Young-ha Kim Libros

The debut English-language collection of one of South Koreas most distinctive and accomplished sci-fi authors

Yumi's grandmother cuts up a red silk vest and uses two pieces to make Yumi a blessing pouch for the Lunar New Year.

When the latest victim of a serial rapist is found alive, the media is determined not to let the fragile woman have any peace until they get all the facts. But it's not the type of story that would attract gossip reporter Tae-Ha-not until those same pressing members of the press are murdered one by one. Is it just a cruel prank, or does his nine-tailed companion have something to do with their deaths?

North Korean spy Gi-yeong, who has been living undercover in South Korea with his wife and daughter, leaves his job as foreign film importer to travel to the North after he is suddently called back to headquarters after twenty-one years.

A collection of wild, dark, erotic stories, including the blackly funny tale of a former serial killer suffering from memory loss, who sets his sights on one final target: his daughter's boyfriend.

I don't encourage murder. I have no interest in one person killing another. I only want to draw out morbid desires, imprisoned deep in the unconscious. This lust, once freed, starts growing. Their imaginations run free, and they soon discover their potential... They are waiting for someone like me.A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the lost and wounded of big-city Seoul, suggesting solace in suicide. Wandering through the bright lights of their high-urban existence, C and K are brothers who fall in love with the same woman - Se-yeon. As their lives intersect, they tear at each other in a struggle to find connection in their fast-paced, atomized world.Dreamlike and cinematic, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself brilliantly affirms Young-ha Kim as Korea's leading young literary master.

This book describes a new control design technique called Coefficient Diagram Method (CDM), whereby practical control engineers without deep control theories and mathematics background can design a good controller for their specific plants. In addition, control experts can solve some complicated design problems. Since the CDM was first introduced in 1998, it reveals from the literature that CDM has provided successful controller designs for a variety of practical control problems. In the last two decades, a great deal of research has been done on CDM, while a growing number of researchers want to learn and utilize the method. However, there has been no textbook to learn it systematically so far. This book is motivated by such a need. It is also suitable as a textbook or reference book for master programs in control engineering. ​

Liebe, Sex und Leben. Keiner ist mehr in nur einer Welt. Mehrfach-realitäten, Internet, Handys. Ein schneller Wandel. Grenzen zwischen Erlebtem und Fiktion verschwimmen. 10 atemberaubende Kurzthriller. Gänsehaut, Suspensegefühl, Erotik. Schauplatz der Handlung der neuen Erzählungen von Kim Young-ha ist meist das gegenwärtige Südkorea. Ein zufälliges Aufeinanderprallen in der U-Bahn. Die Frau, eine Schauspielerin, findet danach einen Piepser in ihrer Tasche. Sie wartet auf die Vibration, darauf, dass der Unbekannte Kontakt aufnimmt, während sie eine Sexszene dreht. Am Ende aber sieht alles anders aus. Eine Kaufhausdiebin. Menschen, die sich einen ekstatischen Kick durch Blitze holen. Ein Mord. Kleine Geschehnisse, scheinbare Zufälle, bringen die Welt der ProtagonistInnen durcheinander. Und dann beginnt die Zeit manchmal, rückwärts zu laufen.

Der nordkoreanische Spion Gi-yeong Kim lebt seit 20 Jahren in Seoul und hat sich in die Gesellschaft integriert. Plötzlich erhält er eine E-Mail, die ihn zurück nach Pjöngjang ruft, was für ihn wie ein Todesurteil erscheinen könnte.

Tierarzt Byongsu Kim (70) ist »pensionierter« Serienmörder. Er verbringt seine Zeit damit, Klassiker zu lesen und Gedichte zu schreiben. Kurz nachdem er in seinem Viertel einem Mann begegnet, den er als seinesgleichen erkennt, wird bei ihm beginnende Demenz diagnostiziert. Um seine Tochter zu beschützen, plant der alte Mann, mit seinem schwindenden Gedächtnis kämpfend, einen letzten Mord.