https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/09/the-disaster-tourist-by-yun-ko-eun-review-life-under-late-capitalism

In this entertaining eco-thriller, the heroine curates holiday packages in disaster zones

Following a spate of recent fiction considering the strange intersection of our work and leisure lives – novels such as Ling Ma’s apocalyptic satire Severance and Sayaka Murata’s oddly affecting Convenience Store Woman – The Disaster Tourist offers up another fresh and sharp story about life under late capitalism.

Yona Kim is a programme manager for Jungle, a Seoul company that specialises in curating holiday packages in disaster zones. On trips to areas ravaged by tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, travellers journey through “the following stages: shock ⇾ sympathy and compassion, and maybe discomfort ⇾ gratefulness for their own lives ⇾ a sense of responsibility and the feeling that they’d learned a lesson, and maybe an inkling of superiority for having survived”.