Why Fantasy is not a Book!

About a billion of people in the world are reading and enjoying fictions these days. Even now, while I am writing this blog entry, at least a million of people might read fantasy books. Many people usually entertained themselves by reading or seeing fictions which contain fantastical content. Even in past, people like to see public drama. From these, we can infer that fantasy and science fictions are popular books between human beings.

Europe is well known for people as the house of fantasy. This is because many famous fictions such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter were published in Europe. The governments in Europe accepted these novels as one type of literatures. So, fantasy writers can live magnificently and earn a lot of money if they hit a jackpot. However, this is only the news from foreign countries. In Korea, fictions are not treated as a pure literature. There are several reasons for that. 

This is famous author of Korea, Young Do Lee.

First, there are so many people who write fantasies. Even people who don’t know about fantasy are writing it with low-grade background. They just start it by impatient passion and illusions. These people are who delegitimize the honor and true value of fantasy. I think this should be fixed. Although many people say that the writing improves when the writer practices, people who are going to give up soon should not post their writings.

In addition, there are not unique fictions which have the characteristic of Korea. Except for few works such as The Bird which drink tears, most writings are similar with western fictions. They have the backgrounds of Lord of the Rings and the culture of The Chronicles of Narnia. This is the most important and worst reason that Korean fantasies are not admitted as the pure literature.

It is really hard to put one country’s view of the world on one writing. However, I will try to find out the true value of our country’s heritage and struggle for the future of Korean fantasies.