Yona Ko works for a travel agency specializing in trips to disaster struck areas. Her job is to travel to places where an earthquake, tsunami, shooting, etc...happen. Then she creates a travel package for people wanting to visit them - either to feel like they are helping rebuild, or to tangentially experience a tragedy from safely after the fact.
When Yona needs a break from work, at a company where people don't take time off, her boss tells her to choose a travel package out of the lesser purchased ones; she can relax and evaluate the trip for contract renewal/cancellation.
The island nation of Mui, off of the coast of Vietnam, is famous only for the giant sink hole that has since filled with water and just looks like a lake.
Yona's vacation is extended when she get separated from the group, her passport is stolen, and she cannot contact her agency to help. She ends up back on Mui in what seems to be a plan to bring more tourists.
The Disaster Tourist is a very unique story that will not end up where reader expect. This is Yun Ko-Eun's first book translated into English.
Ko-Eun, Yun. (2020). The Disaster Tourist. Berkley, CA: Counterpoint.
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