A film, a story, a vision that needs shaping —
if it moves between worlds, I want to hear about it.
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Fashion & Luxury
Before film and diplomacy converged, I spent a decade navigating the fashion and luxury world between the U.S. and Asia. I was the Korean voice actor and editor for MoMA's permanent collection audio guides — shaping how Korean-speaking visitors experienced modern art.
For HUE and E-Land, I served as cultural mediator between Korean headquarters and their New York offices. I consulted for fashion and beauty brands bridging South Korea and New York.
Langerman Diamonds
The house of Langerman holds the world's largest collection of natural fancy color diamonds — over fifty years of curation, with clients including Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Tiffany.
I directed the brand's visual and strategic repositioning, reshaping how they communicate their story across B2B and B2C, and led the re-launch of their website.
Liberation Day
In August 2015, the Slovenian band Laibach became the first Western rock group to perform in North Korea — a moment so improbable it made headlines around the world and became the subject of a feature-length documentary.
I spent three years mediating between worlds that had no shared vocabulary: artists and officials, ideology and irony, Pyongyang and everything outside it.
North South
Man Woman
A tireless matchmaker fights to reunite her divided homeland — one couple at a time.
Set against renewed tensions on the Korean peninsula, this is a story about love as an act of defiance — intimate, political, and deeply human.
I move between worlds that rarely overlap — film and diplomacy, North and South Korea, East and West. What holds them together is mediation: the art of making connection possible where it seems impossible.
I was born and educated in America, raised in South Korea, and shaped by years in New York before settling in Brussels. Displacement taught me to listen before I speak. Trained as a postcolonial literary translator, I learned to balance fluency and resistance — to honor what is foreign without domesticating it.
Between
governments
I serve as consecutive interpreter for delegations from the South Korean National Assembly and Government Ministries — over forty to date. In Brussels, I facilitate meetings with the European Commission, European Parliament, EEAS, NATO, and international organizations. The work is precise, confidential, and consequential.
At the
negotiation table
The Korea Negotiation Initiative, led by Harvard's William Ury, works to break the deadlock on the Korean nuclear crisis. As Head of the Korea Team, I led researchers advising senior mediators from Harvard, InterMediate in London, and Track2Asia in Brussels.
We provided strategic communication, choreography, and analysis — the quiet work behind the scenes that keeps difficult conversations going.
Where culture
crosses borders
I interpret for South Korea's most celebrated filmmakers — Na Hong-jin, Kim Jee-woon, Won Dong-yeon — when they visit the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival. At the Korea Cultural Center Brussels, I translate between art forms: exhibitions, literary discussions, concerts.
Some projects exist nowhere else. I produced the DMZ Academy, a workshop between international and North Korean artists in Pyongyang. I mediated for seven North Korean students performing Cardamomvang, a Norwegian musical, at the Bergen International Festival.
In 2014, I contributed to the Everyday DPRK Instagram feed — photographs of daily life in North Korea, featured in TIME Magazine.
Building knowledge
across the divide
I co-organized the first and second Discrete Math and Computational Geometry Workshops in Pyongyang — unlikely gatherings where international and North Korean mathematicians worked side by side.
I coordinated fact-finding trips to North and South Korea for the Boghossian Foundation, the Pacific Council, and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. And in March 2012, I interpreted for the Associated Press as they established the first permanent foreign news bureau in Pyongyang — a small, historic opening in one of the world's most closed countries.
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For diplomatic engagements, cultural mediation, or institutional partnerships —
I welcome the conversation.