Personal

• I spent most of my life in Mapo, Seoul. Other than that, I have lived in Xiamen(China), Daejeon(Korea), and Pohang(Korea).
• How to pronounce my name: just put the ‘B’ sound in front of ‘young’!
• I enjoy learning languages, although not active most of the time. Besides Korean and English, I tried learning French, Mandarin Chinese, German. [Duolingo]

Top-10 Favorites (Unordered)

Movies

• In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
• Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Punch Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)
• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
• Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
• The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker)
• Inglourioius Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
• Incendies (2010, Denis Villeneuve)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
• Le Rayon vert (1986, Eric Rohmer)

Albums

• Wave (1967, Tom Jobim)
• The Composer of Desafinado, Plays (1963, Tom Jobim)
• Getz/Gilberto (1964, Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto)
• Wish You Were Here (1975, Pink Floyd)
• Kid A (2000, Radiohead)
• The Bends (1995, Radiohead)
• Gruppa Krovi (1988, Kino)
• Nevermind (1991, Nirvana)
• Innerspeaker (2010, Tame Impala)
• Suede (1993, Suede)

Songs

• Meditação - Tom Jobim
• Triste - Tom Jobim
• Wave - Tom Jobim
• It is not meant to be - Tame Impala
• Pantomime Horse - Suede
• How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
• Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
• Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
• Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
• Спокойная ночь - Kino

Quotes

• “Beauty is our business.” - E.W. Dijkstra
• “A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what’s the problem?” - Philip Wadler
• “All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.” - Paracelsus
• “The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.” - Andrei Tarkovsky
• “Your existence was the crime, life is your punishment” - Dostoevsky
• “The most difficult and challenging thing about directing a film was getting out of the car.” - Stanley Kubrick / Steven Spielberg
• “Permit yourself to open a book and start reading from anywhere.” - Manuel Blum
• “The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” - Albert Camus
• “Love is eternal for as long as it lasts” - Vinicius de Moraes
• “‘snow is white’ is true if and only if snow is white” - Alfred Tarski

Some pics