In "Appointment with My Brother," Yi Mun-yul imagines meeting with his half brother, born to his father and a new wife in North Korea. After the protagonist learns that his father has died after a 40 year separation, he makes an appointment to meet his North Korean half-brother and discovers that, despite their ideological differences, they have strong family ties. Their bond is cemented after drinking soju, a strong Korean drink, after a make-shift ceremony to honor their father. Heinz Insu Fenkl, the translator of the 2017 version of the novel, offered this assessment: "Yi Mun-yol’s "Meeting with My Brother" offers a sobering, disillusioning, and yet poignant and hopeful perspective on the volatile relationship between the divided Koreas."