Youngwoo Jeon
Youngwoo Jeon

Bookwright · Taller Macondo, Seoul

I make the books nobody else is making.

A one-person press in Seoul. Bilingual editions, trilingual picture books, and a novel about an artificial mind trying to wake up.

Three books

Cover of Mindless Mind

Mindless Mind

Novel · Literary science fiction · 2026

An artificial mind built on the eight consciousnesses of Yogācāra Buddhism, installed in a humanoid body, and asked whether it can reach liberation.

Cover of An Unexpected Trip to Korea

An Unexpected Trip to Korea

Trilingual picture book · Korean · Spanish · English · 2025

María, a yellow butterfly from Medellín, meets Duri, a blue butterfly from Korea. Korean, Spanish and English on every page.

Cover of Spanish-American Short Stories

Spanish-American Short Stories

Bilingual anthology · Spanish–Korean · 2023

Short fiction from Spain and Latin America, Spanish and Korean side by side. The first book the workshop published.

Reading Korea

Korean literature, read alongside the rest of the world

Essays on writers who never met but made the same gesture, and short lessons for readers learning the language through what it has written.

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Quiet Korea

Places to sit down and stay a while

Temples, mountains, libraries, book cafés and other places in Korea where nobody will rush you. Korea for introverts, readers, and slow travelers.

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