Minsoo is a Strategist at Synthesis in the Trends team, with a focus on the Korea market. In her free time, she organises community events at the intersection of culture and art, and she hopes to inspire new ways of bringing data and insight to life.
“Cotard Syndrome” by Kim Oki, a Korean experimental jazz musician I really love. He traverses genres like jazz, spoken word poetry, and R&B so deftly.
Selling Sunset... I have a huge soft spot for reality TV...
How Trees Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond Human by Eduardo Kohn. It’s a fascinating ethnography on Ecuadorian indigenous communities that tries to pay delicate attention to ways of thinking and being beyond the human.
The Minolta Riva 110 Zoom film camera. It’s really great at night time flash photography, and it’s been a joy to take silly photos with friends.
I step out into the city with my earphones playing a good dancey tune, bouncing around as I walk. Some favorite spaces of mine in the city I’ve found so far from meandering include The Drawing Center and the Leslie-Lohman Museum. I’ve also taken to carrying around a small sketchbook, drawing on the subway or on the plethora of lovely benches in New York.
Zines. I love how zines are such an intimate and fluid format, and I enjoy seeing how different people have stretched and reinterpreted the form. Some open out to be posters at the back, some are hand-sewn, some experiment with incorporating transparent paper. The topic and tone can also range from irreverent and fun to political or personal.
I’ve been loving getting to know New York through the zine scene here: so far, I’ve gone to the East Village Zine Fair and the Brooklyn Art Book Fair, as well as stores that stock zines like Printed Matter and Quimby’s Book Store. I’ve definitely picked up one or two (or ten…) new zines since moving here!
Rollerblading. If I could, I would just rollerblade everywhere: gliding into brunch with friends, running all my errands on my rollerblades. I started rollerblading very young, around the age when people usually learn to cycle. So my cycling skills are very questionable but rollerblading I can do.
A cat. Whenever I run into one on the streets I make sure to say hi. Since moving to New York, I now live full-time with two cats – what a treat! They’re both nodding off by the living room windows every morning when I come downstairs to make a coffee, and I love starting my morning with them.
Has curiosity and respect for all the spectrums and different ways of being, human and non-human.
Trying my best, always in flux, open to changing and learning.
Having a favorite park in the city! So far, I’ve checked out Prospect Park and Forest Park – both very strong contenders, but a lot more trees to meet still before I make the call.
