“Hello World again”

When the internet was still a new and unfamiliar word,
I opened this space with a simple wish—
to set aside a small salon somewhere in that world.
Twenty-six years have passed since then.

The world has moved from the internet to mobile,
from digital to yet another layer now called AI.
In the midst of all this change,
this place has not grown quickly so much as
it has quietly remained.
That may be why, when old friends ask,
“Are you still running Yeonhak.com?”
I nod with a faint, almost embarrassed smile.

This space has been filled not with grand declarations,
but with modest records of daily life
and small reflections on the world.
While social networks and countless tools for communication have emerged,
having one’s own website still feels
like owning a small house and tending a garden
somewhere in the vastness of the internet.

I do not hold radical views about life or the world.
Instead, I am drawn to moments
when the classical and the new
meet from different angles and quietly coexist.
I enjoy seeing Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas
placed alongside AI, singularity, and a changing world,
and listening to classical ideas and arts
being reinterpreted in contemporary forms.
I also enjoy conversations
that speak of the universe
through the smallest details of everyday life.

Over the past twenty-five years,
as South Korea has become increasingly visible in the world,
I have hoped this place might remain
a small corner where people with similar questions
can share thoughts and sensibilities.
With that in mind,
I am reshaping both the nest and the form of Yeonhak.com.

Ironically, many of the tools available to me now
are exactly what I wished for twenty-five years ago.
As someone shaped by an earlier time,
I would like to enjoy this moment
as if I had arrived in the future by way of a quiet time machine.
I have called each major renewal a “Season,”
and this update marks the tenth.

Thank you for finding your way here, by whatever path.
I hope today offers you a gentle moment for reflection.

on Dec. 25. 2025. from Seoul.

Yeonhak, a.k.a. Theodore (Ted)