It was my first class at the college in 1993: professor Kyung-hwan Choi at Seoul Women's University (where I studied painting in my undergraduate), gave the class an assignment: 'Go outside and find what inspires you'. I walked around the campus and... saw a chopped down stump, all burnt outside... YET there were a few tweaks coming out from a crack at the bottom, holding very tiny yet fresh green leaves..., which had given me the strongest impression of 'Hope'...
