God of Love · 7
To my little friend · 47
I'm here · 87
Imoogi Lover · 129
Dinosaur Migration Paths · 175

Recommendation
The Most Beautiful Way to Follow the Path of the Heart | Kang Bo-won (Literary Critic) · 217
When I close my eyes, the colors of my heart are all yellow, blue, and green. | Lim Seon-woo (novelist) · 220

Author's Note · 223

“I lost a friend.
I was overconfident that I wouldn't lose that friend.

“A friend you can never lose, there is no such thing anywhere.”
Five Stories That Quietly Examine the Path of the Heart

Kim Hwa-jin's novel, "The Dinosaur's Migration Path," has been published by Swimming Honey, which publishes stories at the pace of life, one book per year.
Through his first collection of short stories, "About Naju," he clearly revealed his side as a tireless explorer of the mind. He evoked a positive response from readers with his spontaneous heart toward people and his tenacity that did not shy away from even the most awkward and twisted appearances.

"The Path of the Dinosaur" is a series of novels that deals with various relationships, especially 'friendships', and contains five stories that quietly observe the movements of the heart.
A familiar yet difficult friendship that becomes close without knowing why and then becomes distant in an instant.
Is there ever a moment when the heart feels more alien than when we are separated from someone? A living, moving heart that is mine yet never truly becomes mine.
May you enjoy this beautiful swimming of the heart with 'Dinosaur'!

“People are like pockets.
“I wonder what’s inside.”
Everything about wanting to look inside and take it out again and show it off

The novel's main characters are four friends - Joo-hee, Sol-ah, Ji-won, and Hyeon-woo - who happened to sit around a table on a hot spring night in May that felt like a tropical night.
Those who have not yet become something form a 'before-becoming group' where they each figure out the necessary efforts to become something.
Within this group, they become particularly close to someone.
I feel like I want to look into it and take it out to show it to you.

"God of Love" is the story of Joo-hee, who is literally the 'god of love'.
Because of this, I've heard compliments like "you're sweet" and criticisms like "you're a jerk," but no matter what anyone says, I have no intention of ignoring my unending love.
As planned, Joo-hee starts dating Hyun-woo, but the ones she really loves are her two older sisters, Sol-ah and Ji-won.
He wants to blend in and mingle with the two.

"To My Little Friend" is the story of Sol-ah, who loves her friend but is sad about their separation.
The expression that Sol-ah hates the most is the idiom 'open the door of your heart'.
Because I always approached the other person first and knocked.
Yet, he stands again in front of the closed door of support.
One day, his worries begin when the dinosaur tattoo 'Pimang' that Jiwon had given him disappears.

"I'm Here" is the story of Jiwon, who gets a tattoo with simple lines, despite her complicated feelings.
Jiwon knows Sol-ah's feelings towards him.
But he chooses to say things that will obviously hurt Sol-ah when the tattoo he gave her disappears.
Why do we hold it in our hands even though we know it's sharp?

"Imugi Lover" is the story of Hyunwoo, who is good at being teased.
Hyunwoo, who had lived without any particular desires until now, develops a clear desire for the first time.
I want to become a 'bead' that Joohee cherishes and looks at.
However, he knows that he is only romantically involved with her, and that the people Joo-hee is actually involved with are Ji-won and Sol-ah.
Still, he can't give up the thought of wanting to become a bead.

"The Path of the Dinosaur" is the story of Pimang, who is a dinosaur, a tattoo, light, and heart.
The bell pepper leaves Sol-ah's wrist and moves inside his eyelid, then moves away from there and towards the sun catcher hanging on the window of his room, and so on.
From his first birth, as the seasons changed and the years changed, the place he reached was… …

“Feeling it all is the only thing I can do.”
Don't become rigid, but move forward vividly toward life.

When we look into the path of the mind that Kim Hwa-jin depicts, we do not only find ourselves in soft and bright places.
There will undoubtedly be a moment when you bump into something, feel pain, and cringe.
Of course, even up to the moment when he starts to stab and kick at will.
So, not only do you get hurt, you also have to experience the hurtful feelings.

So, Kim Hwa-jin stands with people who “want to live feeling the walls, ceiling, and floor wherever they stand.”
People who care for and love someone, but know how purely stupid it is to say, “I will never hurt you,” and when asked what memories they would like to erase, they say, “You can’t edit life.
You have to watch silently.
I am on the side of those who answer, “That’s why I am sick now.”

How often does it happen that we freeze our hearts, not wanting to get sick, and we stop there, hesitating to go any further.
Don't become rigid, but move forward vividly towards life.
That may be the only direction the path of the mind in the novel guides us.