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Showrunner, writer and director with 10+ years leading international series production across live action, animation, puppetry and games. Fluent Korean. BE Computer Science, summa cum laude. US and Canadian citizen, based in New York and Toronto.

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Series

We're From The Internet →2025–2026

Creator, writer, director, executive producer · 10-episode puppet series · Canada · YouTube

  • Created, wrote and directed a 10-episode puppet series, directing multiple puppeteers on a practical build
  • Secured production financing from Nouns DAO, a decentralized funder, to design and build two puppets and deliver 10 episodes
  • Oversaw puppet design and fabrication with Paul Andrejco's Puppet Heap
Mew: Cat in a Dog's World →2024–2025

Series creator, writer, director · 10 × 7–8 min CG animated series · Korea–US–Indonesia co-production with Locus Animation · Release pending

  • Created the series and directed 10 episodes of CG animation across a three-country production pipeline
  • Directed a voice cast including Dave Fennoy, Chris Niosi and Leigh Joel-Scott
  • Ran story and design review with an animation studio working in three languages and multiple time zones
Dramaworld, Season 2 →2020–2022

Showrunner, executive producer, co-creator, co-writer, director · 10 × 30 min · Korea–US co-production · Amazon Prime, CBC Gem, iQiyi, ITV, U-NEXT, TVING, SBS On Demand

  • Ran a writers' room and led a 100+ person crew in multiple languages
  • Directed all 10 episodes and supervised post through delivery to seven distributors
  • Cast and directed Liv Hewson, Daniel Dae Kim, Ha Jiwon, Justin Chon and Brett Gray
Dramaworld, Season 1 →2015–2016

Showrunner, executive producer, co-creator, co-writer, director · 10 × 12–15 min · Korea–US co-production · Originally Netflix and Viki, now Amazon Prime

  • Co-created and ran the series that won Most Popular Foreign Drama of the Year at the Seoul Drama Awards
  • Took a series from idea to delivery as a first-time showrunner
  • Analyzed in four peer-reviewed media studies articles in Korea and the US (2017–2022), including International Communication Gazette
Amuse-Bouche2018

Co-creator, co-writer · International food-crime series optioned by Bob Shaye's Unique Features

Experience

Founder, Showrunner · Monster Hunter For Hire2023–present

Own production company for independent series and features: development, financing, crewing, vendor contracting and delivery

  • Created and wrote G.O.R.G.O.N., an original half-hour action-comedy series pitched as James Bond meets Arrested Development. Pilot script and series deck complete, including a full season-one arc
  • Developing Fee-Fi-Fo-F@$%, an original body-horror comedy feature about the anxiety of becoming a first-time dad (The Fly meets Big Daddy)
Writer · AdHoc Studio2023
  • Broke story and characters for Until Dawn 2 in the writers' room, working inside an established franchise and canon
Co-CEO, Supervising Writer, Director, Producer · Verse Studios2022–2023

Music label built for virtual platforms; launch project was EXE, a CG K-pop boy band. Selected for Seed Club's accelerator.

Narrative Designer, Writer · Derivative Outstation 1192022
  • Built the story world and wrote 500+ pages of script for an open-world MMORPG
COO, CCO · Third Culture Content2015–2023

Seoul and Los Angeles production company making cross-cultural stories

  • Ran operations and creative across two countries for eight years; hired and managed a team of four alongside a co-founder
  • Produced both seasons of Dramaworld in-house
  • Built and ran the development slate, packaging and pitching original series to US and Korean buyers

Teaching

NYU Tisch School of the Arts · Career Day panelist, "Landscape of First Features"2026
Australian Film Television and Radio School · Showrunners' Panel2022
Australian Film Television and Radio School · Lecture, Deep Dive into Dramaworld2021

Education

MFA, Film Production · New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Asia
BE, Computer Science, summa cum laude · Virginia Tech
Certificate in Korean Language · Yonsei University, Seoul

Skills

Showrunning · Series development · Writers' room leadership · Episodic directing · Puppetry · Animation · Franchise and IP development · Script development · International co-production · Post supervision

Generative AI for development, previs, image generation, mockups, music and voice performance · Onchain funding and DAO governance · Ethereum and NFT releases

English (native) · Korean (fluent) · US and Canadian citizen