Jin-in-Seoul
A Literary Site for Novels, Short Stories & Experimental Literature
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A Dictionary of Galactic Extinction
A Dictionary of Galactic Extinction began with a simple question: what would happen if light could be trapped inside a perfectly mirrored room and never escape?
From that question grew a fragmented history of light, energy, civilization, and extinction — told through physics, records, people, words, and documents rather than a single protagonist or plot.
Translation Principles
A note on how the multilingual editions of A Dictionary of Galactic Extinction are translated and reviewed.
Thought Experiment Notes
A record of 26 questions and answers tracing how the scientific ideas behind A Dictionary of Galactic Extinction developed and changed.
Gray Note
Short essays on small objects, passing moments, and ordinary things that are easy to overlook.
Notes on what remains after almost nothing seems to have happened.
Matter and Antimatter, and Two Universes
A Hypothesis on the Symmetry of the Universe and Time Reversal in Tenet
The Liar Paradox in the Age of AI
Three Practical Guides to Professional Conduct
Inspired by Jonathan Swift’s Directions to Servants
Is the Universe Really Full of Stars?
After Watching the 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections
Scarecrow Distance
A story about two boys making their way from Sokcho to Mokpo.
A rough, desolate novel written in the language of abandoned stray dogs. (Work in Progress)
Sweater
Sweater follows a fourteen-year-old boy through one year of school, family, friendship, first love, books, embarrassment, curiosity, and the small discoveries that quietly change the shape of a life.
Told in the form of a diary, the novel moves quickly from one ordinary event to another, but its real subject is the way a young person begins to understand other people, himself, and the world around him.
The voice is curious, restless, comic, and reflective — sometimes running ahead like a young sprinter, sometimes slowing down long enough to notice what adults have stopped seeing.
Children’s Books
Haiku
Short poems in Japanese, English, French, and Korean.
Music
The music here grew out of scenes, emotions, and lines that came to mind while I was writing fiction.
The lyrics, musical direction, mood, and overall structure were created and directed by Jin-in-Seoul, while the music itself was generated using Suno AI.
Some of these pieces began as things that never found their way into the novels, or as ideas that seemed to belong more naturally in music than in sentences.
Writer
Jin-in-Seoul studied Philosophy and Journalism at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. He received an award in the Essay category at the 2015 Esquire Montblanc Literary Award. His novel Sweater was published by Byeolsoop in 2018.