Youngwoo Jeon

Books

Three books, and the reason each one exists

Every title here began as a book I wanted to read and could not find.

Cover of Mindless Mind

Novel · Literary science fiction · 2026

Mindless Mind

마음 없는 마음

A Buddhist literary SF novel built as a frame narrative: one consciousness lives through eight simulated lives, each closing on a Zen hwadu. Drawing on Yogācāra's theory of the eight consciousnesses — the storehouse mind, karmic seeds and their perfuming — it asks what remains of a self when every life it inhabits turns out to be constructed.

Cover of An Unexpected Trip to Korea

Trilingual picture book · Korean · Spanish · English · 2025

An Unexpected Trip to Korea

마리아의 어리둥절 한국 여행

María is a curious yellow butterfly from Medellín, Colombia — the city of eternal spring. One day an unexpected journey carries her across continents to Korea, where she meets Duri, a blue butterfly, and a friendship begins. A story of exploration and friendship that makes language learning more fun.

  • For language learners. The full text in Korean, Spanish and English, with a vocabulary list for beginner to intermediate readers.
  • Vivid illustrations that bring places in Korea and Colombia to life.
  • For the whole family. A bedtime story about the joy of travel and the cultures of two countries, to read and learn together.

Print edition: A4, 88 pages

Cover of Spanish-American Short Stories

Bilingual anthology · Spanish–Korean · 2023

Spanish-American Short Stories

원어와 함께 읽는 스페인·중남미 단편선

Short fiction from Spain and Latin America, with the original Spanish set alongside a Korean translation so the two can be read together. Made for language learners who want real literature rather than textbook dialogue — and for readers curious how a story changes as it crosses into another language. The first book from Macondo Workshop.

Print edition: A5, 250 pages