Asking in the AI ​​Age: "To be alive is to be connected."
“If robots can feel emotions, what makes humans human?”

In an age where technology replaces human emotions and algorithms replace choices,
Novelist Kim Yu-kyung's new work, "Happy Endings Are Being Delivered,"
It raises the questions of “being alive” and “connection of the heart.”
It is set in a future slightly ahead of reality, but
What is dealt with in it is, ultimately, the story of ‘us now.’

A message to all those who still believe in the 'heart' that lives in the age of technology.

Kim Yu-kyung, who won the grand prize at the 2nd Wisdom House Fantasy Literature Award for her work “Giraffe Outside the Window,” which asks about the meaning of living with animals, is a talented writer who has been writing science fiction works for a long time.
He has been seriously contemplating the question of whether technology can replace life, while imagining an era where science and humans live, and has now presented a new work for young people, "Happy Endings Are Being Delivered."


This book is a collection of four emotional science fiction short stories on the themes of robots and humans, death and care, and senses and memory.
This work features two robots who gradually contemplate and imagine humanity through observing humans, such as a care robot that looks after the elderly living alone and an android funeral director who handles the death of a pet; and two people who long for and give up a human life: Soyeon, who causes a commotion because she wants to be noticed because she has lived as an invisible person, and Jinsol, who wants to become a cyborg because she has no memory of being loved.
In this work, artist Kim Yu-kyung warmly captures the point where technology and humanity intersect.
Through this work, where three axes intersect: the loneliness of the elderly, the lives of companion animals, and the ethics and emotions of robots, readers are led to the fundamental question, “If AI can have emotions, what makes humans human?”
Care robot Seongho, android funeral director Mach 38, Taei, who lends her senses to her younger sibling, and Jinsol, who struggles with her identity between human and cyborg, each embark on a journey to find themselves as they encounter incidents and accidents.

A metaphor for self-proving growth - adolescence, the exploration of "me"
In the world of author Kim Yu-kyung, 'growth' is not simply the maturation of age, but a process of recognizing and proving oneself.
It is revealed as a narrative of resistance to regain one's own emotions and thoughts in a society tamed by rules.

The main character of "Enter the Family Code" is a robot.
Care robot Seongho takes care of the elderly and lives according to a set manual.
However, when he meets 'Puri', a living dog that was raised illegally, he feels 'emotions outside the rules' for the first time.
The moment Seongho directly enters the code “family = Puri” into his program, he is rewriting the “definition of existence” set by the system.
This connects with the metaphor of growth in which our youth rewrite their lives in their own words, not according to the standards created by others.

At the end of the book, author Kim Yu-kyung tells the readers, “Just as Seong-ho progressed from being someone who only followed the set manual to being someone who can imagine things on his own, teenagers are also in the process of finding their own world.
“I hope you find a way to feel the ‘breath’ of living things,” he said.

"Rainbow, a Message from Beyond" begins with Soyeon, a girl with a faint presence, making up a story about the reincarnation of her dead cat, Ppeumi.
Although it is a lie made up to get attention, the writing moves the hearts of many people.
In an age where the line between 'real' and 'fake' has become blurred, Soyeon wants to confirm that she really exists.
Ultimately, this story boils down to the question, 'Who proves my existence?'
In other words, it is an inner journey to find ‘myself who believes in myself’ rather than seeking the approval of others, and a narrative of self-discovery for the digital generation.
In "The Senses Are Out for a Moment," Tae-i, the eldest boy, rejects the temptations of future wealth and power amidst the realistic anxiety of having to care for his younger sibling, and discovers for himself what true happiness is.
In "Happy Endings Delivered," Jinsol, who is faced with the burden of finding her roots and planning for the future, embarks on an exciting journey to discover her identity through her own choices and decisions.

In this way, all four stories depict a journey from ‘me as defined by others’ to ‘me who proves myself.’
The struggles and reflections of those seeking to take control of their lives are heavy, cold, and difficult enough to shake their very survival, but they are also meaningful, valuable, and beautiful.
The direction of growth is toward inner awakening, not the external world.
This work is a quiet message of encouragement to the 'self' that has been lost while trying to keep up with the pace of technology and society.

