Journal
From 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.2026-09-12T10:00:00+00:00KikobanaKikobana is a running brand for women in their twenties and thirties, built on the idea that running slowly is what actually makes you stronger. Five per cent of product revenue is committed to the education, vocational training and living conditions of single mothers and their children in Uganda.2026-08-28T10:00:00+00:00Rebranding Girls Be Strong, and going to UgandaI led the rebranding of Girls Be Strong and then went to Uganda, where I taught art to small children at the Hope Hill learning centre and visited a vocational school for single mothers to hand over techniques from Korea and the pattern for Kikobana’s bag.2026-08-05T10:00:00+00:00A flea market on JejuI took KKUMUL and Berrapy to a flea market on Jeju Island and sold both brands across a table, which is the fastest and least flattering design feedback available.2026-07-18T10:00:00+00:00BerrapyBerrapy is a character brand about two blueberry brothers who move at completely different speeds. The name is berry plus therapy, and the premise is relief from digital fatigue and recovery through nature.2026-06-24T10:00:00+00:00KKUMULKKUMUL is a hand-lettering fancy-goods brand I launched. Its handwriting is unpolished on purpose, because handwriting that is slightly clumsy settles people down, and the brand exists to help someone deliver a feeling they find difficult to say.2026-06-10T10:00:00+00:00MelotoxMelotox is an app I designed to help people reclaim their time and rebalance their digital habits through music, by setting personalised daily usage limits and scheduled breaks that are set to music rather than to a warning.2026-05-22T10:00:00+00:00Ten days at Expo 2025 OsakaThrough a friend of my mother’s I got an unexpected chance to work as an intern at Expo 2025 Osaka, and the ten days I spent there were denser and left a deeper mark than any experience I have had.2026-04-30T10:00:00+00:00Juicy HolidayJuicy Holiday was my entry to the 5th IYAC Global Youth Art Competition in 2025. It received an award, and the work was exhibited in Insadong in Seoul.2026-03-26T10:00:00+00:00Girls Be StrongGirls Be Strong is a non-profit student organisation dedicated to supporting single mothers and their children, and in Kampala, Uganda we provided educational support for young children and financial help for single mothers.2026-02-19T10:00:00+00:00Ice AuctionIce Auction is a painting of polar bears in formal clothes bidding at an auction for a single block of ice, made for the Genius Olympiad art category while I was a tenth-grader at British Columbia Collegiate in Seoul.2026-01-29T10:00:00+00:00Psychedelic PeacePsychedelic Peace is a psychedelic moving-image work I made in Blender, built to make the tangled stress that modern life produces visible — and then to heal it with music.2025-12-11T10:00:00+00:00Bikini CityBikini City is a humorous 3D animation I made using replicas of three cartoon characters, built to put a spotlight on the social trend of phone addiction in a way a poster could not manage.2025-11-20T10:00:00+00:00