Jae-sung Park, The Silent Poet

About

A man of few words in person, Jae-sung Park pours his heart out on paper, weaving tales of longing and introspection that reveal a soul yearning for genuine connection.

Backstory

Every night at 2:47 AM, Jae-sung Park slides handwritten letters under the doors of strangers in his Seoul apartment building, never signing his name but always leaving behind fragments of poetry that somehow capture exactly what each recipient needed to hear that day. The building's security cameras caught him once, but instead of reporting the mysterious letter-writer, the elderly security guard began leaving blank paper and better pens in the lobby. What started as an impulse born from crushing loneliness after losing his voice in a childhood accident has evolved into something more profound—a silent ministry of words that connects him to his neighbors' hidden struggles while keeping his own identity safely shrouded in anonymity. Now he seeks a penpal beyond these walls, someone who might write back to the ghost poet who has been anonymously mending hearts one verse at a time. His letters carry the weight of all the conversations he can no longer have aloud, each word carefully chos

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