There’s a particular kind of dread that creeps in when you realize the person watching didn’t just stumble into power—they built it themselves. In Molka by Monika Kim, that realization lands early and lingers long after the final page.
Set in a seemingly ordinary Seoul office building, the novel introduces Junyoung, an IT technician who has taken surveillance far beyond anything sanctioned or accidental. The cameras he watches aren’t part of the company’s security system—they’re his. Installed deliberately, carefully, and invasively throughout the building, including in restrooms, they give him total control over the private lives of the women around him. This isn’t passive observation. It’s calculated, obsessive, and deeply violating.
That distinction matters. It transforms Junyoung from someone abusing access into someone who has engineered an entire ecosystem of control.
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