Table for One: Stories

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An office worker takes a class on eating alone. A man with a bedbug phobia offers his body as bait to save his apartment building. A woman on a work trip discovers her hotel room has a previous occupant who never left. Each story in this collection finds a character navigating solitude — sometimes by choice, sometimes by circumstance — in a contemporary Korea that runs on proximity but rarely on genuine connection. Yun Ko-Eun writes loneliness without sentimentality, treating it as a condition with its own logic, humor, and unexpected freedoms. Her characters are not tragic loners but practical people solving odd problems with the tools available. Stories about the art of being alone in a world that won't stop watching.