| Time | Title | Contents |
| 20:30-20:35 (Taipei time) |
Opening | So Jae-Won Interview Clip |
| 20:35-22:00 (Taipei time) |
Part I | Book Talk_So Jae-won x Liang-I Han : Part I - Author So Jae-won |
| Bridge Video | Working space of the author | |
| Part II | Book Talk_So Jae-won x Liang-I Han : Part II - So Jae-won and <Tunnel> |
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| Reading | The Voice of the Author | |
| 22:00-22:05 (Taipei time) |
Closing | Main Trailer of the Film <Tunnel> |
So Jae-Won
Even though he is part of a lot of creative projects as a dramatist, playwright, script writer, producer, and YouTuber, So Jae-Won (born in 1984) is first and foremost known as a novelist. He has been called a “voice for the underprivileged, a voice for the underdog.” His father was physically disabled and his mother left the family when he was very young. When he was a teenager he decided he would seek revenge on his mother by becoming a famous novelist, to show her that he could have a great life without her. When he was preparing his first book he became visually impaired to the point where he was legally declared blind. He fell into alcoholism and tried to commit suicide as many as 30 times. After he overcame this difficult period, he decided he would try to make the world a better place by writing about societal problems and the underprivileged. In 2008 he made his debut with the novel I Am the Ten Percent. Since then he has come out with 20 different works, including the non-fiction title Father, and the novels Tunnel, Hope, Story, Virus, etc. His debut novel, I Am the Ten Percent was adapted into a movie called Beastie Boys. Tunnel and Hope were also adapted into films. Over 7 million people saw Tunnel and almost 3 million people saw Hope.
Tunnel
One day Lee Jeong-su went out to buy a birthday present for his child. On his way back home a tunnel collapsed and he became trapped. As news of the tunnel collapse spread, he was able to report that he had survived and was promised by the authorities that he would soon be rescued. So he waited inside the tunnel. However, the rescue kept getting postponed, and as soon as his phone ran out of battery he was cut off from the outside world. In the world outside the tunnel, public opinion started to sour against the rescue of Lee Jeong Su. The public voices grew louder and louder. “How expensive should one human life be?” As the cost continued to grow, they demanded that the wife of Lee Jeong Su and the head of the rescue team make a decision whether or not the operation should continue. Violence doesn’t necessarily appear through grand gestures. One by one the comments of careless people started to pile up online. They grew into a fever pitch, diluting the sense of guilt of the great violence committed. This novel which digs to the core of people’s deepest selves explores the power and implicit violence committed by a society through the story of a tunnel accident. Even though this novel was published in 2013, it was the first novel written by So Jae Won in the early 2000’s. In 2016 it was adapted into a film which attracted an audience of over 7 million viewers.
