Son Park is the founding editor and publisher of CINEMAWORDS. He established the publication as a Korean-language critical journal and has led its expansion into English and Japanese.
His editorial project is organized around a single question: why do certain frameworks for understanding human behavior persist across time and culture, and what do they reveal when examined past the surface?
This question drives the MBTI personality series at CINEMAWORDS. The series proceeds not from surface trait descriptions but from the cognitive function architecture beneath each type — the dominant and auxiliary functions that shape perception and judgment, the inferior function that surfaces under stress, and the specific way each type’s characteristic strengths and difficulties are two expressions of the same underlying cognitive tendency. The same method applies to the Big Five personality model and to the Jungian theoretical framework from which both systems derive.
Son Park also writes on narrative structure and myth — the recurring formal patterns through which cultures have organized experience into story, and how those patterns operate inside the specific forms that contemporary visual storytelling takes.
His editing practice proceeds from the conviction that the reader is capable of following a sustained argument and does not need to be managed toward a conclusion.