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Choi Eunmi (The romanization preferred by the author according to LTI Korea[1] ) (최은미; born 1978) is one of the few South Korean novelists of the twenty-first century to incorporate Buddhist cosmology into her fictional universe. However, her novels are a far cry from portraying a merciful and benevolent Western Paradise. In Choi's view, people are no different than animals that follow instinct over reason, or hungry ghosts characterized by stinginess, greed, and jealousy. Naturally, the world where such people live and interact with one another, as Choi sees it, is hell. Her second short story collection Mokryeon jeongjeon (목련정전 Lotus Canon) is a chilling portrayal of hell, except she chooses to tell it like an old folk tale. The title piece "Mokryeon jeongjeon" draws on Buddhist themes, having been adapted into a short story from the Buddhist scripture Lotus Sutra.
Book reviewer Geum Jeong-yeon objects to seeing Choi's fictional realm as a kind of survival-of-the-fittest natural world that existed before the dawn of civilization:
"But that cannot be a sufficient answer; humans are animals, but nature is not hell. What creates hell is therefore not our animal side but our human side—things like our ability to think, use language, build relationships, and create societies. If these are the source of our damnation, then there can be no salvation. We have no choice but to live in hell because we are human. Does this sound like a trap to you? There is no need to raise the alarm, however. This is (of course) a novel, and Choi is a bit of a mischievous writer who enjoys pushing her characters into her elaborately designed hell and observing how they fare. But don’t let your guard down either. You'll realize that the hells of reality depicted by the nine short stories in Mokyreon jeongjeon are scenes you’ve already seen several times elsewhere. That is, here, in twenty-first-century South Korea. If you find Choi's version of hell shocking, that’s probably why."[2]
^"최은미 | Digital Library of Korean Literature (LTI Korea)". library.ltikorea.or.kr. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
^"약속된 지옥, 지금 여기 우리의 이야기". Hankook Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 2017-07-21.
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