About

I’m a civil servant based in Ottawa, Canada — and I mean that with full sincerity. There’s something I genuinely love about working in public service: the idea that what you do, day to day, actually contributes to something larger than yourself.

Outside of work, this blog is where I land.
I was born in South Korea, and my Korean heritage is a big part of how I move through the world — how I think, what I’m drawn to, what feels like home even when I’m far from it.

The theme, if there is one, is something like thoughts and art — the kind of things that make you stop and sit with yourself for a moment. I write about piano, theatre, gallery visits, food, travel, and whatever is rolling around in my head that week. Not a niche blog. More like a mind with varied interests and a need to write things down.
I came back to piano after a long break and now I’m deep in RCM Level 10 prep, which means J.S. Bach is currently both my greatest joy and my greatest enemy. I mess up the same measures daily and keep going anyway.

Musically, I live somewhere between classical and K-pop, which sounds like a contradiction until you’ve heard both at full volume and understood that they’re both just extremely committed to their own drama.

When I’m not at the piano, I’m probably at a gallery, catching a play, or finally trying that restaurant I bookmarked three months ago.

Theatre-wise, I’ll show up for Shakespeare, contemporary work, and musicals — sometimes all in the same month. I think a lot about how art makes you feel — a well-hung exhibition, a performance that lands just right, a meal that somehow says something. I don’t always have the words for it, but I keep showing up.

Travel fits into all of this too. New city, new gallery, new people. I’m happiest when I’m wandering.

I used to write scattered across Instagram and Naver Blog — a post here, a thought there. I’ve written a lot over the years, pieces I actually care about, and it felt wrong to leave them buried across platforms. So I’m in the process of bringing everything together here, starting with posts from 2020 up through the present. At some point it felt right to have it all in one place. So here we are.

Glad you’re here.