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What is the modern Korean society and how can its imagined geography be mapped? The purpose of this paper is to compare and consider the novels which are published by contemporary two young writers at nearly the same time. Then we have to notice that a
character called YouHee appears in these two novels. The name, Youhee, rouses paly : Youhee [juhi] and play [juhi] are homophone in Korean. If the play is dealt with as the main story in novels, the novels no longer stay in realism.
While in her novels, Jeong, E-hyon describes the world of the citizens who belong to the inside of the system, in her novels, Park, Joo-young wants to show the similarity between her novels and the world of monks in that the monks and she are enslaved by passion for transcending the system and reaching the world of sacredness.
While the former is filled with Public morals and sneer, the latter is filled with attraction of books. In this world like colossal shopping malls, the former pursues trivial rationality but the latter denies all the worlds except the world of books.