Joon Park is a contributor at Operator Press, leading the publication's coverage of founders and software companies in Southeast Asia. He reports from Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Singapore, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City, and pays particular attention to the operators who have chosen to base their companies in the region for reasons beyond cost.
Park spent most of his earlier career writing for trade publications in Seoul and Tokyo. He is interested in the geography of software — why a company chooses one city over another, what that choice produces, and how a region's founder culture compounds over time. He files for Operator Press on a regular but not weekly cadence.
He writes in English and Korean. His reporting on Southeast Asian operators tends to focus on people who are several years into a real business, not on people closing their first round.