Author: SUNJAE
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 30 — The Designer’s Time
“To become gods… wouldn’t they still need people to worship them?” Even as she asked it, Mika thought how servile she sounded. It was the kind of question that begged for one’s life, asked only in order to survive. When the advertisement ended, the image on the LED wall changed. The stretch of beach where…
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Acting for the Cut — Lecture 6
The Micro and the Macro Every actor arrives on set holding every card in the deck. They have read the script; they know how it ends; they know what the whole thing means. The audience knows none of it. Park Sun-jae spent years watching that gap open up on his monitors before he understood what…
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 29 — Hope
The transparent elevator began to descend without a sound. Beyond the glass wall, a vast underground research facility unfolded level by level. A floor where robot arms assembled silver torsos; a floor where quantum computer halls bathed in blue cooling light stretched on endlessly; a bio-lab where artificial organs pulsed inside glass culture tanks; and…
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Acting for the Cut — Lecture 5
Four Seconds of Eye Contact An action director once asked Park Sun-jae how to shoot a love scene. The answer was four seconds long. Years later he went looking for why that number worked — and found it waiting in the neuroscience of the present moment, in the white of the human eye, and, of…
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 28 — The 96%
At an open-air restaurant overlooking the sea, Mika sat across from Rachel and ate pasta. Rachel only slowly tilted her wine glass. Mika was glad she could feel, exactly as it was, the texture of the pasta — slightly springy yet soft. “Ah, it tastes… good.” Mika’s guess that she would have lost all her…
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 27 — The Horizon
News that Dr. Jang Jin-gyu, Korea’s foremost robotics authority, and his android secretary Rachel had died in an unexpected building collapse spread across every LED display on every building in Seoul. To prevent such disasters, the government announced it would conduct thorough safety inspections on all buildings over 50 years old. Nowhere was there any…
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Acting for the Cut — Lecture 4
Don’t Blink A long time ago, there was a young man I cast in a leading role after seeing his face exactly once. This was before we selected actors through auditions — back when I was such an unknown director that it felt awkward even to call people in to read for me. No casting…
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 26 — Three Decoys
Mika, as if disbelieving, examined her own hands, her own legs, her own body — then, startled, hurriedly covered her chest with both hands. “Aah! What is this?! Give me something to put on!” Dr. Jang turned his head away with a disinterested air, as if such things were beneath his concern. From Mika’s perspective,…
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 25 — The New Body
Leo’s Blackcar Y pulled out of Terra Motors Factory No. 2 and merged onto the Skyway, headed for Seongbuk-dong. Six minutes to Dr. Jang’s grand mansion. But the moment the Blackcar Y appeared on the road, police drones immediately began their pursuit. Whirrr— whirrrr— Twelve patrol-type pursuit drones. Their rear LIDAR immediately identified the Blackcar…
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She Became a Star: Xu Xiyuan
On June 17, 2026, Chinese-language media including Hong Kong’s Sing Tao Daily carried news that a distant asteroid finally had a name. The Working Group for Small Body Nomenclature under the International Astronomical Union (IAU) had confirmed the official designation of asteroid No. 208663 as “Xu Xiyuan.” That name belongs to the Taiwanese actress who…