Author: SUNJAE
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That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.
After reading this news, the shock did not leave me for days. It was a report that a woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had been killed after being shot three times by an ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officer. The woman who was killed was a U.S. citizen, 37 years old, and a mother of…
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 10 — Public Enemy
WHIIII—BOOOOM— The explosion struck the rear bumper of the Black Car Y. The vehicle flipped violently and plunged fifteen meters from the overpass. SpotDog leapt through the air and landed five meters in front of the wreckage. “Ugh—!” The airbags had deployed just in time. The windshield was shattered. “Leo. Can you move?” “Yes.” Amazingly,…
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Caracas at Midnight, and the President Who Disappeared
At around 2 a.m. local time on January 3, 2026,a series of explosions echoed across the skies above Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Loud detonations rippled through the city. Awakened residents reported seeing aircraft flying low overhead and military vehicles moving through the streets. In some neighborhoods, witnesses said they heard gunfire. Within minutes, Caracas…
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 9 — Before the Missile
“Are you suggesting that I pay you to keep this incident out of the press?” At the hologram chairman’s completely unexpected response, Mika’s expression hardened. “What you just said is an insult to journalists. I expect an apology. I am only interested in pursuing the truth.” The hologram chairman rose and walked toward Mika, then…
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Because of these words, I will be buried by Joseon society
Yet I choose to speak and die, rather than rot away in silence. In 1934, during the Japanese colonial period,a short essay was published in the magazine Samcheolli.Its title was A Confession of Divorce.The author was Na Hye-seok. She was known as Korea’s first female Western-style painter and a “New Woman.”After her divorce, she wrote…
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 8 — The Chairman Who Isn’t There
Mika visits Tera Group’s headquarters to meet the chairman, only to find a holographic version claiming to be in New York. While the chairman delivers corporate talking points about the booming robot market, Mika presses him on the murder of the union leader. When she projects the restored CCTV footage—showing police robot Pluto transporting the…
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Please Do Not Delete Coupang.
The Coupang data breach revealed more than a failure of security. It exposed the reality of a system-driven corporation that millions depend on for work, consumption, and survival. This essay examines Coupang not as a moral villain, but as a piece of modern infrastructure—raising a difficult question: to leave, or not to leave.
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 7 — The Anger Frequency
After Mika realizes that Pluto has been watching her, Leo shows her the 2026 paper published by Dr. Jang Jin-gyu: “Malfunction Patterns in Robots Subjected to Prolonged Abuse.” The study reveals that robots subjected to long-term abuse display patterns similar to the human “anger frequency,” raising the possibility that robots may develop free will. Confronted…
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A Life Built Over Thirty Years, Erased in Forty-Eight Hours
On December 5, 2025, Dispatch reported that actor Cho Jin-woong (born Cho Won-jun) had been involved in a violent juvenile incident thirty years ago. The controversy quickly escalated into a nationwide debate over the purpose of juvenile justice, the possibility of rehabilitation, and the standards by which a public figure’s past should be disclosed. Within…
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Epi 01: PLUTO. Part 6 — The Right to Exist
Mika visits Dr. Jang to question him about the Terra Plant incident and shows him high-resolution CCTV footage of an unknown robot. But Dr. Jang gives only cryptic answers, and the calm precision with which he and his secretary Rachel handle vast amounts of data deepens Mika’s suspicion rather than resolving it.