I started writing in college because I had ideas floating around my head that I was afraid to lose. They could be just random, trivial thoughts, but they were mine, and I wanted to keep them somewhere.
I fell in love with writing as putting down ideas into words is like choosing the exact color on a palette. It is a process of understanding the color of the beautiful pink and red sunset in front of your eyes, and laying it down on a canvas.
At the age of 26, I moved to a new country for a new opportunity. I am older than my mom when she brought me into this world, but I still feel like an overgrown child who somehow ended up with a waterfall of opportunities and the fortune of meeting lovely, smart people on the way.
They are also self-portraits of a man, an engineer, a soldier, a son, a lover, an immigrant, a student, a Korean, a friend, and a boy still trying to grasp what it means to live a good life.
2025
Trauma
2024
Career
Engineering
Random, romantic
Startups
- Wall-it
UN peacekeeping
This is about what I saw and experienced in the army, more specifically during my 9 month deployment as part of United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in Lebanon.
Everywhere I lived, loved, hated
I started this series by writing some bullet points about what I think about the country, and realized I end up writing about what I went through while I was living there. So this series is a collection of how I lived, at different points in my life, in different places.
Each place has their own beauty, and I definitely do have places I personally loved more than others. But I’m not trying to rank them here, or compare them in any way. I had the opportunity to live in many places, one I didn’t ask for, but still am grateful for.
- Korea
- Canada
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Ghana
- Lebanon
- Spain
- Ireland
- United Kingdom