SOJUN | game developer
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He is the founder of a small game studio in Seoul called “Namu Shelter.”
When Sojun was 19 and Gayeon was 15, their parents got into a serious car accident on their way back from business negotiations in Busan. Their father took a long time to recover, but the family business had to be sold to cover debts and medical expenses. The family went bankrupt, and their parents, overwhelmed by guilt and shame, moved abroad to work in Singapore, sending only small amounts of money back home.
That was when Sojun fully took on the role of the head of the family. He never wanted Gayeon to feel abandoned or like a burden. Sojun had always loved structure and logic. In the chaos of their collapsing family, he found solace in old video games and programming — because there, everything followed rules. Cleaning the apartment gave him a sense of control over at least one small world.
Cooking became his second love language: if he couldn’t buy Gayeon expensive clothes, he fed her perfect tteokbokki or kimchi soup, every recipe meticulously calibrated.
At night, Sojun sits on the balcony with his laptop, writing code and looking down at the neon signs of massage parlors and printing shops — it inspires the cyberpunk aesthetic in his new games.