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Here's a laundry list of things you never knew - or never thought you'd find out - about me, in no particular order.  Contrary to what some of you have told me, the information below is entirely accurate.

• Born : October 24th, 1970.  I'm a "passionate" Scorpio.  Supposedly.
  
• Nationality : South Korean.  My opinionated opinions on my country here.

• Height : 178 cm.  That's about 5 foot 10 inches.
  
• Weight : 67 kg.  I used to be skinny as a rail but all those late night ramyon did the job.
  
• Eyesight : Pretty bad.  I've been wearing glasses since 6, I think.  But apparently not so bad because it did zilch for me in terms of military duties( I did the full 28 month variety).
  
• IQ : I never took an IQ test.  Thank goodness.

• Academic Background : Seoul University Class of 96 (entered 89), bachelor of arts in business administration.
  
• Address : Somewhere in the venerable district of Youido.  I have been living on this quasi-island for 19 years and counting.
  
• Marital Status : Single. And proud of it.
  
• Overseas Experience : I lived for 4 years each in Tokyo (1975~77, 1981~82) and London (1982~86).  I was fortunate enough to pick up Japanese and English due to this.  Oh, there's the other few overseas trips now and again as well.
  
• Occupation : Associate Consultant at Bain & Company Korea, located on the 19th floor of the "holy cow, lookaddat gaping hole in the building" Chongro Tower in the heart of Seoul.  Bain is a strategic management consulting firm (and quite a successful one at that, thank you).  I have been working here since late 1998.  If you wanna know what it's like to work for a consulting firm, click here.

• People ask me, "what makes you tick?"  I tell'em, "what do you care?"
• Then I tell'm the following partial list of what turns me on, in descending order.  Those of you who know me can probably figure out what's been omitted.
  

• Watching movies.  I'm an unapologetic movie buff.  Here are my top ten movies of all time.
  
• Playing with the computer.  I love PCs and I own a bona fide mania's collection of PC software gadgets (list of my PC paraphernalia here).  I do a wee bit of programming: the Visual Basic kind, but I am far from where I wanna be.  I think Excel combined with VBA VBA is the most amazing analytical tool you could ever think of. Truly exciting stuff. 
  
• Playing guitar.  Classical, electric, and acoustic (in descending order)  I've been playing since 14. 
  
• Reading.  My favourite authors are Frederick Forsyth, John Grisham, and Sherlock Holmes.  Whoops. Sherlock isn't an author, but who cares?  You can obviously tell that I won't be joining the literary critics club in this life time.
  
• Music.  Rock'n'roll rules, baby.  I like listening to 80's music--some esoteric British bands you probably don't know.  Call me a square, but I can't stand dance and rap.
  
• Playing basketball.  It's been ages since I last touched the orange ball but swooshing is still a major thing for me.  I'm an unfortunate fan of Boston Celtics who are just horrendously crappy these days.  But I'm sure they will rise from the ashes and become a force to be reckoned with again, although not too soon.  The colour scheme of this site is a tribute to Celtic Pride.

• Brain orientation : Apparently, I'm a left-brain guy. Come to think of it, I hardly use the left side of my body.

• Credo : Rock till you drop. Illegitimi non carborandum est.
  
• Best friends : Kyungtae, Soomin, Jeongjun, and Suktae (sorted by age).  Alternatively known as El Loco, SMD, JJ/Gecko and Bear respectively.  Our exclusive Freechal site here.