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This article examines how technological objects mediate interpersonal relations in Kim Cho-yeop’s short stories “Lost on Premises” (관내분실) (S1) and “On My Space Hero” (나의 우주 영웅에 관하여) (S2). Building a paragraph-level comparative corpus, it combines text mining with close reading in a quant-to-qual feedback design. Frequencies and distinctiveness measures (keyness/TF-IDF), paragraph co-occurrence networks, and KWIC are first used to identify salient passages; those paragraphs are then traced back (para_id) and re-read to validate and refine interpretation within the narrative context. The analysis shows two differentiated mediation grammars. In S1, breakdown and restoration of relations are organized through an archive-based grammar in which recording, indexing, and searchability determine the possibility of reunion; loss is marked as non-retrievability and gaps in records. In S2, relations are structured by a passage/performance grammar: modified bodies, training, and institutional procedures define the burdens and conditions of “passing through,” and return appears as a conditional arrival rather than closure. By shifting comparison from shared tech motifs to mediation modes, the article argues that technology functions as an ethical mediator that redistributes care, responsibility, sacrifice, and loss. As a focused two-text case study, the findings are offered as a transferable analytic framework rather than a general claim about Korean SF. Methodologically, it proposes a transparent workflow in which quantitative signals generate questions that are adjudicated through verifiable close reading.

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