The Literary World of Kim Kyung-jin — Shedding the Prosecutor’s Robe, Donning the Algorithm
A Prosecutor’s Eye, a Legislator’s Hand, an Engineer’s Tongue
To understand Kim Kyung-jin, you need only scan the spines of his books. Between 1995 and 2008, he moved through the prosecutorial offices of Incheon, Gunsan, Gwangju, Jeonju, Seoul, Daejeon, and Cheonan — a long apprenticeship in the interior mechanics of state power. In 2016 he pinned on a National Assembly badge and took his seat on the Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting, and Communications Committee. When his term ended, he did not return to the familiar desk of a law office. He walked toward a larger, less settled question: artificial intelligence.
Between 2024 and 2026, roughly twenty books came out under his name. That pace cannot be explained by the word “prolific.” It is closer to watching a single worldview branch outward in several directions at once.
Part I — The State and the Algorithm: The AI Policy Works
The central axis of Kim’s writing rests on a proposition: artificial intelligence is a problem of national design. Seven books stand on that axis.
1. AI Administrative Revolution: A Global Government AI Innovation Guidebook (2025)
A dissection of how sixteen governments have adopted AI. The book is, at bottom, an order: replace the paper bureaucracy trapped inside its own inertia with data-driven algorithmic governance. It sets China’s algorithm registration system beside the EU AI Act and America’s federal AI initiatives, then measures how far South Korea has yet to travel.
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2. AI Hegemony War: Kim Kyung-jin’s National AI Design Guidebook (2024)
The contest between Washington and Beijing is examined not as a trade dispute but as a struggle over the architecture of the future. The book calls for an AI basic law, sovereign AI capacity, robot taxes, universal basic income, AI dividends — the institutional scaffolding of a world that does not yet exist. Its distinctive axis is the way it threads South Korea’s ultra-low birthrate and labor shortage into the AI question.
3. Ten Questions AI Poses to Humanity (2025)
A brake on technological optimism. Deepfakes, vanishing jobs, the shadow of a surveillance society — the book stares at each without flinching, then asks what philosophy humans need when machines begin to replace them. It chose to leave questions standing rather than supply answers.
4. Artificial Intelligence Elections (2026)
A tracking operation. The book follows AI as it penetrates the core ritual of democracy: the election. Reading voters’ minds, shaping public opinion, engineering a candidate’s image — all of it is already underway. The book offers a critical lens for defending the reliability and fairness of information.
5. AI Fighter Jets, AI Air Force (2026)
Pilotless fighters, drone squadrons that decide for themselves, air tactics commanded by algorithms. The grammar of war is changing. The book traces the history of AI combat aircraft development and maps the new terrain of national security strategy.
6. PALANTIR: War Surveillance Artificial Intelligence (2026)
A direct look at how a single company, Palantir, has rewritten the conduct of modern warfare. Vast data streams analyzed in real time, a battlefield viewed from above by machine intelligence — and the ethical questions that rise like smoke when technology fuses with power.
7. AI National Defense Revolution (2026)
A comprehensive treatment of AI adoption across the entire defense domain.
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The gaze running through all seven volumes is consistent. Artificial intelligence is not a corporate product. It is a strategic asset of the state, and administration, elections, security, the judiciary — every gear in the machinery of governance — will be remade by it. The roots of this perception lie in a career spent prosecuting corporate crime and intellectual property cases, then drafting legislation on digital governance and autonomous vehicles.
Part II — Faces of the Age: Biographical Portraits
Kim is drawn to the people who built the technology. Three biographical works exist.
1. A Biography of Sam Altman (2025, co-authored with Kim Kyung-ran)
The life and philosophy of the man who unleashed ChatGPT on the world. The book dismantles the hundred-billion-dollar Stargate Project and looks ahead to a future where intelligence and energy converge. It is the story of one person, but it also serves as a window into the interior life of a technological revolution.
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2. The Jensen Huang Story (2026)
Jensen Huang’s journey to the summit of the semiconductor industry was a sequence of failures, obsessions, and precise bets. The book tracks how an immigrant youth became the architect of AI’s core infrastructure, searching along the way for the essence of leadership and innovation.
3. The Han Dong-hoon Story (2026)
Through one man’s passage from prosecutor to minister to politician, the book sketches a cross-section of contemporary South Korean political history. It traces, with a measured eye, the life and principles of a figure who has strived to uphold public values.
The interest animating these biographies is clear enough: people who stand at the intersection of technology and power, and the way their choices ripple outward into millions of lives.
Part III — From the Kitchen to the Courtroom: AI in Daily Life and the Law
A step back from grand narratives, toward the points where technology enters individual existence and the domain of law.
