Lee Mankyo
Lee Mankyo (born in 1967; Hangul: 이만교) is a South Korean writer, whose works have been turned into Korean films. Work Lee Mankyo's work features verbal energy which brings to mind a garrulous exchange between gossipers. The various happenings in the lives of ordinary urbanites, which constitute Lee's fiction, are often of serious nature entailing many social implications, yet their style of being told is invariably lighthearted and jovial. In Marriage Is an Act of Madness, Lee's most well-known novel which was made into a movie by the same title, a series of amusing and frank conversations between two lovers strip away the layers of hypocrisy and falsehood surrounding marriage, sex and love in modern age. Another full-length novel, Will You Come To Meokko's House To Play? paints an entertaining as well as insightful picture of a family dynamics during the IMF crisis of 1997. The childlike frankness of the narrator allows candid view of the gravity of the situation and also enables moments of laughter as well as pathos in the novel. Lee has stated that for him “any object, person or situation characterized by authority, exclusivity or piety excites a desire to make light of them--to make them