Cho yeeun

At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious jelly candy that promises an unbreakable bond. As the sun beats down on a muggy summer afternoon, a child separated from her disinterested parents, a single mother striving to create a memorable day on a shoestring budget, and a couple on the brink of splitting up, all end up tasting this ominous candy. Little do they know that a sinister force lurks beneath the innocent facade. The sweet and innocent soon turns grotesque as the jelly becomes the catalyst for a sticky, sweet massacre. Masterfully translated by Yewon Jung, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre weaves a chilling tale of deceptive sweetness and the body horror of slowly melting into your loved ones.

A Novel Of Social Issues Sublimated Into Fantasy! At an amusement park near Seoul, a mysterious jelly seller, who seems to be able to read people’s desires, sells jellies promising that whoever shares them will never be parted from one another. The novel, comprised of nine stories, brings together nine different sets of characters whose paths interlock piece by piece with each turn of the page, every story beginning with the past of the characters and ending on the day of a sweet, sticky, grisly massacre. A neglected child, a precariously employed worker, a job seeker, and a loner more comfortable with online friends than anyone in real life are read out by the jelly seller, who makes their wishes come true and leads them into tragedy.