You-Jeong Jeong, known as South Korea's Stephen King, is an award-winning and bestselling author of psychological thrillers and crime fiction. Her novels Seven Years of Darkness, 28, and The Good Son were selected as "Book of the Year" by major media outlets and bookstores, gaining widespread acclaim. These works have been translated and published in twenty-three countries, including the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Finland, China, Japan, and Brazil.

Sean Lin Halbert holds an MA in Korean literature from Seoul National University. He is the recipient of the LTI Korea Aspiring Translator Award, the Korea Times Korean Literature Translation Award, and the GKL Translation Award. He lives in Seoul with his wife and daughter and teaches at LTI Korea Translation Academy. Perfect Happiness is his sixth novel in translation.

"You-Jeong Jeong fillets the reader's imagination with such expert precision, you'd think she wrote Perfect Happiness with a sashimi knife. This book dismembers, boils and grinds you down with its cunning brutality, as unflinching as field-dressing a fresh kill before the carcass even has a chance to cool and you finish reading." --Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

"Armed with suspense, this book by You-Jeong Jeong poses the question, 'Does true happiness exist in life?' Once you open the first page, you cannot put it down until the very last sentence. Highly recommended for readers who enjoy tension and fear." --Kyung-sook Shin, author ofPlease Look After Mom

"A chilling horror, a dark abyss of humanity, fast-paced and addictive...impossible to put down."--J. M. Lee, author of The Investigation and Artificial Truth

"You-Jeong Jeong fillets the reader's imagination with such expert precision, you'd think she wrote Perfect Happiness with a sashimi knife. This book dismembers, boils and grinds you down with its cunning brutality, as unflinching as field-dressing a fresh kill before the carcass even has a chance to cool and you finish reading." -Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

"Armed with suspense, this book by You-Jeong Jeong poses the question, 'Does true happiness exist in life?' Once you open the first page, you cannot put it down until the very last sentence. Highly recommended for readers who enjoy tension and fear." -Kyung-sook Shin, author ofPlease Look After Mom

"A chilling horror, a dark abyss of humanity, fast-paced and addictive...impossible to put down."-J. M. Lee, author of The Investigation and Artificial Truth

Publisher: Creature Publishing

Pub date: 2025-09-30

Length: 358 pages