ABSTRACT
Cyberliterature has been called an “avant-garde mode of performance in an age of computers.” It is a “new multi-media literature conceived by electronic revolution, reflected and produced by the new digital communications technology.” 1 Indeed, these two descriptions provide an accurate definition. Yet, in Korea, it is an avant-garde mode of performance in its infancy. Here, limitations of technology preclude a true hypertext venue where a dynamic flow of textual interaction between writer and reader transforms conventional modes of authorship into plural and borderless texts. Hye-Sil Choi, an outspoken critic, points out that despite the rhetoric, Korean cyberliterature is still primarily dependent on network functions rather than on hypertext. 2 What we have is a body of literature composed on a computer and uploaded onto various literary sites on the Internet; in other words, conventionally written works published in cyberspace. It is in this technical respect that Korean cyberliterature falls short of the true aims and spirit of hypertext.
