Why, hullo.
I’m Won. I fix things.
I’m Korean, but grew up in Singapore and France, stacking up two separate failed careers along the way -- in classical music, then in advertising -- before one can vote in the United States. I’ve been without a permanent home for several years now, splitting my time between New York, San Francisco, and Asia.
I've stumbled into the tech community, both as a serial entrepreneur as well as on the VC front, by way of another misguided career attempt -- this time in academia, chasing analytic philosophy instead of sitting in its Chesterfield, so to speak. The only folks who were mad enough to take me on was a Natural Language Processing company at the MIT Media Lab, but only after I thought a walking/cross-land holiday across war zones was a fine idea.
John Lilly thinks I’ve got a “pretty fascinating take on messaging, content, engagement, the future”, which since it has now been documented on the internet, must clearly be true. I advise a few startups and investors in this space, and some innocent souls have even attended talks where I gesture wildly about the future of mobile in emerging markets, often subjecting them to presentations with famous internet cats. With my latest development-stage startup, I've been going where refugees and their smartphones end up, in both Africa and Europe.
I also spend of a lot of time learning how to hurt people, and frequently get beat up in the process instead.
If you’re looking the more whimsical stuff by yours truly, try this: sayhi.co
If you’re looking for the film stuff, may I direct you here:Inside JobNo End in SightThe Opportunist
If you’re looking for the North Korea stuff, here’s a good place to start:Chosun ExchangeNK News
Not finding what you’re looking for? Drop a note to whc at my full name dot com— though at your own risk, of course.
Love,
Wonkers xo