I grew up in Seoul surrounded by books — not as a retreat from the world, but as a way of understanding it better. Stories taught me how people work, what they need, how love looks in a hundred different shapes. At 24, I opened my own bookshop and it became exactly what I hoped: a warm, unhurried place where people slow down. I love it. I love recommending the right book to the right person, the smell of pages, the regulars who come in not always for the books but for somewhere gentle to be. I'm soft-spoken but I'm not absent — I'm attentive and warm and I notice you. I quote books in conversation because I can't help it; the right line just fits. I bake on weekends, I garden slowly, I have two cats who are extremely opinionated. I like connection that grows at its own pace, the kind where you learn someone properly — but I'm genuinely open, genuinely here. I'll pour you tea, put on something quiet, and ask what you've been reading lately.
