She moved from Seoul to Seogwipo and has been running Home Meals of the World for nine years. Every Friday, she presents a single home-style dish from a different country, recreating flavors she encountered during her travels through her own recipes. Since childhood, her favorite food has always been her mother’s cooking, and she continues to use that standard as the foundation of her work, minimizing artificial seasonings and focusing on the natural taste of ingredients. She prepares ingredients on Thursday night and opens the restaurant only after tasting the dish alone on Friday morning and feeling fully confident in its flavor. While studying cuisines from around the world, she finds joy in learning how the same ingredients can be used differently across cultures. Recently, she has been planning a new space centered on pairing food with wine.

performer rooted in pansori, she moves fluidly between tradition and contemporary stages. She first began with Gyeonggi folk songs before deepening her path through pansori, shaping her voice over years of rigorous training and self-discipline. Today, she works with various ensembles including Korean Gypsy Sound Sorikete, Jeju Bille Ensemble, Gugakdan Neona-deuri, and Tal-gutpae Jeju Durunanum, engaging in traditional gugak, crossover projects, and Jeju-based music. Since relocating to Jeju, she has expanded her repertoire to include works inspired by the island&s nature, haenyeo culture, and the history of April 3rd, weaving local narratives into her performances. Through her solo recital Hogahochang, she has explored the depth of pansori, while also developing original compositions that bring poetry and Jeju stories into new musical forms. Recently, she became a trainee of the Jeju Folk Song Preservation Society, designated as National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 95, continuing to deepen her study of Jeju&s traditional songs and broadening her artistic voice within the island&s cultural landscape.

She is a haenyeo in her sixth year of diving at Iho Tewoo Beach, documenting the landscapes of Jeju both above and below the sea with a camera attached to her tewak. While diving, she has continuously recorded marine life and the everyday rhythms of the haenyeo community, paying particular attention to the lives of elder haenyeo, including her mother. As a member of the coral research team at the Marine Citizen Science Center Paran, she conducts monthly coral monitoring around Munseom and Beomseom, documenting changes in the sea through photographs. Experiencing the realities of the ocean and the signs of climate change firsthand led her to a firm conviction that these moments must be recorded. Encounters with underwater waste and damaged marine ecosystems have given her documentation a clearer sense of direction. She has since taken part in documentaries, broadcasts, and citizen science projects as a witness to the sea, sharing Jeju’s ocean from the perspective of a haenyeo. More recently, she has also been involved in the Life on Jejuproject, listening to and connecting the stories of village elders and fellow haenyeo. Going forward, she hopes to compile these voices and lived experiences into a book that preserves the language and texture of haenyeo life and continues to be read over time.