{"id":20347,"date":"2025-07-25T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=20347"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:26:08","slug":"jinwoo-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jinwoo-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinwoo Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jinwoo Park is a Korean Canadian author living in Montreal. Park has a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oxford Soju Club<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2025.
forthcoming Sept. 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When North Korean spymaster Doha Kim is mysteriously killed in Oxford, his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Yohan Kim, chases the only breadcrumb given to him in Doha\u2019s last breath: \u201cSoju Club, Dr. Ryu.\u201d In the meantime, a Korean American CIA agent , Yunah Choi, races to salvage her investigation of the North Korean spy cell in the aftermath of the assassination. At the centre of it all is the Soju Club, the only Korean restaurant in Oxford, owned by Jihoon Lim, an immigrant from Seoul in search of a new life after suffering a tragedy. As different factions move in with their own agendas, their fates become entangled, resulting in a bitter struggle that will determine whose truth will triumph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oxford Soju Club<\/em> weaves a tale of how immigrants in the Korean diaspora are forced to create identities to survive, and how in the end, they must shed those masks and seek their true selves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jinwoo Park personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Dundurn Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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