I have currently published a total of 10 books on Amazon using KDP. This publication is a record of about a year, starting in the winter of 2022, when I studied storytelling in graduate school. Publishing 10 books in one year shows how passionate I am about children's education and books.
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One of my books was written to teach children common sense about finance in an easy and fun way. To write this article, I received help from my husband, a professor who teaches business administration and finance and conducts related research at Stony Brook University. In fact, through many years of research, he developed a program to measure risk in the stock market. In order to make it visually easy for the public to understand and use, he developed and commercialized a risk weather program in the form of weather.

​Below is a site that informs you that the Risk Weather program is currently commercialized in Korea. I hope that one day some expert will discover the value of this amazing program and make it available in the United States.
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I had to watch one of my closest friends and family members suffer through poor investment in stocks. And my husband and I constantly talked about and worried about these cases. If you view the stock market as a mere place for speculation, overlook its risks, or perceive it as a place where luck plays a role, you will see major failures in the stock market. My husband did research to reduce this risk. I also discovered that we need to study about these risks from a young age. I decided to create a book that would introduce and educate children about the risks in the stock market and the two sides of investing in a fun way.
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​The character in the first book created with this intention was 'Sunny Savings', a pilot character and predecessor to the actual Risk Weather Program.
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​Below is the newly designed commercial version.

I published this book at the end of December last year. And then I discovered that this book was starting to become known to people.

It is currently ranked 11th in the best-selling children's computer software section of the Amazon Store. ​I am grateful that this happened naturally without any marketing tools or help.

​And I found that it was being introduced as a choice award on a blockchain-based community site as shown below.

​It's a new experience to discover that a book I've created sparks this interest.

Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light. 
By Leonardo da Vinci's notebook.

​Light, in its essence, is not merely the absence of darkness but the active force that dispels it. In both literal and metaphorical senses, light serves as the chaser away of darkness, illuminating the path forward and revealing what was once obscured.

Physically, light is the antidote to darkness. Wherever light penetrates, darkness retreats. This fundamental principle of physics underscores the importance of light in our understanding of the universe. From the gentle glow of a candle to the radiant brilliance of the sun, light banishes shadows and brings clarity to our surroundings. Without light, the world would be shrouded in perpetual obscurity, devoid of form and definition.

Metaphorically, light symbolizes knowledge, enlightenment, and understanding. Just as light reveals the physical world, it also illuminates the realms of thought and consciousness. When faced with ignorance, prejudice, or confusion, it is through the light of education, empathy, and introspection that we dispel the darkness of misunderstanding and misconception. Like a beacon in the night, enlightenment guides us towards truth and fosters unity amidst diversity.

Moreover, light serves as a beacon of hope in the darkest of times. In moments of despair and adversity, it is the flicker of optimism, the warmth of human kindness, that pierces through the gloom and offers solace to weary souls. Even the smallest acts of compassion and courage can ignite a flame of hope that transcends the shadows of despair, inspiring others to persevere and strive for a brighter tomorrow.

​I once painted a small picture with $1 watercolor paint with this wish in mind. And I was happy to be able to check the temperature and atmosphere created by the watercolor paint during the time this painting was completed. This feeling of happiness was conveyed and it became the most popular picture among my Pinterest pins.

​And I think that I want to continue drawing light that overcomes darkness like this candle.
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Preparation for the Surrounded by Water.
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This is an open call exhibition at Mills pond Gallery. I decided to draw the sea for this exhibition. And to get ideas, I selected photos that fit this exhibition among the photos I took.

​This exhibition does not seem to require that it be just as beautiful as a landscape painting. Behind the elegance, this is a message about nature that we must work hard to protect and protect. ​I decided to participate in this open call because, more than anything, I could give this message. 

 It is said that in the future, the boundary between AI drawings and hand drawings will become blurred, making discrimination difficult. Art is generally considered to be a unique creative activity that only humans can do. AI develops by constantly learning from vast amounts of information, namely big data. Just as people become smarter the more they study, AI also becomes more sophisticated as it learns and analyzes more information. Advanced AI can accurately fulfill human requests and produce excellent results. AI learning fields are becoming more diverse day by day. AI, which has learned and analyzed countless works of art and famous painters' styles and techniques, has reached a level where it can instantly create images tailored to the user's needs. Many people have vaguely thought that art will not be replaced by artificial intelligence, but the possibility of being mistaken has grown.

The most necessary quality for artists living in the future will be ‘creativity’, which AI does not have anymore. 

​We have heard about the importance of ‘creativity’ through many channels and are well aware of it. As an artist, I also know that in order to survive in the age of artificial intelligence, I need to work in areas that artificial intelligence cannot do. In some articles, I read that even though artificial intelligence has surpassed the abilities of artists by learning at an alarming rate, this is simply a technical aspect and the area of touching people is still far away. In this sense, not as an artist but as an art lover, I think that works of art should not be evaluated based on simple technique or technical aspects.  In this sense, I feel like I have another competitor as an artist. Now artists have to fight against machines, not against other artists who draw well. Of course, art is not a competitive field where you have to beat someone. However, if the art market is limited and we understand that some parts of it are already being taken over by artificial intelligence, there will be less  space for human artists.
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​I asked ChatGPT the following questions.

"How do artists survive in the age of artificial intelligence?"

He answered.

"Ultimately, while AI presents new challenges and disruptions to the traditional art world, it also offers unprecedented opportunities for creativity, innovation, and artistic expression. By embracing AI as a tool and cultivating their unique voice and perspective, artists can not only survive but thrive in the age of artificial intelligence."

Just as we express our art world with paint or other mediums, artificial intelligence art can also be used as a medium. If you look at it this way, now anyone can become an artist, even those who were unable to use their imagination due to technological limitations.

​From this perspective, it feels positive that many people will become artists in the era of artificial intelligence. We and I live in a world of rapid technological change and innovation. No one can predict what direction it will take in the future or whether, as people say, mass layoffs will become a daily routine and humans will have no more place to stand. 

However, I believe that in order to get ahead of artificial intelligence, we need to have a stronger passion than them. In the end, I believe that passion will create art and that this will be the key to distinguishing between artificial intelligence and people. This is because artificial intelligence only answers questions asked by humans and cannot create solutions on its own with passion. Therefore, I feel that as an artist, I need to work more voluntarily and independently.
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Reference: 

​https://weekly.khan.co.kr/khnm.html?mode=view&code=116&art_id=202303101113241