The Genre Is Comedy

Winner of the Hankyoreh Literary Award, Young Writer Award, and Yi Sang Literary Award (Excellence Prize)
A new work by award-winning author Park Seo-ryeon

A new novel has arrived from Park Seo-ryeon, who has swept Korea's most prestigious literary prizes, including the Hankyoreh Literary Award, Young Writer Award, Yi Sang Literary Award (Excellence Prize), and Kim Seung-ok Literary Award (Excellence Prize). Its name: The Genre Is Comedy!
The word most often used to describe Park Seo-ryeon is always "versatile."
From "You wouldn't think the light passing through a single author's prism could be this colorful" (Gu Byeong-mo's endorsement of Confession Loop) to "How can one person have written all of these?" (Kim Cho-yeop's endorsement of Me, Me, Madeleine)—she is "a hexagonal novelist" of "full spectrum" brilliance who "ventures into experiments and adventures across every genre of fiction and writing," "transcending genre, time, and space." Now this author presents a young adult novel. Set around a school club—the crown jewel of any school story—but not a band, drama club, or broadcasting crew. A comedy club. A club? The crown jewel of school stories! And not band, drama, or broadcasting—comedy? How fun is that going to be!
So The Genre Is Comedy is the story of four girls who cry, laugh, bicker, and clash in their quest to make people laugh. It's a story that beautifully shows how you can build something genuine even when you're clumsy and unskilled, even when you've charged in without reason or plan, even when everything's a mess. "If you cry, you lose; if you get a laugh, you win"—but it's okay to lose, and it's okay to win. Because none of it is failure. It's the process of finding what you love, or reaching toward a dream. One clap of the hands, and the curtain rises on this story.