Jinwoo Park

This is welcome news for the Canadian literary scene. Oxford Soju Club, the first novel by Montreal-born Korean-Canadian author Jinwoo Park, is garnering significant attention. Published in September 2025 by Dundurn Press, the book is a spy thriller set in the back alleys of Oxford. It deeply portrays the pain of the Korean diaspora and has received a rating of over 4.5 stars on Goodreads. The author, who holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Oxford University, is the 2021 winner of the prestigious Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award, which discovers new Asian-Canadian talent. He has described this novel as a work of "self-healing" that resolves his own struggles with identity.