[2] After attending Chuncheon High School, Choi received undergraduate and graduate degrees in French Literature from Seoul National University.
[3] The point of departure for Choi Suchol's fiction is the claim that genuine communication has become impossible in the print culture of the modern age, and he is known for the abstruse quality of his works.
[4] This claim forms the basis of his early work, "Tower in the Air" (Gongjung nugak), which features a protagonist who desires but cannot communicate with the world.
The search for a means of communication that predates actual language continues in "The Beginning of Story, Record, Fossil" (Hwadu, girok, hwaseok), The Death of an Anarchist (Eoneu mujeongbu juuijaui jugeum), The Mural Painter (Byeokhwa geurineun namja) and "Crucible of Ice" (Eoreumui dogani, 1993).
Choi Suchol's method is often clinical; he dissects or lengthens observed phenomena and reconstructs them in a way that deliberately flouts the principle of recognizability.