in a poem by a former monk from this home country of
A spy who works in this country as a film distributor contemplates Magritte's Empire of Lights while waiting for a boat heralded by an emailed Bashō haiku. A captain in this country's army interviews a tubercular minister who dishonestly claims that his betrayal led to the execution of 12 colleagues. An author from this country who recently admitted to plagiarizing Yukio Mishima wrote a novel ending with a writer buying a rosary at the Vatican to honor an illiterate mother of four who disappears at a train station in the capital. After his lover turns away and goes, the speaker of a poem from here gathers an armful of flowers to scatter on the way. The speaker repeats, "Transformed into (*) arrows / let's all go, body and soul!" in a poem by a former monk from this home country of Please Look After Mom, where another author took the rhythm of his poem "Azaleas" from the folk song "Arirang." For 10 points, name this home country of Kyung-sook Shin, Ko Un and Kim Sowol.
A spy who works in this country as a film distributor contemplates Magritte's Empire of Lights while waiting for a boat heralded by an emailed Bashō haiku.
South Korea [or Republic of Korea; or ROK; or Daehan Minguk; accept Korean Empire or Daehan Jaeguk] (The first two novels are Kim young-ha's Your Republic is Calling You and Richard Kim's Camus-inspired The Martyred)