about the author

Mann Hyung Hur graduated from Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea, and earned a Ph.D. in public policy at the University of Colorado at Denver, USA. He is currently a professor at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. He has published a novel entitled Cyber Beatrice in Korea in 1995, which was the beginning of his professional writing career. He was invited to write serialized stories in the Digital Times and Weekly Donga in Korea. In addition to novels, he has also published more than ten nonfiction books. Beyond the Division has been excerpted from the serialized story collection Nine Stairs@Omega and rewritten into a novella.

about the book

Pilsung and Soon are star-crossed lovers. He is from South Korea, and she is from the North. Their love is so forbidden that when Pilsung tells his boss, she is immediately worried about the police finding out. Soon escapes from North Korea after the shutdown of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex and plans to fake her own death with the help of a police officer in South Korea. Pilsung is out of the loop and spends most of the story looking for his love, not realizing she is supposed to be dead. Soon has been watching Pilsung’s every move, waiting for the right time to reveal herself, only to be heartbroken when she misunderstands a close bond between friends. She decides to leave him, but Pilsung flies to Yanbian to look for her and attempts to smuggle himself into North Korea.

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A PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PROFESSOR, MANN HYUNG HUR’S RECENTLY PUBLISHED NOVEL

I appeared on a television program featured my English novel, Beyond the Division on 17th October 2019. Replying to a reporter’s question, I answered: “I met a female tour guide, when I visited ........

O CONTO SOBRE UM AMOR CONDENADO

A Korean-Brazilian newspaper in Brazil, The Koreapost, has recently introduced my novel, Beyond the Division. The Koreapost, published in Brazilian-Portuguese, writes stories about Koreans in Brazi ........

BEYOND THE DIVISION BECAME THE 3RD ON THE KYOBO BOOKSTORE BEST SELLER LIST IN KOREA

My novel, Beyond the Division, became a third bestselling English novel on the third Sunday of September, 2019 in the Kyobo Book Centre (www.kyobobook.co.kr). The novel was on the 99th on the weekly ........

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