I study things too small to see to explain the things we can. Right now that thing is nanocellulose.
A sheet of paper
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What happens at the microscopic scale decides what we see at the macroscopic one. Once you understand it, you can engineer it.
I’ve been poking at things under a microscope since I was six, when a copper sulfate crystal in my mentor’s lab turned out to be much stranger up close. Eleven years later I’m still going back to that same lab.
These days I’m following one material through every scale I can reach. Nanocellulose is the stuff paper is made of, and its tiniest pieces can make color without any dye. Outside the lab I run a cookie business that funds a charity, lead two science clubs, and occasionally do math for fun.
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I met nanocellulose at a paper company, studied it one molecule at a time, then got to watch it change color in my own hands.
Where I first met the material. I pitched commercial uses for nanocellulose, got told why half of them wouldn’t work, and got hooked on the half that might.
↳ but what is it actually made of?
No lab time, so I went small: DFT simulations of how a cellulose molecule vibrates, 129 normal modes, and where a single-molecule model stops matching reality.
↳ okay, now let me touch it
Cellulose nanocrystal films cast at four pH values and three drying conditions, then measured for how much light they let through. Analysis at Ewha, sample prep back in my childhood mentor’s wet lab.
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Every project has its own page with the paper, photos, and the story behind it.
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Every activity comes with a receipt: what went in, in hours, and what came out.
co-founder · the big one
A cooking club I co-founded that turned into a real social enterprise. We bake, we sell, and every won goes to Save the Children Korea. It’s the thing I’m proudest of.
program · Jun 7–25, 2026
Stanford’s math camp: number theory, abstract algebra, and lattice-based cryptography.
dedication104 hrsschool clubs · 2
Two science clubs I run as president. Forums, slides, and a network of five-plus schools.
dedication200+ hrsinternships · 2
A paper company and a university spectroscopy lab. Where the nanocellulose thread started.
dedication360+ hrsvolunteering · 2
Teaching cryptography to younger gifted students, and English at the local library.
dedication150+ hrsco-founder · cooking club turned social enterprise
It started as a club that liked to bake. It turned into a small business with a charity partner, a national award, and more cookies than I can count. Every won goes to Save the Children Korea.
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Click a moment to see the photo from that day.
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Both as president. The receipts are itemized in hours.
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Two places that shaped the nanocellulose thread: a paper company and a university lab.
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Summer programs I went to for the subject itself.
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Teaching younger students and teaching English. Pay: ₩0, receipts below.
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Hover over a prize for the short version. Click it for the whole story.
The version of me that isn’t writing a research paper. Games, food, whatever I’m into this month.
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Thoughts that don’t fit on a resume.
Same bench, same smell of ethanol, and a much taller me.
(*´▽`*)read →On butter ratios, price tags, and what ₩500K a month actually means.
(っ˘ڡ˘ς)read →A crystal, a microscope, and a very patient mentor.
(・・?)read →~/humanities-and-making
Writing, posters, and other things that have nothing to do with cellulose. Click one to read it. (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
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Bake cookies, grow the club, and see if you can raise as much as we did. Your progress saves in this browser.
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