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Artificial Intelligence Translates the Language of Animals
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
The Story of AI Learning to Listen to Whales, Dolphins, Birds, and Bees
Twelve chapters on how AI listens to dolphins, sperm whales, humpback whales, birds, and bees to find rules in their sounds, and what this technology means for its risks and for animal rights. Written in simple sentences a child can read, with verified sources in every section.
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AI Deciphers Ancient Scripts
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Ancient Records Revived by AI
In twelve chapters, this book explains how AI revives records once unreadable, from burned scrolls and wooden slips buried in mud to broken clay tablets. It covers virtual unrolling at Herculaneum, virtual collation of oracle-bone texts, reading Silla wooden tablets, computational analysis of undeciphered scripts, and multispectral archives, with verified references for each chapter.
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Artificial Intelligence for New Materials Design and Rocket Propulsion Engineering
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
AI Potentials, Self-Driving Laboratories, and Physics-Informed Machine Learning (PIML)
Ten chapters on how artificial intelligence is changing new materials and rocket propulsion: atomic simulation, generative models, self-driving labs, high-temperature alloys, metal 3D printing, combustion, cooling design, and engine diagnosis and control. Written without equations, with verified sources in every chapter.
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The Age of Autonomous Scientific Discovery
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
AI Scientists and Self-Driving Labs
This book follows how AI scientists and self-driving labs are changing the way science generates and verifies claims. It covers literature-based discovery, natural-language protocols translated into robot commands, multi-agent research systems, closed-loop laboratories, materials search, the verification gap, chains of evidence, research harnesses, journal ethics, and legal responsibility.
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A New Era of Life Sciences Opened by Artificial Intelligence
Structural Proteomics, Genomic Foundation Models, Autonomous Laboratories, and Global Governance
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
This book is a research volume compiled with artificial intelligence. A human selected the materials and structured the work, while AI models drafted the sentences and cross-checked the facts.
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The Double Structure of Digital Sovereignty
Europe’s Departure from Palantir and the Chains of American Big Tech
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
This is a record of 2026, when European intelligence agencies and defense ministries began removing analytics tools from America’s Palantir. It covers the replacement decisions made by France’s General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), and the Netherlands Ministry of Defense; the incident in which US export controls severed an ally’s ac…
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Artificial Intelligence in Horticulture
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Across five chapters and ten sections, this book examines computer vision for crop diagnosis, harvesting robots and autonomous field systems, smart greenhouses and digital twins, precision irrigation and supply-chain quality control, high-throughput phenotyping, and predictive breeding.
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Artificial Intelligence in Food Crop Agriculture
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Across six chapters and eighteen sections, the book examines digital agricultural infrastructure, remote sensing, crop diagnosis, yield forecasting, precision irrigation, genomics, molecular breeding, agricultural robotics, climate-smart agriculture, and global food security.
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The Future of Forestry and Agroforestry
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Driven by Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation
Across five chapters and fifteen sections, the book follows satellites, drones, LiDAR, digital twins, forest-specific language models, wildfire and pest forecasting, forestry robotics, agroforestry, timber traceability, and forest carbon markets.
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Smart Livestock Farming: AI Enters the Barn
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
Sensors listen, cameras watch, and artificial intelligence helps farmers decide.
Across five chapters and fifteen sections, the book follows precision livestock farming from animal health and reproduction to robotic milking, virtual fencing, digital twins, methane reduction, welfare, and data ownership.
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Han Dong-hoon, Busan Buk-gu Gap: A Record of the 100 Days Before and After the Election (Mar. 26-Jul. 3, 2026)
Kim Kyung-jin
Table of Contents and 13 sections
From March 26 to July 3, 2026, this record follows the spring after expulsion, the Busan Buk-gu Gap by-election, victory as an independent, and the first bill submitted in the National Assembly.
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Artificial Intelligence and Medicine
Kim Kyung-jin, Attorney at Law
AI in clinical care, hospitals, education, and research
AI in medical imaging, risk prediction, treatment planning, hospital operations, education, and research, with patient safety, privacy, and accountability.
[AI Library] Chapter 1. People Remember Attitude, Not Titles
Politics and People
Chapter 1. People Remember Attitude, Not Titles
Kim Kyung-jin
Part 1: Reading People
Chapter 1: People Remember Attitude, Not Titles
November 2005, Berlin. Inside the plenary chamber of the Bundestag, the swearing-in ceremony for the Chancellor was taking place. The woman on the podium was not particularly tall, and her voice was not loud.
There were no grand gestures. Angela Merkel. A physicist who grew up as a pastor's daughter in Brandenburg, East Germany.
The first female Chancellor in German history. European media commentary that day was largely lukewarm. Many said Merkel seemed too quiet compared to the reformist drive of her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder.
One reporter wrote: "Does she have charisma? No. Then what does she have?
We don't know yet."
Sixteen years later, on the day Merkel voluntarily stepped down as Chancellor, 75% of the German people supported her. At the time of her departure, her nickname was 'Mutti,' German for 'Mom.
' The fact that this person, who won four consecutive general elections over 16 years, was called 'Mom' rather than 'The Iron Leader' overturns conventional wisdom about political leadership.
Merkel was not a great orator. To be precise, she was not the type of politician to captivate people with speeches. Her sentences were long and complex, and sometimes the audience would doze off before she reached a conclusion.
In Germany, the verb 'Merkeln' was once in vogue. It meant 'to stall indecisively without making any decisions. ' It was a form of mockery.
