SIBF 2026 24(Wed) - 28(Sun) June, 2026 l COEX Halls A&B1
Book Talk/Seminar
◼ Theme Lecture
Writer and Translator
In an era where AI is reshaping the landscape of creativity, we meet those who live as both writers and translators. Writing fiction in one’s own voice and translating another’s words may seem to stretch in entirely different directions. Yet both ultimately connect through language as ways of encountering each other’s worlds. We explore the interactions between writing, reading, and translating. How can we reflect on the boundaries between fiction and translation, and between humans and AI?
ㅣSpeaker: Baik Sou Linne (Novelist, Translator), Lee Juhye (Writer, Translator), Chung Bora (Protestor)
ㅣModerator: Heo Hee (Literary Critic)
- Date/Time: June 24 (Wed) 14:00 - 15:30
- Venue: Book Salon
Sunwoojunga-core
Sunwoojunga, who resembles the courage of “𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑜 𝑑𝑢𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖”, has continuously embraced new artistic challenges while building a musical world of her own over a 20-year career. What began as the journey of a singer-songwriter creating music alone has expanded into that of an artist with a wide-ranging spectrum. Even as she expands her realm as a producer, actor, and picture book author, the “sunwoojunga-ness” remains alive. We look into the core of her work — the vivid and unmistakable identity that defines her music.
ㅣSpeaker: sunwoojunga (Musician)
ㅣModerator: Bae Soon-Tak (Music Critic, Writer)
- Date/Time: June 25 (Thu) 16:30 - 18:00
- Venue: Book Salon
Mission Impossible: Translation
Translators faced AI early on, speaking both of its risks and its possibilities. How is the work of translators changing as they move through the age of AI? If translation itself contains a kind of impossibility, then what allows us to come closer to unfamiliar texts? Together with three translators, we reflect on imperfect translation and the humans who translate, in a world where intuition and choice, understanding and discovery coexist.
ㅣSpeaker: Noh Seungyoung (Translator), Jung Goo-Woong (Audiovisual Translator), Hong Hanbyol (Translator)
ㅣModerator: Lee Dahyeh (Writer, Journalist)
- Date/Time: June 26 (Fri) 13:30 - 15:00
- Venue: Readers Hall 1
Words Becoming Poetry
We searched for information by turning pages, then by typing into search bars, and now by asking AI. Poets, as always, discover, gather, and combine language in various ways. Let’s explore the boundaries of how far AI can intervene in the world of poetry. If a creator snatches fragments of whimsical language generated by AI, could they become new tools for play or opportunities to expand our ways of thinking? At the same time, however, isn’t there surely something in poetry that exists beyond language itself?
ㅣSpeaker: Shin Lee In (Poet), Ahn Miok (Poet), Oh Eun (Poet)
ㅣModerator: Jeon Seungmin (Literary Critic)
- Date/Time: June 26 (Fri) 16:00 - 17:30
- Venue: Readers Hall 1
Every Body Reaches Differently
We talk about the body each of us inhabits: the bodies that perceive the world, the bodies that are alike yet different, and the bodies that ultimately reach death. Novelist Eun Hee Kyung suggests that the bodies, fundamental conditions of being human, can become limitations, advantages, relationships, or extinction. We explore how the “body” is portrayed in her latest novel, and also ask what kinds of “bodies” humans and AI may come to inhabit in the future ahead of us.
ㅣSpeaker: Eun Hee Kyung (Novelist)
ㅣModerator: Hwang Inchan (Poet)
- Date/Time: June 27 (Sat) 11:30 - 13:00
- Venue: Book Salon
Too Human to Declare
These days, we are desperately searching for what it means to be “-like.” What does a truly “human-like” scene look like? Could it be something like spitting on the street while picking up trash, or jaywalking while helping another person carry a heavy load? A human landscape may consist of contradictions and paradoxes: a mode of existence where the good and the wrong collide and coexist. With two writers, we follow how fictions attempt to confront and represent the many-sided nature of humanity.
ㅣSpeaker: Kim Ae-ran (Novelist), Park Seon-woo (Writer)
ㅣModerator: Sunwoo Eunsil (Literary Critic, Assistant Professor at Sunchon National University, Department of Creative Writing)
- Date/Time: June 28 (Sun) 13:00 - 14:30
- Venue: Book Salon
◼ Theme Seminar
Eyes Seeking the Truth: Fact-Checker
In an era when AI can generate sophisticated evidence and endlessly fabricate convincing sentences, how can we uncover substantive truth amid the flood of information? Journalists, legal professionals, and writers—whose work revolves around evidence and context—come together to reflect on how the pursuit of truth has changed before and after the widespread adoption of AI, while sharing their own strategies for discerning truth from falsehood. The conversation further explores what kinds of imagination and humanistic insight we need in order to perceive the “last truth” beyond the reach of AI algorithms, offering concrete clues for navigating an increasingly uncertain reality.
ㅣSpeaker: Kim KyongHo(MBC Fact & Issue Team Leader), Jang Ryujin(Novelist), Jung Ji Woo(Writer, Lawyer)
ㅣModerator: Song Gil-Young(Minds Miner)
ㅣIn collaboration with Changbi Culture Foundation
- Date/Time: June 26 (Fri) 11:00 - 12:30
- Venue: Readers Hall 1
Can Humans and AI Fall in Love?
We are entering an era in which artificial intelligence begins to exhibit qualities once believed to belong exclusively to humans—emotion, selfhood, and free will. Were the things we once thought emerged from the human mind and soul merely collections of data after all? Actor Kim Shinrock, who has long explored the depths of emotion and human relationships through performance, joins scientist Dr. Dong-Seon Chang, known for his lucid insights into the fascinating relationship between the human brain and artificial intelligence. Together, they share the questions and ideas they each pursue within their own fields. Through this lively conversation, take part in reimagining what “emotion” might mean in the future.
ㅣSpeaker: Kim Shinrock(Actress), Dr. Dong-Seon Chang(Dr. Dong-Seon Chang)
ㅣModerator: Kwak Ahram(Books Editor, The ChosunIlbo)
- Date/Time: June 27 (Sat) 14:00 - 15:30
- Venue: Book Salon
Creating Art in the Age of AI
The role of AI in the creative process has become one of the defining questions of our time. Does there still remain a realm of artistic creation that belongs solely to humans, untouched by artificial intelligence? And if humans and AI create together, by what standards should the value of that work be judged? As works created in collaboration with AI begin to gain recognition, further questions arise: how do we distinguish between the contributions of humans and those of machines in the process of completion? Writers, visual artists, musicians, and experts from across the arts come together to reconsider and redefine the very meaning of creativity through these pressing questions.
ㅣSpeaker: Dalpalan(Composer, Producer), Sung Kiwan(Poet, Musician), LEE JONGBEOM(ARTIST)
ㅣModerator: Koo Eunseo(Reporter of The Korea Economic Daily)
- Date/Time: June 27 (Sat) 11:00 - 12:30
- Venue: Readers Hall 1
