Kim Taeyong (; born 1974) is a South Korean writer.
Kim Taeyong was born in Seoul in 1974. He graduated in creative writing from Soongsil University. He began his literary career when his short story âÂÂOreunjjogeseo sebeonjjae jipâ (ì¤른쪽ìÂÂì ì¸ ë²Â째 짠The Third House from the Right) was published in the 2005 spring issue of the quarterly literary magazine Segyeuimunhak. He has won the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, Moonji Literary Award, KimHyun Literary Award.
Many of Kim Taeyong's stories are about writing itself. In the title story of his second collection âÂÂPoju iyagiâ (ì주 ì´ì¼기 A Pimp's Story), the pimp, who is the narrator, starts writing a will with the sentence âÂÂI was a pimpâÂÂ, and struggles to write the next sentence. The incapable pimp is the alter ego of the writer. The narrator who used to be a pimp, goes under inner conflict after learning how to write from a university student who had come out as a volunteer for the elderly with not relatives. The narrator had never even had the desire to think about the meaning of his life as a pimp before learning to write. He confesses that âÂÂas I write, I feel that my sin is getting bigger, and heavier. The history of more and more wicked sins concealed among the words is torturing me. Strangely, I cannot stop. I feel that I am getting further from my memories as I am calling upon them to write.â Such distrust he has for writing can also stand for the distrust that the author has for writing.