In 2012 she was captured by authorities in China, so an activist named Do Hee-youn paid the bribes to free her so she could move to South Korea.
[4] "City of Specters" depicts the life of Gyeong-hee, who has a management position in Pyongyang and whose son has psychological difficulties when seeing images of Karl Marx.
[6] The story "Life of a Swift Steed" depicts how optimistic ex-wrestler Seol Yong-su is destroyed by his tending to an elm tree.
[7] Barbara Zitwer, who serves as Bandi's literary agent, stated that the volume for pre-emptive book offers was "immediate and stunning" to the point where she had remained at her desk for a long period of time.
[4] Ha stated that overall the work "is a dramatic page-turner" though she criticized the one-dimensional nature of many characters and the overly "formal" writing in the translation.