Someone Somewhere Watching Me
Seven Years of Darkness
By You-Jeong Jeong (Translated by Chi-Young Kim)
11 Mar, 2026
Translation
You-Jeong Jeong’s 2011 Seven Years of Darkness is a stand-alone mystery. Chi-Young Kim’s English translation came out in 2020.
Seven years ago, Sowon’s father Hyonsu was arrested for mass murder. The authorities claim that Hyonsu murdered eleven-year-old Oh Seryong, Seryong’s father Dr. Oh Yongje, Hyonsu’s wife Eunju, and four policemen unlucky enough to be downstream when Hyonsu opened the floodgates of Seryong Dam and washed away a village.
Seven years later, Hyonsu waits for execution. Sowon is still trying to rebuild his life.