He made his literary debut in 2001 when his novel Dongjeong eopneun sesang (동정 없는 세상 A World Without Virginity) won the Munhakdongne Writer Award.
[1] He also wrote the short story collection Geu yeojaui chimdae (그 여자의 침대 The Woman's Bed) and the novels Anaega gyeolhonhetda (아내가 결혼했다 My Wife Got Married) and Saenuen (새는 Birds Are).
[2] Park Hyun-wook’s stories typically concern romantic relationships between men and women.
Despite the fact that the novel opens and ends with the suggestive line “I want to do it with you,” its focus is not on sex but on growing up.
The novel makes the counter-intuitive observation that growing up entails leaving the world of adults.