Kim Bo-ra, who received worldwide acclaim with her debut feature “House of Hummingbird“, has confirmed that her follow-up project is going to be “Spectrum” (translated title), which will be an adaption of renowned novelist Kim Cho-yeop‘s sci-fi short story.
“When ‘House of Hummingbird’ was released last year, a fan gave me a book, ‘If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light,’ and I read it when I was in San Francisco for 3 months. It is really sad and beautiful. I remember reading everything and feeling thrilled with excitement”, Kim said in a Facebook post.
“Spectrum” is a short story included in “If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light”. It is a sci-fi tale about humans and aliens coexisting in a distant future. A female biologist who went missing for more than 40 years after leaving space exploration encounters an extraterrestrial intelligence life on a planet outside the solar system, who looks after humans.
Kim Cho-yeop is a writer who is counted as one of the new futures of Korean literature after winning the Korean Science Literature Award for the short term, honorable work the Today’s Writer Award for the novel “Lost in the Hall” and the novel “If We Can’t Go at the Speed of Light”. Kim Bo-ra, meanwhile, has already won 59 awards at home and abroad with “House of Hummingbird”.
