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In order to study the peculiarity of Bok Ko-hill as a writer, first of all, his belief on adoption of English as an official language needs to be considered. His assertion on adoption of English as an official language raised arguments in our society. His opinion is the consequence of a realistic reflection that the globalization rapidly spreads all over the world, and the fluent use of English as an international language should be required(Furthermore, he insisted on the use of English as a mother tongue). This is closely related with his specific imaginative faculty of SF prospecting our future on the basis of science and technology in variety fields. In addition, this has resulted from his outsider mind as a bilinguist(the tragic mind born from the outside of global culture), before starting a career as a writer. It could be predicted why he has often convinced the realistic power to rationality because he has been too sensitive to this matter. Although continuous publishing of Science Fictions under our literary circumstance that a genre literature(genre novel) has been treated as a public literature and excluded from a main stream(nongenre novel), Bok Ko-hill is the only writer who have a solid position on the main stream of literature. In the article dealing with his personal literary view, he has described that literature is a mouthpiece of ‘bestiality(instinct)’ in opposition to ‘humanity(civilization)’ makes the literature limited. He is an very unusual writer to make a balance in our literary world biased to bestiality. However, it is quite questionable whether himself is on the balance for this matter. Rather, his current position as a social critic is not likely harmonizing bestiality and humanity but more likely to the position biased humanity. His loss of balance might have been occured since he got directly involved in realistic issues as a social critic in mid 90's. Moreover, it should be fundamentally resulted from the two ideologies, the capitalism as an economy system and economic liberalism basis of its ideology, that he has believed. These also has been come from the modern world view including Marxism and aggressive violent Nationalism, which is often appointed by Bok Ko-hill as the original source of our social problems. With the writer dealing with ‘the global empire in 3000's’, it would be no doubt to expect the prospect to go beyond the limitation of the current globalism focused on economy and its sequential global village.