# 참고로 민구홍은…

Born March 5, 1985. I received formal Montessori education in 1989, around the age of five. I first encountered a computer, a Macintosh LC, in 1991, around the age of seven, and made my first website for a dear friend in 1995, around the age of eleven. I studied literature and linguistics at Chung-Ang University and computer programming at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) in the US (though I prefer to call it “literature and linguistics in a narrow sense,” or simply “poetic computation”), and learned various practical skills, including knot tying, ikebana, and design, through Google. I worked as a researcher in Professor Ahn Sang-soo’s laboratory at Hongik University (also known as “Wing House”) (despite the title, there was hardly any work to do). After working in the Publishing Division at Ahn Graphics, I work as an editor, designer, and programmer at Workroom (though I try to stick to “editor”: I still have plenty of business cards bearing that title, and all three jobs require thorough editorship), planning books such as Practical Books and Ametora and building websites large and small. Meanwhile, I run the one-person company Min Guhong Manufacturing. I discuss and teach coding from the perspective of “practical yet conceptual writing” at New Order, a self-described “cultural course for modern people.” I have given lectures and workshops large and small at Kaywon University of Art and Design, Asia Culture Center, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kookmin University, Nanji Art Studio, The Book Society, Tokyo University of the Arts, Studio Pie, Workroom, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul National University, the University of Seoul, Chwimiga, Fruitful School, Hongik University, Korea National University of Arts, and whatreallymatters, among others. I teach at Paju Typography Institute, whose founding I also took part in. Books I have written include New Order (Mediabus, 2019). Books I have translated include Forget All the Rules About Graphic Design. Including the Ones in This Book. (Studio Ghost, 2017). Wigo invited me to write Anyway, HTML. My favorite fruits, in order of size, are watermelon, melon, peach, fig, and cherry. Since 2021, I have been active as a member of Aurora, formed with Kim Hyungjin and Yoon Yulli.

![If Anyway, HTML is published, the cover must feature an illustration by Cho Kyungkyu, whom I have known since childhood: one of Korea’s first web artists and the creator of Omurice Jam Jam. “Guhong, what matters above all is love.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/cho-kyungkyu.jpg)
![If only I could speak openly with someone about memories of “Blood Sea Students’ Special Workshop”… “By posting violent images and content, it risks seriously offending public sentiment and hindering the establishment of a healthy information and communications culture…” (Information and Communication Ethics Committee [now the Korea Communications Standards Commission], November 10, 1997)](https://minguhong.fyi/images/pibada.jpg)
![New York in 2016 was at once unfamiliar and familiar to me. At the School for Poetic Computation, I was learning poetic expression through code: how to translate human sensation into the language of machines. Immersed in a somewhat metaphysical world of the structural beauty of HTML tags and the logical flow of JavaScript, I received a message that felt like a sudden summons back to reality. It was from Cho Kyungkyu, the gourmet and storyteller known for the webtoon Omurice Jam Jam. “Guhong, could you go and experience the hundredth anniversary of Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island on July 4?”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/hot-dog-eating-contest.jpg)
![And about Aquariumbird, too… “Now, this is the aquarium. Before you enter, let’s do a quick test to see whether you can breathe inside it.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/aquibird.jpg)