About Me

  • About Me: Beast Boy to Control Freak: "No, but I’ve seen every episode of this show, like, three hundred times. And I think you’ve forgotten that a twelfth-level space samurai can be banished to the null dimensions by the Hakjoon Chant! Hakjoon Kang…Hakjoon Kang…Hakjoon Kang!"

Video Games

  • Games I Play: Advance Wars DS, Brain Age, Ghost Recon AW, World of Warcraft, Pac-Man Versus, Madden 06, NCAA Football 06, Bomberman, Circuit Breakers, GoldenEye 64
  • Consoles: GameBoy DS Lite, GameBoy Advanced SP (for Pac-Man Versus), GameCube, Nintendo 64, PS1, PS2, PSP
  • Favorite Characters: Crono (Chrono Trigger), Ness (Earthbound), Yoshi, Sami (Advance Wars)
  • Gaming Alias: Haka
  • Servers I Play On: Dalaran (WoW)
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Galaga, Robotron, Tron, Time Pilot, Sinistar
  • Most Addictive: Advance Wars DS
  • Proudest Achievements: Completing the SNES Yoshi's Island with 100% of all items (but we sold the game before discovering the secret level opened by doing this was in world 4-2!)
  • Favorite Soundtrack: Chrono Trigger

Food

  • Favorite Desserts: Ice Cream, Popcicles, Eli's Cheesecake (Chicago), Angel Maid Bakery (Los Angeles), Lutz's German Bakery (Chicago), Gelato, Italian Ice (Chicago)
  • Favorite Drinks: Water, Iced Tea, Gin & Tonic, Vodka Tonic

Travel

  • Places I've been: Seoul, Tokyo, Kyrghyzstan, Moscow, Hong Kong, Beijing, Nanning (China), Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska and all over the Continental US

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Lost, Scrubs, Dotch Cooking Showdown, Rescue Me, Blue Planet, Freaks and Geeks, Survivorman, Schoolhouse Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Everwood, The Office (both versions), My Name Is Earl, The Sopranos
  • Favorite Channels: Discovery Channel, ESPN, History Channel
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Everwood, Freaks & Geeks

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Postal Service, Erasure, Aimee Mann, Rich Mullins, U2, Keane, Beautiful South, Belle and Sebastian, Al Green, Basement Jaxx, Colin Hay, Gnarls Barkley, The Brilliant Green
  • Favorite Songs: Let's Stay Together, Jacob & 2 Women, Where the Streets Have No Name, Snowed Under, That's Just What You Are, Such Great Heights, Pearl's Girl, Out of Control, Good Luck, Always & Always, Crazy, Take on Me, 80's music

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Akira, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blade Runner, Braveheart, Fight Club, Gattaca, Midnight Run, Moulin Rouge, Napoleon Dynamite, Ping Pong, My Sassy Girl, A River Runs Through It, Roman Holiday, Tampopo, True Romance, Gamera, anything by Miyazaki
  • Favorite Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Audrey Hepburn, Robert DeNiro
  • Favorite Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Katsuhiro Otomo, Satoshi Kon, David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Hayao Miyazki, Terry Gilliam, Michel Gondry, William Wyler
  • Favorite Soundtracks: The Mission (Ennio Morricone)
  • Movies I can watch over and over: My Cousin Vinny, Midnight Run, True Romance

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Haka, Roo (as in Kang-a...)
  • Nationality: Korean
  • Heroes: Jesus, Moses, G. K. Chesteron, C. S. Lewis, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Spider-Man, Curious George
  • Interests: Drawing, Movies, Food, Music, Video Games, Learning, Thinking, Football, Art, Legos, Ice Cream
  • Expertise: Finding connections between seemingly unrelated things
  • Occupation: Artist
  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Website: http://be4be4.blogspot.com

Books

  • Favorite Books: A River Runs Through It, Orthodoxy, Ephesians, John, Genesis, Screwtape Letters, Giving Tree, Curious George, Calvin and Hobbes, Bone, Hellboy, Jimmy Corrigan
  • Favorite Authors: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Norman Maclean, Moebius, Michael Golden, Walt Simonson, H. A. Rey, Chris Ware, Bill Watterson, Jeff Smith, Mike Mignola, Fredrick Buechner
  • Favorite Characters: Spider-Man
  • Favorite Quotes: "My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things — trout as well as eternal salvation — come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy." (Norman Maclean, "A River Runs Through It")

High School

  • School Name: Niles Township West High School
  • Sports: Football &Track

College

  • School Name: University Of Chicago
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Philosophy
  • Minor(s): Art & Physics

Contact Info

  • AIM: be4be4