In 1988 I started an architectural practice in Adelaide, South Australia: 'Paik Associates'. In 1994, I arrived in Italy with my wife, a child of emigrants from southern Italy, and our two sons. I circulate between Rome and Bevagna where we live, and Chiusi where I design gardens with the great naturalist, Enzo Margheriti. I dabbled in graphic design for a few years. I learnt to write in HTML. I produce the online journal, 'Our Architecture' and maintain the literature studies site, 'Fine Minds'.

I learnt English at the age of nine. I learnt Italian as a matter of necessity.

I write essays to separate opinion from spirit. I write poems where the words make the thoughts. 'Magnus White', (my name translated into English) is a singer-songwriter.

My personal background is nomadic. My parents are both from northern Korea. They escaped to Seoul from the Soviet invasion at the end of WWII. I was born in 1957. My family moved overseas when I was nine. A few years later I was sent to Westminster School in Adelaide. Thereafter I studied a year of engineering, then switched to architecture at the University of Adelaide. I graduated in 1982.

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