can Play This Squid Game: The Japanese Entanglements of South Korean Speculative Fiction
Se Young Kim
Becoming a Ghost: Newtrospective Representation of Historical Violence Through Virtual Reality Media in Gina Kim’s Bloodless
Sang-Keun Yoo
Life Reset: Resisting Gamified Life in South Korean Speculative Webtoons
Sang Eun Eunice Lee
Design Fiction
Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized “수능”: A Design-Fictional Approach to Korea
Seo-Young Chu
“Genre Narratives Are Powerful Tools to Illustrate the Beauty of an Unfamiliar World”: Haerin Shin’s Interview with SF novelist Bo-Young Kim
Translated by Sang-Keun Yoo
“Those Left on Earth Are Equally Significant”: Sang-Keun Yoo’s Interview with Space Sweepers Director Sung-hee Jo
Translated by Sang-Keun Yoo
“This Inexplicable Complexity That Underscores Our Humanity”: Sang-Keun Yoo’s Interview With The School Nurse Files Director Kyoung-mi Lee
Translated by Sang-Keun Yoo
REVIEWS
Cli-Fi, Noir, and The Nonhuman Subject in Netflix’s The Silent Sea (2021)
Rev. by Katrina Younes