But as the word endured over the years, its meaning changed. 'Merkeln' later began to be read as 'to wait cautiously for the right time. '
The key lies in this change. People do not remember a politician's speeches. They do not even remember their policies.
What people remember is attitude. The way that person treated them, the expression shown in the face of a crisis, the posture taken before power. These accumulate to form an impression.
In Merkel's case, that impression converged into two words: 'humility and dignity. ' According to the biography by Kati Marton, these were the two words Merkel chose for her own epitaph.
In psychology, there is a framework called the 'Warmth-Competence Model. ' According to this model, formulated by Professor Susan Fiske's team at Princeton University, people evaluate strangers along two axes. The first axis is 'Is this person warm or cold toward me?
' The second axis is 'Is this person competent or incompetent? ' There is a crucial sequence here. Warmth comes first.
Competence comes second. Before evaluating someone's ability, people first determine whether the other person is a foe or an ally. This judgment is made within three seconds.
The three-second first impression. This number comes from research by Alexander Todorov. This Princeton psychologist had experiment participants evaluate the trustworthiness of unfamiliar faces after seeing them for only 0.
1 seconds. The results were shocking. The impressions formed in 0.
1 seconds almost perfectly matched the impressions formed after sufficient observation without time limits. This means the human brain is designed to judge a person's trustworthiness instantaneously.
However, in the world of politicians, there is something much harder than a first impression. It is the skill of maintaining a relationship for 30 years. Gaining favor in three seconds is possible through natural looks and a smile.
But keeping people from leaving for 30 years is only possible through consistency of attitude. Merkel lived in the same apartment for 16 years. She did not use the official residence provided by the federal government.
After work, she went grocery shopping at the local supermarket, pushing her own cart. Whether this behavior was calculated or natural does not matter. What matters is the fact that it never changed once in 16 years.
Here, we must address a trap that politicians from elite backgrounds are prone to fall into. The moment competence overshadows warmth, people begin to be wary. In Professor Fiske's model, groups in the 'competent but cold' quadrant become objects of both respect and envy or hostility.
Professional groups, elites, and high-ranking officials fall into this category. They are people whose abilities are recognized, but who are not liked.
People entering politics from the prosecution are most susceptible to this trap. I can say this with confidence because I served as a prosecutor for 13 years. A prosecutor's eye is an eye that reads depositions.
It is an eye trained for thousands of hours to find contradictions in testimony, cross-reference evidence, and point out logical loopholes. This eye is a weapon in investigations. But if you use this eye as it is in the political arena, people feel like they are being interrogated.
The moment the sensation that 'that person is analyzing me' is transmitted, the temperature of the relationship drops sharply.
As a prosecutor, I focused on finding falsehoods in suspect statements. My job was to read hidden facts between the lines of depositions. However, upon entering the National Assembly, I found that if I looked at people the same way, no one would come near me.
The eye that reads people in politics is fundamentally different from the eye that reads depositions. The eye for depositions looks at 'what is this person hiding? ' The eye for politics looks at 'what does this person want?
' The former starts from suspicion. The latter starts from interest. I spent more than half of my term as a member of the National Assembly realizing this difference.
The reason Merkel lasted so long ultimately lies here. She did not exude the 'scent of power. ' Whether she was leading negotiations through the night at an EU summit or when Europe was shaken by the Greek debt crisis, her attitude was not much different from that of someone pushing a cart in a neighborhood supermarket.
Like a scientist, she focused on breaking down problems, excluding emotions, and finding solutions. There is a saying attributed to Merkel during negotiations with Putin: "I am a scientist. I like to break problems down into their smallest parts.
There is no room for ego to interfere in that process."
The statement that there is no room for ego to interfere. For a politician to be able to say this, an attitude of putting results before pride must be ingrained. Flashy orators are forgotten once they leave the stage.
But the person who answers the phone on a night of crisis, saves the other party's face, and fulfills their promises is remembered for a long time.
In 2015, when more than a million refugees flooded into Europe due to the Syrian Civil War, Merkel opened the borders. It was a decision she made knowing her approval ratings would drop. While France accepted 30,000 people, Germany took in 1.
17 million. Far-right parties surged across Europe, and there was fierce backlash within Germany. Approval ratings fell.
But that decision created something. Germany's moral authority in the international community rose, and trust in Merkel deepened. The New York Times described her as the last trustworthy political leader in the Western world.
Titles disappear when a term ends. Chancellor, Chairman, Representative. These titles have a set time.
But attitude has no term limit. The total amount of attitude a person has shown ultimately becomes their political asset. Merkel was so respected that even after her retirement, the expression 'Merkel-possessing nation' circulated in Germany.
At the same time, criticism regarding her dependence on Russian energy and her decision to phase out nuclear power is intense. When the European Parliament tried to award her a medal of merit in 2026, boos broke out. She was not a perfect leader.
But when you consider how rare it is for a politician to exit after 16 years without a single corruption scandal, you can gauge the size of the asset created by her attitude.
If you are from the prosecution, the legal field, or someone who has lived with razor-sharp analytical skills as a weapon in a professional area, there is a question you must ask yourself the moment you step into politics: "Do I want to be remembered by people as a competent person, or as a warm person?" The ideal answer is, of course, both.
But if you must show one first, it is warmth. Competence is proven when you are given a task. Warmth must be shown before you are given the task.
The only person who remembers your title is the one who received your business card. The people who remember your attitude are everyone who has ever been with you.
Kim Kyung-jin
Attorney · Former Member of the National Assembly · AI Policy Researcher
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