ABSTRACT
After giving a brief review of the recent productive intersections between postcolonial theory and science fiction studies, this chapter offers two sections of textual survey and analysis that examine questions of nation/empire and issues of racial and ethnic identity, respectively, in the science fiction of the past sixty years in South Korea. As the analysis shows, South Korean science fiction writers have in many cases subverted the imperialist and orientalist assumptions of classic Western science fiction. In the process, they have transformed the genre into a vehicle of cultural decolonization that will reward scholarly attention in the future.
