Cutting Wound

Year of Production
2025

Summary

A young woman, hearing of an opening for a live-in reading tutor, makes her way to a secluded mansion for an interview. But what awaits her there is beyond imagination. In the garden, a bloodied giant of a man writhes on the ground while another interrogates him. At the man’s command, a young lady is brought forward—forced to lay her bare hands on the gaping wounds and, as if leafing through a book, read aloud the truths hidden inside his flesh.

The title 'Cutting Wound' refers both to the torn wound and to the act of revelation itself. At its heart is a woman in her early twenties, raised in an orphanage, cursed—or gifted—with the ability to read minds through contact with others’ injuries. Once rescued, yet also irrevocably bound, by the crime boss who controls her, she lives caught between salvation and damnation.

When the reading tutor enters the mansion under false pretenses, carrying her own secret purpose, the story hurtles into unexpected territory—where power, obsession, and the intimate terror of wounds intertwine.

Company Profile

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MUNHAKDONGNE Publishing Corp.

Munhakdongne Publishing Group started with publishing literature, and now we present a wide variety of publishing areas including general non-fiction, art, self-help, pop science, life-style and comics. Munhakdongne Publishing Group currently consists of 8 imprints and subsidiaries, publishing 500 new books every year.
Through Munhakdongne Novel Award and Munhakdongne New Author Award serving as a gateway for young authors, we have been discovering the best writers in Korea including Kim Young-ha, Eun Hee-kyung, Cheon Myeong-kwan, Kim Un-su, Cho Nam-joo, and Chang Kang-myoung. By awarding writers with Young Author Award and Kim Seung-ok Literary Award, we encourage writers on their work, while striving to present great Korean literary works overseas. As a publisher that many producers, creators are paying attention to, it has various IPs from literature to genre literature like horror, mystery etc and introduces attractive and IP every month that captivates children and adults.

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