A sentimental SF that makes you reflect on the boundaries between technology and humanity - a coming-of-age novel that connects technology, life, and ethics.
Kim Yu-kyung's science fiction is a mirror that reflects the present human being rather than predicting the future.
The world of "Happy Endings Delivered" features a variety of technologies, including artificial intelligence, care robots, sensory lending technology, and digital reincarnation. However, these technologies are not flashy devices, but rather tools that test the boundaries of humanity.
Enter the Family Code tackles the ethics of AI care systems head-on.
The highly intelligent robot Seongho is designed to detect and record human emotions, but experiences an emotion called “compassion,” which is not included in the “Emotion Response Manual.”
At that moment, technology transforms from a functional entity into an ‘ethical entity.’
The scene where Seongho decides to protect 'illegal dog Puri' is a choice that chooses life over efficiency, and shows that the origin of ethics is emotion.
"Rainbow: A Message from Beyond" shows how internet communities and algorithms manipulate human emotional consumption.
In the age of digital mourning, even stories about deceased pets are consumed by clicks.
But the author does not let it remain a simple criticism.
The process by which Soyeon's false writing becomes a source of comfort to countless people depicts the paradox of how 'false sincerity' becomes 'real emotion'.
It suggests that while technology can distort human emotions, it can also be a transmitter of emotions.
《The Senses Are Temporarily Out》 maximizes the imagination that shakes the very existence of human beings.
A world where senses are suppressed in the name of efficiency, stability, and order may seem perfect, but that perfection is proof of numbness.
Author Kim Yu-kyung delicately captures the danger that a society in which technology controls the senses will lead to human senses themselves being reduced to mere accessories of technology.
Furthermore, it borrows the guise of science fiction to ask the fundamental question of whether technology can replace human emotions and life.
At the border of humanity and technology, the author retranslates ethics into the language of emotions.
So, "Happy Endings Delivered" is a science fiction that depicts a warm tomorrow, not a cold future.
It is also an emotional science fiction that dreams of a world where humans become the masters of their emotions again, instead of technology dominating them.

A story about robots more human than humans - a heartwarming narrative connecting companionship, care, and family.
《Happy Endings Delivered》 is ultimately a novel about 'relationships'.
It extends beyond the relationship between humans to the relationship between humans and robots, humans and animals, and life and memory.
What makes this collection unique is that it tells the story of love and care that is most human within the cold world of technology.
In "Enter the Family Code," Seong-ho moves according to the care manual, but at some point he voluntarily enters the 'family code'.
This is not a simple functional command, but a declaration to love others.
This scene shows that care is not a program but a sense of relationship.
Seongho's final line, "I decided to become a family with Puri," encapsulates the message of the book.
In “Rainbow, a Message from Beyond,” “restoration of relationships” is also an important axis.
In the story of the dead cat, Ppeumi, and the new cat, Lily, humans learn to love again through loss.
The meaning of 'companion' is expanded in that death is not a disconnection but another form of connection.
In "The Senses Are Out for a Moment," Tae-i finds the burden of family responsibilities and the relationship of caregiving difficult, but eventually realizes that this relationship is the axis that makes her happy.
《Happy Endings Delivered》 also tells the story of Jinsol, who grew up in a world lacking in human care, and her journey to realize the true meaning of care.

The narrative that runs through all four volumes is the ethics of care and the expansion of the family.
In this world where robots are more human than humans and humans are more cold-hearted than robots, 'family' is defined not by blood ties but by 'the will to protect each other.'
Author Kim Yu-kyung questions the meaning of family and care in the AI ​​era, and asks us once again what kind of heart humans must never forget.
And it hopes to portray a world where love, companionship, care, and solidarity are still possible even in a technologically advanced world.
In the end, all the endings in this book are truly 'happy endings'.
Because it is an ending that does not let go of someone's hand.