The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun
Hardback published by Serpent’s Tail 2nd July 2020
When catastrophe strikes, who can resist looking at the wreckage?
Yona is nearing burnout working for Jungle, a sinister Seoul based company that specialises in tours to ecological disaster zones. When one of Yona’s bosses sexually harasses her, the company tries to bribe her with a free tour to Mui, an island off the coast of Vietnam known for its giant sinkhole. But she becomes trapped on the island and stumbles upon a discovery that puts her in great danger.
Jungle divided disasters into thirty-three distinct categories, including volcano eruptions, earthquakes, war,drought, typhoons, and tsunamis, with 152 available packages. For the city of Jinhae,Yona planned to create an itinerary that combined viewing the aftermath of the tsunami with volunteer work.
MY REVIEW
The Disaster Tourist is the most unique adorable fiction book that I have ever read, just loved loved it! 💕
Five stars all the way ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
We all love to go on holiday✈️ or get away at the beach for a few days🏖. When take a break and go somewhere nice on holiday we all love to sightsee📷 🗽⛪️ Or go to a theme park🎢 or go swimming 👙and of course we love to shop💶
But imagine going on holiday to some disaster zones?
Yona in Korea works for the Jungle travel company as a programming coordinator for ten years, with disaster package that includes visits to Volcano eruptions, earthquakes, war, drought, typhoons and tsunamis and another 152 packages were available.
Yona was the one Jungle worker who was the brains of the company
Once a booking has been paid for a deposit for one of the disaster zone trips it’s impossible to get a refund.
My favourite line was when Yona answers the customer service line saying Ma’am if you cancel, you’ll incur a service fee or I’m sorry sir, but refunds are not possible.
When Yona is sexually harassed by her boss, and he gives her a month off sending her on a break, but not as an employee but as a customer. Yona is to decide where she wants to go and the Jungle company will cover all the expenses, like a business trip. She chooses a six day stay at Desert Sinkhole in Mui.
The story starts to developer to a high top point that I couldn’t stop reading about everything that happened to Yona in the Desert Sinkhole. 🏜
This is one my favourite best books that I can be open with honesty to recommend to you all, don’t miss this unusual story it’s chockablock full of something special to read on every page, absolutely an unputdownable stor waiting to be loved by you.
My special thanks to Serpent’s Tail for sending me the hardback The Disaster Tourist to read and review, I totally loved every page.
ABOUT AUTHOR Yun Ko-eun
Yun Ko-eun was born in Seoul in 1980. Her short story Piercing won the Daesan Literary Award for College Students the year she graduated from university. She received the 2008 Hankyoreh Literature Award for her novel The Zero G Syndrome, in 2011 her shirt story The Hippocampus, Fly won the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award and in 2015 her shirt story collection Aloha won the Kim Yong-ik Novel Prize.
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