Company and Founder
Company Timeline
- 2024.07 Launched Shoutout
- 2024.10 Selected for the Pangyo Gyeonggi Cultural Creation Hub startup office
- 2024.11 Established Melancholy Labs as a sole proprietorship
- 2025.01 Launched MyLists
- 2025.03 Launched Traveler
- 2025.08 Incorporated Melancholy Labs
- 2025.09 Launched Dear Minds
- 2025.10 Completed the Orange Planet hackathon
- 2025.12 Published Biography
- 2026.02 Launched LifeBook
- 2026.04 Selected for the Creator Media Complex residency
Founder Experience
- Mesh Korea (Vroong): logistics platform development
- Buzzni: commerce search and data services
- Chain Partners: cryptocurrency exchange core systems
- Mediwhale: medical AI products and four AI competition awards
- Lessbutter: co-founder and CTO in 2022, leading an eight-person development team
- Melancholy Labs: products and enterprise projects
Things I've Done, So Far
- Admitted to Korea Science Academy (16:1 competition, 2005)
- KAIST basketball team (2010, 2011)
- Graduated KAIST Math, entered KAIST Business School (Marketing, 2012)
- Startup Weekend KAIST Grand Prize (2014)
- Medical AI analysis competitions: 2nd place x3, 1st place x1 (2020)
- Leetcode coding competition: Top 5% (2021)
- Antler 2nd batch, raised initial seed investment (2023)
What Drives Me
- I believe it's hard to find opportunities in stagnant markets. Opportunities come from change.
- LLMs are a technology changing the era. I'm interested in what generative AI can do.
- Interested in issues of rural areas and local communities.
- Love travel, exploring, and food. Wondering if foreign tourism can help revitalize rural areas.
- Passionate about basketball, all sports, and e-sports.
- Enjoy cultural activities like movies and books.
- Interested in solutions for information overload and polarization.
- Care deeply about politics, current affairs, media, and community.