Jinwoo Park shares about what it’s like growing up withintwo cultures (Korean & Canadian), how TikTok got him published, and what inspired his latest book.

Jinwoo Park is a Korean Canadian writer based in Montreal.Born and raised in Seoul, he has lived in various parts of North America and the UK since the age of 11.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree from McGill in 2013,followed by a master’s in political economics from the London School of Economics in 2014, and a master’s in creative writing at the University of Oxford in 2015.

In 2021, he won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers’ Award for his first manuscript, Oxford Soju Club, which will be published by Dundurn Press in September 2025. He has also been actively working as a literary translator after winning the Emerging Translator Award from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea in late 2023. He is an editor for Ricepaper magazine.

He is also an avid book reviewer and is active on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

At time 25:05 he reads from Oxford Soju Club.

His website is: https://www.jinwoo-park.com/

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