1. AI Life: Every Moment Changes — Kim Kyung-jin’s AI Life Recipe Book (2024)
A practical guide to putting artificial intelligence to work in everyday life. The experience of translating foreign menus and finding directions on a backpacking trip is folded into the pages. Instead of dense technical jargon, the book proposes concrete questions: writing a letter to a grandchild, asking an AI for a recipe based on what is left in the refrigerator. That it assumes elderly readers and small-business owners as its audience tells you something about the author’s posture.
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2. Artificial Intelligence: AI Takes the Stand (2026)
When the day arrives that AI delivers verdicts or submits evidence, how must the law change? A legal professional who is also a technology specialist identifies the collision points between AI and the judicial system. Thirteen years in the prosecution lend weight to the arguments.
3. Those Who Read the Brain (2026)
An exploration of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, present and future. The book peers into the impact Neuralink may bring, then forces the reader back to an ancient question: what does it mean to be human?
4. Nano Banana Pro: A Beginner’s Guide (2026)
A practical manual for Google Gemini-based image generation. It conveys the simple pleasure of making images with your own hands — or, more precisely, your own prompts.
5. AI Classroom: Grades Will Change (2026)
How AI can reshape learning and achievement inside the school.
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Part IV — Stories of Sea, Mountain, and Land: Geopolitics, Travel, and the Humanities
In Kim’s body of work, there is a territory as surprising as the technology volumes: writings that merge geopolitical instinct with a traveler’s eye.
1. Seven Misconceptions About the Northern Sea Route (2025)
The book corrects the world’s assumptions about a frozen ocean and analyzes the economic shifts a new maritime passage will bring. It examines, without sentimentality, the new geopolitical stage that climate change has built.
2. Malaysia: He Who Commands the Strait of Malacca Commands the World (2025)
One narrow channel of water through which a vast share of the world’s cargo passes — and the way that channel has bent the course of history. The book proves its case through historical events, offering a new framework for understanding the world through its oceans.
[Aladin]
3. A Thousand Prayers, One Mountain — Reading Armenia (2025)
A record of shouldering a backpack and stepping onto unfamiliar ground. Armenia’s Christian heritage and the anguish of its genocide, read through the eyes of an intellectual traveler.
4. Georgia: A Journey Through History and Culture (2026)
The landscape, people, and history of Georgia, perched on the border between Europe and Asia, rendered in prose that is restrained yet warm.
Part V — In the Shadows of Law and Society
School Violence Legal Guide: For Victims
In place of a lawyer’s cold logic, the book reaches toward the pain of wounded parents. It sets the excuses that parents of aggressors blurt out at the moment of accusation alongside the suffering of victims, then offers realistic strategies. It translates the language of the courtroom into the language of people.
Civilization 1, Civilization 2
A two-volume work tracing the currents of human civilization.
Complete Works
[AI and State Power/Policy]
AI Administrative Revolution (2025)
AI Hegemony War (2024)
Ten Questions AI Poses to Humanity (2025)
Artificial Intelligence Elections (2026)
AI Fighter Jets, AI Air Force (2026)
PALANTIR: War Surveillance AI (2026)
AI National Defense Revolution (2026)
[AI Biographical Portraits]
A Biography of Sam Altman (2025, co-authored)
The Jensen Huang Story (2026)
The Han Dong-hoon Story (2026)
[AI in Daily Life, Law, and Education]
AI Life Recipe Book (2024)
AI Takes the Stand (2026)
Those Who Read the Brain (2026)
Nano Banana Pro: A Beginner’s Guide (2026)
AI Classroom: Grades Will Change (2026)
[Geopolitics, Travel, and Humanities]
Seven Misconceptions About the Northern Sea Route (2025)
Malaysia: He Who Commands the Strait of Malacca Commands the World (2025)
A Thousand Prayers, One Mountain — Reading Armenia (2025)
Georgia: A Journey Through History and Culture (2026)
[Law, Society, and Other Works]
School Violence Legal Guide: For Victims
Civilization 1 and 2
Twenty-one titles in all, including co-authored works.
A Single Line of Sight
One question runs through these twenty-one books: Whose technology is this?
A man who once investigated corporate crime at the prosecution stepped into the National Assembly to refine data protection laws, then carried that experience forward to draft blueprints for a national system being remade by artificial intelligence. The trajectory is a straight line.
The tension held inside Kim Kyung-jin’s literary world arises from a double gaze — one that embraces AI’s promise while staring down its dangers. The same hands that analyzed the government systems of sixteen nations strapped on a backpack and climbed to an Armenian monastery. The same eyes that dissected Palantir’s surveillance apparatus looked into the anguish of a parent whose child had been bullied at school.
A man who shed the prosecutor’s robe and learned the language of algorithms. Yet who has not forgotten that beyond the algorithm, there are still people. These books are the record of the distance he has walked between the two.