Call for speculative fiction on Korea

Call for contributions! Imagine and create a different Korea!

Are you a journalist, academic, student, policy analyst—or even a politician—with ideas you can’t quite publish in an article, academic paper, report, or op-ed? Here’s your chance to explore those ideas freely, with imagination as your only constraint.

Submit a piece of short speculative fiction centered on South or North Korea to Junotane Korea. This is your opportunity to bend reality, reimagine the past, stretch the present, or peer into the future—through fiction.

What is speculative fiction?

Speculative fiction is the broad umbrella that covers genres such as science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, dystopia, the absurd, and the uncanny. At its core, is a tool. It asks, what if?

What if Korea had unified in the 1980s? What if North Korea became a Silicon Valley of surveillance tech? What if a climate catastrophe pushes Seoul underwater and Busan becomes the new capital? What if K-Pop leads to the collapse of South Korea, and a future generation finds a buried server full of it i…