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Park Min-kyu
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	South Korea
Period	1968-present

In this Korean name, the family name is 박.

Park Min-kyu (born 박민규) (Korean: 박) is a South Korean writer.

Life

Park Min-gyu was born in Ulsan, a city in the very southeast of South Korea in 1968. He graduated from Chungang University. He published his first novels. Legend Of the World's Superheroes(Chigu yongung chonsol) and The Sammi Superstars' Last Fan Club (Sammi syuposuta oe majimak paenkullob), in 2003 and these works earned him the Munhak Dongne New Author Award and the Hankyoryeh Literary Prize for the same year. His short story Raccoon World (Komawo, kwayon neoguri-ya) was included in the 2005 Yi Sang Literary Award Collection.

Park’s most clearly evident characteristic is his keen, often absurdist sense of humor, which always works in the service of his stories, and never overwhelms them. The world Park describes is the global capitalist one, in which human lives and souls have little impact other than as commercially available entities. His characters are often financially attenuated and have little or no prospects.

Park is famous as a writer and a character, as he affects very long hair and often wears unusual sunglasses that border on goggles. Park’s most recent novel, Ping Pong, was published in 2006.