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Read that Post Again: Scandal by Ha Jae-young scrap
by Jang Sungkyu
October 23, 2014
Author Bio 작가 소개
Ha Jae-young
논픽션 작가. 2006년 계간 〈아시아〉에 단편소설을 발표하며 등단했고 2018년부터 논픽션을 쓰고 있다. 버려진 개들의 삶과 죽음을 담은 르포 《아무도 미워하지 않는 개의 죽음》, 집과 여성에 대한 자전적 에세이 《친애하는 나의 집에게》, 어린이를 위한 동물권 논픽션 《운동화 신은 우탄이》를 썼다. 개인의 미시적 서사가 사회에 대한 증언으로 확장하는 이야기, 공적 주제가 한 사람의 내밀한 삶으로 수렴하는 이야기, 그리하여 불완전한 내가 불완전한 타자와 연결되는 글쓰기를 소망한다.
Ha Jae-young is a young writer. She belongs to the generation more comfortable with the new media of the Internet and Twitter than print media, an ease that is apparent in her first novel, Scandal.
The narrative of Scandal is quite straightforward: an actress dies, and her death was somehow facilitated by rumors circulating on the Internet. In today’s post-industrial society, the truth is what is reconstructed out of numerous rumors. Nobody knows the truth of the scandal involving the dead actress. When the public accepts rumor as truth, however, and when the rumor spreads like wildfire via online comments, groundless rumor becomes accepted as truth. Messages in the new media are easily disseminated thanks to their anonymity, a process in which we as members of the general public often play at least a passive role.
Ha Jae-young’s work may appear superficial to some. Her work, however, offers much more than mere fluff or light satire of contemporary mores. Above all, her work focuses on what lies beyond the mores that govern our daily lives. Beyond the story of an actress’s death linked to a scandal is a razor-sharp intellect that cuts through the mechanism of how rumors and online comments distort and reconstruct “truth.” This is what saves Ha Jae-young’s Scandal from superficiality. The reader of Scandal is sure to think twice about taking online comments at face value in the future. 
Writer 필자 소개
Jang Sungkyu
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