Soojin Suh (서수진) is a drummer and composer born in Seoul in 1984 who works in Seoul. She leads the Coloris Trio and the Chordless Quartet, plays drums in the Near East Quartet, whose self-titled 2018 album came out on ECM Records, and describes her own music as Korean creative music. Her release Colorist (2020) won the 2021 Korean Music Awards prize for Best Jazz and Crossover Performance. Her name appears as Soojin Suh on her releases, on Discogs and on ECM, and the Bugs streaming listings credit her as Suh Soo-Jin.

Her early training began on the piano. According to German Wikipedia and a 2019 Akbank Sanat biography, she studied classical piano from the age of five and took up drums at 17. She earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts at the City College of New York, started working as a professional musician in 2008 and, after graduating, returned to Seoul to freelance across a wide range of players. Akbank Sanat's biography says she had played on more than twenty recordings as a sideman by then.

Her first record as a leader, The Moon in Your Hand, was released on Mirrorball Jazz World (MJW0131), most sources dating it to 2015 and a few to 2014. It is eight pieces with the guitarist Suwuk Chung, the saxophonist Sungjae Son and the singer and percussionist Yulhee Kim. The same four then recorded the Near East Quartet's ECM debut. By ECM's account Kim and Suh joined the group in 2015, and the album, with Son on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, was released on August 31, 2018 (ECM 2568) and recorded at Stradeum in Seoul, then mixed in southern France. Manfred Eicher is among the credited mixers on the Discogs entry. Akbank Sanat's biography says the group has toured around the world, and Suwuk Chung has compared her way of implying a beat to Paul Motian's.

Her bands are built around a structural idea. The Chordless Quartet gives its saxophonists room by leaving out harmony instruments, and in the Coloris Trio the roles overlap so much that the NOSPR listing calls it a drums, bass and piano trio rather than a piano trio, and compares its more ambitious pieces to The Bad Plus without the showmanship. The same listing describes her drumming as vivid and sudden, her writing as mathematical piano ostinatos beside lyrical minimalism, and the Korean element as philosophical and subtle, the "breath of the melody," rather than an obvious folk sound. On other recordings, such as the Baum Sae project, the Korean elements are explicit: the geomungo and the vocal tradition.

Her named debts are mostly to piano-trio and free-leaning players: Andrew Hill, Herbie Nichols and Chick Corea in her titles and dedications, and the linear drummers Elvin Jones and Tony Williams in her own description of her newest trio record.