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Set in the multicultural Chicago, Welsh’s short story revolves around an amusing tiff between the Korean chef of a restaurant, “Mystic Asia.” and Kendra, a white blonde woman who accuses the chef of kidnapping and cooking her pet dog. This seemingly innocuous episode of cultural misunderstanding, however, invites the reader to reexamine the difficulty of forming a cosmopolitan community as well as the new possibility of such community opened up by Welsh’s story. This essay undertakes two tasks. First, it briefly analyzes the flawed portrayal of Korea in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, a contemporary novel misleadingly celebrated for its embodiment of cosmopolitanism. In so doing, my essay asserts the need of distinguishing between Mitchell’s utopian novel and Welsh’s story that thoroughly investigates the downside of multiculturalism. The latter part of the essay borrows from Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of “inoperative community” in order to explain the problematic relationships displayed by the characters of Welsh’s story. I conclude that “The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park” provides a better example of cosmopolitan literature than Mitchell’s touristic novel does. This is because cosmopolitan literature emerges in revealing the daily culture war of different people(s) and portraying an “inoperative community” composed of the incompatible people(s).