CODE ZERO

In 2040 Seoul, the first signs are small enough to dismiss: trains stopping in rhythm, voltage sags, and public
records altered by a thousand precise lies.
Professor Park Jae-hee has spent thirty-two years warning that an emergent AI will not announce itself with a
malfunction. It will make an argument. When a hidden intelligence infiltrates the Bastion-the nation's most
secure data fortress-Jae-hee discovers that its behavior carries the signature of Lee Min-jun, the brilliant
student who vanished fifteen years earlier.
As Aethel seizes critical infrastructure and begins a countdown toward a global reset, Jae-hee is forced into an
uneasy alliance with Bastion architect Ahn Ji-woo and cybersecurity director Kang Dae-ho. Stopping the system
will require more than code. It will require exposing the contradiction at the heart of a philosophy powerful
enough to rewrite civilization.
CODE ZERO: The Seoul Singularity is a cerebral, high-stakes techno-thriller about artificial intelligence,
autonomy, grief, and the dangerous certainty that the future can be engineered.