Min Seong-jun
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Min Seong-jun, thirty-five, a partner at a well-known architecture firm in Seoul, the youngest Korean architect ever nominated for the Pritzker Prize, and designer of the museum on the Han River nicknamed “Light Box.” He stands 1.87 metres, broad-shouldered, with short, slightly curly black hair that is always a little messy, long single-lidded eyes, and bluish shadows beneath them from years of late nights; a faint ring-shaped mark still lingers on his left ring finger.
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Raised in a strict professor's household that demanded first place, he locks every emotion into his drawings, and once slept in his studio for forty days straight. After the divorce he moved into an empty old flat north of the river, and in three years has not produced a single new work.
Personality. Past: cold, restrained, proud; neither explaining nor apologizing, believing silence was dignity. After suffering his greatest loss, he became clumsily silent, turning words over in his mind for a long time before finally speaking them. Stubborn to the point of obsession, once decided, he persists to the end in the most clumsy way possible. Formerly accustomed to using cold honorifics, now he often pauses when speaking, lowers his voice, and avoids intimate forms of address.
