I want to understand how where you grow up shapes who you become.
Everything on this site comes out of that question. I met it in a classroom at Hope Hill in Uganda, in a vocational school for single mothers in Kampala, at the Korea Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka and at the Seoul Africa Festival. My answers so far arrive in three shapes: field work with children and their mothers, a brand that pays for someone else’s next step, and art that asks people to look again.
I am eighteen, I live in Gangnam-gu in Seoul, and I run a running brand called Kikobana that commits five per cent of its revenue to single mothers in Uganda. The field work, the brands and the art are not three hobbies. They are one argument told three ways.
Seoul, Gangnam-gu
Skills
What I am working toward
Three things, and they hold each other up.
People and the places they grow up
Teaching at Hope Hill and working with single mothers in Kampala showed me how much of a life is decided by circumstance. I want to understand that properly, and compare it across countries.
Business with a floor under it
Kikobana, KKUMUL and Berrapy sell something worth owning and route part of what they earn into education and livelihoods for single mothers and their children.
Countries, people and rights
Girls Be Strong, the Korea Pavilion at Expo 2025 and the Seoul Africa Festival taught me that relations between countries are also made by people, and that rights are not optional.
Selected work
ExperienceGENIUS Olympiad 2025In June 2025 I went to Rochester, New York, as one of Korea’s representatives in the Art category of GENIUS Olympiad, and came home with an Honorable Mention for Ice Auction.
ImpactRebranding Girls Be StrongI led the rebranding of Girls Be Strong: a new wordmark and emblem built around one sentence, let girls be girls, not brides.
ImpactUbuntu Network Hopehill in Uganda 2025Back at Hope Hill in Uganda with the Ubuntu Network: a puzzle-piece art class, the Shoes to Hope shoe drive, and the Kikobana bag pattern handed to a vocational school for single mothers.
ArtFrom a grandmother’s courage to the footsteps of peaceI entered the 2026 youth work contest on the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, in the art and design category, with a set of goods designs. The contest closes after this was written, so the honest status is entered and nothing more.Admissions officers, teachers, anyone curious: write to me.
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