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About

Soomin Kim is a musical bookwriter and lyricist whose works explore quiet resilience, emotional isolation, and the fragile moments where language and music meet. Her musicals have been produced and showcased in Korea, Japan, and China.

📍 Seoul, South Korea
✉️ soominscripts@gmail.com
🌐 soominscripts.com


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Selected Works & Productions

2026

Musical Rappaccini’s Garden — Tokyo Premiere (Book & Lyrics)
Book & Lyrics by Soomin Kim
New National Theatre, Tokyo

TOHO Creator's Showcase 

Selected Writer, Development & Presentation of New Musical,

Theatre Creation, Tokyo

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2025

Musical Rappaccini’s Garden — Arco Live Capture → CGV Nationwide Screening (Book & Lyrics)Korea Arts Council / CGV

Musical Nameless, Junhee (Book & Lyrics)

K-Musical Festival Showcase · Shanghai

Musical The Perfect Plan to Be Your Friend (Book & Lyrics)K-Musical International Market — Final Selection

Musical Rappaccini’s Garden — Seoul Production (Book & Lyrics)
Plus Theater, Seoul
Full-run production 

Musical Nameless, Junhee (Book & Lyrics)

Link Art Center Dream Theatre, Seoul

Full-run production 

2024

Musical Rappaccini’s Garden (Book & Lyrics)
Korea Arts Council — Selected as “New Work of the Year”

Published short story (Fiction)

Midsummer’s P.E. Class

(pen name: On Hana)
included in the anthology Today is Today’s Day

2023

Musical Spectrum (Showcase) (Book & Lyrics)
Into the Creation Program — Creative Talent Development

Novel Midsummer’s P.E. Class
Kyobo Book Centre Story Contest — Youth Fiction Prize

2022

Musical How to Become a Boy (Book & Lyrics)

Reading Performance, K-Arts

2021

Musical The Day Tom Died
Selected for New Play / Musical Development Program


2020

Musical Rappaccini’s Garden (Book & Lyrics)
Musical House Black & Blue Program — Final Selection


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Education

MFA-equivalent Program in Musical Theatre WritingKorea National University of Arts — Book & Lyrics

BA in Korean LiteratureDongduk Women’s University

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Training

 

Chungmu Art Center Musical Creation Academy
Completed Short-Form (2016) & Full-Length (2017) Courses

 

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