Park Taewon’s 1934 novella A Day in the Life of Kubo, the Novelist centers around Kubo, a freelance Korean writer, as he navigates his way around Seoul under Japanese Imperial rule. Park’s titular character Kubo drew influence from the French flâneur with his mannerisms and worldview, yet is distinct in his existence within Japanese hegemony. Thus, Kubo is emblematic of the anticolonial artistic and political revolution for Korean writers. My project will analyze a collection of oeuvres of Park and his fellow Circle of Nine Korean modernists, examining their multiple ‘Kubo’ archetypes in a conversation on colonial and global modernism. I characterize them as heirs to the Baudelarian flâneur and Joycean hero—yet uniquely distinct and revolutionary in their archetypal embodiment of the Colonial Artist.