Differences in Thought Within Police Groups Are 'Excuses'... The Beginning of Power and Downfall

Former Senior Police Official Jeon Yong-chan's Autobiographical Novel 'Excuse'
Sharp Analysis of Society's Falsehood and Hypocrisy, Efforts of Conflict and Overcoming

This is a full-length autobiographical novel by Jeon Yong-chan, who spent a long time in the police force. It realistically depicts the falsehood and hypocrisy occurring within the police organization, a space no different from any other workplace.

The differences in thoughts arising while performing organizational duties lead to ruin for the individuals involved, and it narrates through the perspective and psychological conflict of police officer K that every word spoken for a calling can become an excuse.

The narrator of this novel, police officer K, diagnosed, "Some personality traits and linguistic attitudes, which even I was unaware of, provided the initial cause of that downfall. This was a phenomenon quite different from criminal law violations such as corruption or abuse of authority."

A promising police officer falls regardless of corruption or abuse of authority, depending on the dynamics within the organization. It offers a sharp analysis of falsehood and hypocrisy in our society, conflicts and power relations within the organization, the distorted personal lives caused by these, and the efforts to overcome them, all portrayed plainly in a philosophical reflective style.

It is a story about the painful human effort to break free from a life defined by others, and the selfishness and ugly human nature revealed in that process.

Excuse | Written by Jeon Yong-chan | Hakisa | 488 pages | 16,200 KRW