According to Postech Times, science fiction novels have slowly stepped onto the literary scene and gained critical recognition, including stories about zombies, aliens, and robots. Feminist sci-fi novels have also gained a large audience, like Kim Cho Yeop’s, If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light. The book was awarded 2nd place in the Korean Science Literature Awards. She also won first place for her other book “Book Missing Inside Library” in 2017 in the category Short Stories and Novellas. Her background as a science major, experimenting with chemicals, and scientific magazines, are big influences on her work.

If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light has been a sensation because of its creative sci-fi story about another world that exists besides earth. She has also written stories about aliens and other science fiction characters in her other novels. Kim Cho-Yeop creates an imaginative world and allows her readers to creatively go beyond the limits of their imagination. She also talks about empathy and solitude, since the characters end up in another world by themselves.