Focusing on Endo Shusaku’s Scandal and Park, Bum-shin’s Eungyo this paper examined the narrative of old age desire in Korean and Japanese literature. The fact that the title of the Scandal, featuring the 65-year-old author Suguro, was originally The Prayer of the Old Man suggests that the text was intended to actively deal with the problem of old age. Lee Jeok-yo, a 70-year-old poet who is the main character of Eungyo, is also making the voice of old age, fighting fiercely against stereotypes of looking at old age. The sexuality of old age, expressed through the body of a vital girl in both texts, is an opportunity to look back and reflect on one’s own life through another face-to-face meeting with oneself that has been hidden so far. This gives great meaning to the life of old age, which is excluded as a useless existence. Old age is acquiring its meaning as a time when a cracked life filled with false consciousness escapes from chaos and discovers the light of truth, and the divided self is integrated and reborn as a full self. Scandal and Eungyo, which share similarities in themes and motifs, tell us in one voice that the possibility of real life begins where we called death, although the timing of the release is different and there are cultural differences between Korea and Japan. It is regarded only as regression and is newly establishing and giving value to the perception of life in old age, which has been pushed out of society.