The Disaster Tourist is an anti-hero contemporary story about 33-year-old Yona Ko, from Seoul, a programming coordinator who works for the disaster tourism company, Jungle. Yona's job involves surveying places that have been ravished by natural disasters and then repackaging them as tourism hotspots.

Until one day, when she is asked to go on one of the company's holiday packages in Mui, Vietnam, a town renowned for the sinkholes that devastated the area in 1963. Whilst on her trip, Yona discovers truths about Mui and the people who live there that are kept hidden from tourists. She also stumbles upon a scandal that will challenge her in ways she could've never imagined.

The Disaster Tourist was a strikingly realist story. It was indicative of real life corruption that seeks to harm those most vulnerable in favour of making profit. Yona was a passive anti-hero who invoked both my empathy and my distaste. Her passivity reflects not only the quotidian tone of the story, but a general feeling of being desensitised to constant news of disaster and trauma.