I especially enjoy researching and writing about science, mostly physics, but I also like literary and creative writing. I am a staff writer and web editor for The Tiger Tribune, the print and web newspaper of Seoul International School Middle School, and my essay Violation is Justification won the Gold Award in the Kim Koo International Essay and Arts Competition, sponsored by UNESCO.
Here you can read my Tiger Tribune articles, that essay, and Whirling Waves, a science magazine I researched and wrote, along with We Are Earth, a story about climate change, and my poem A Lively, Unruly Mind.
I report and write for The Tiger Tribune, the print and web newspaper of Seoul International School Middle School, and I help edit and publish stories on its website as a web editor.
Gold Award (1st Place), Lower Division · Kim Koo International Essay and Arts Competition, sponsored by UNESCO
Using Kim Koo and Korea under Japanese occupation as the example, this essay argues that resisting a government is justified when it forces cultural assimilation, uses physical oppression, and strips people of self-determination.
Click to read the essay ↗Award notice from the Kim Koo Heritage Foundation · Oct. 15, 2026
A seven-page magazine on the physics of light and waves: transverse and longitudinal waves, Young’s double-slit experiment, the search for the luminiferous aether, electromagnetic waves, and particle-wave duality. I presented it as an exhibit at a school showcase for Grade 4 and 5 students and parents.
A story told by the Earth itself, following a boy from Los Angeles who grows up during a sand shortage, becomes a material scientist, and helps build a greener world through the “We Are Earth Initiative.”
A research board on why the world is running short of sand, the second most consumed natural resource. It covers the causes, from urbanization to illegal mining, and solutions such as manufactured sand (M-sand) and recycling. I presented it at a school showcase for Grade 4 and 5 students, teachers, and parents.
A descriptive piece about my room, from the gray bunk bed and the crowded closet to my greatest treasure of all, my library of English and Korean books. I wrote it in a parent-child writing workshop offered by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District, and it was published in the workshop's anthology.
