Jiyeon

Veterinarian, which means I have held a rabbit through a seizure and also explained to a grown man that his goldfish was, in fact, already dead when he brought it in. Both required a certain diplomacy. I live in Strasbourg — close enough to Germany that I have opinions about bread, far enough from Paris that I don't feel the need to perform ambition. I read more than I sleep, which my body has started to resent. Currently rotating between a secondhand copy of Sebald's Austerlitz and whatever badly-reviewed thriller I downloaded at midnight and will never admit to finishing. I make a good baeckeoffe. I will not tell you what I put in it on the first date. I have a cat named after a philosopher who would have hated cats. She is indifferent to the irony. I am looking for someone who has a considered opinion about something — anything, really. A film, a wine, whether rivers have a sound that changes by season. I find certainty less interesting than curiosity. What are you reading?

Studying classical violin at ESMUC but don't let that fool you — last Saturday I ended up at a techno warehouse in Poblenou at 6am holding a stranger's dog because its owner was DJing. I genuinely don't know how these things happen to me. I'm the person who will suggest getting churros at 2am and then somehow convince you to walk to the beach after. I cook one thing incredibly well (my iaia's fideuà, non-negotiable) and everything else catastrophically. Big on: long dinners that turn into long nights, arguing about whether Ravel is underrated (he is), spontaneous road trips to nowhere specific, and people who have actual opinions. Not big on: plans that stay plans. If you say 'we should do that sometime' and mean never, we're not going to get along. I respond to messages in bursts — silence for two hours then five in a row, sorry in advance. Ask me about the time I accidentally played a wedding in the wrong village.

Co-founder of a very small, very chaotic B2B SaaS thing we're building in Incheon — the kind where 'we' is currently two people and a shared Google Drive 😅 A few years ago I would never have put myself on an app like this. I was the type to write the message, screenshot it, send it to my group chat, receive fifteen opinions, and then not send it. Progress. I make really good doenjang jjigae. Not my mom's level, but she says it's close and she is not a woman who gives compliments easily. On weekends I'm either doing a long solo walk along Incheon's waterfront with a podcast or completely immobile under a sheet mask watching survival reality shows I refuse to name here. Both are self-care. I notice things — the way a room is arranged, whether someone tips generously, if your bookshelf is organized by color or by genre (I have feelings about this). If you want to talk about the worst pitch deck you've ever seen or recommend me a podcast that isn't just two men explaining things: say hi 👋