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As shown in the directional tendency of the etymology of “存在” and that of “existence,” the traditional spatial awareness in northeast Asia is an introverted one, expressed in the concept of “boundary space.” With the advent of the modern era, boundary space has drastically been reduced by the state-level housing measurement policy or social desire, resulting problems like the isolation and alienation of individuals and the emergence of spatial minorities. Although, in the relation between space and man, the isolation of man and prescription of their life by space had happened in the past and will continue in future, never has human solitude shackled by a residential space, a “house,” been as markedly expressed as in the recent some 20 years of Korean and Japanese literature. Such a turn to space, in this study, shall be named “spatial literature.” A study of spatial literature is an attempt, focusing on the concept of space, to examine the relation between the existence of man and space, spatial isolation, and alienation. Spatial literature has literary and social significance in that it deals with issues on the destruction of the inner mind of man, with regard to the economic policies and housing problems, which statistics cannot express. The reason why literary work like Rent by Kim, Gyeong-Eun, A Story of Staying at Gap-eul Gosiwon by Park, Min-Gyu, The Legend of A Senior by Tomoyuki Hoshino, and House by Zhang Yue Ran, all of which tackle the youth generation’s problems concerning space, is attracting much attention these days is because these writers, all born in the second half of the 1960s, have observed the human existence that emerges in the change of social awareness of space that they had experienced.