Modern Korean Short Stories is a series of 10 books presented in a bilingual English-Korean
edition - - - About this book: Prize-winning author Choe In-ho paints a dizzying portrait of
what living in a modern self-centered society entails in his breakthrough short story Tower of
Ants. The plot centers around a young man who is going nowhere in his 9-5 advertising job when
one day his apartment is suddenly infested with ants. The story soon becomes a battle for
sanity as the thousands upon thousands of insects slowly take over the man's life his
apartment and his mind.