Film, TV and Translation Rights

They interpret contemporary Korean reality through singular characters and stories. Across very different genres, each novel centers on someone who refuses to conform to the order around them: in the tech industry, in a mining town, in a prison, on a theater stage, in the African bush.

Key One Yeom (염기원) is a South Korean novelist who interprets contemporary Korean reality through singular characters and stories. His six novels range from workplace drama and comic crime to a boxing story, a thriller and a tale of African wild dogs, but at the center of each stands someone who will not conform to the order around them. A serial startup founder who still works as an IT consultant, he writes from inside the systems his characters push against. His first novel, Goody Jeanne d'Arc, won the 5th Hwangsanbeol Young Writers' Award.

Film and TV rights are currently available for The Ghosts of Daehak-ro, Blue Eye, Schoolgirl Champ King Arthur, Life Is Like Bitcoin and Goody Jeanne d'Arc. For Going After My Damn Brother, the short stories and all translation rights, availability is confirmed on request.

All six novels are published in Korean. English loglines, synopses and an author bio are available as a pitch pack, and full English translations of four short stories are available on request.

Write through the Contact page (the email address is shown there) with the title you are interested in and the intended format (film, series, animation or translation).