
Ruin, is a PHD student in Gender and Trans identities. She is the co-founder of the Queer Archives in Seoul.at the Korea Queer Archive. Established in 2002, QueerArch started as a personal archive of Chae-yoon Hahn, a prominent activist who was the editor-in-chief of BUDDY (1998-2003), one of the first queer-themed magazines in South Korea. Today, the collection includes not only Hahn’s personal archive, but also over 700 films that were donated from the Seoul Queer Film Festival in 2006.