Solip Park (Doctor of Arts)
Game Researcher / Diversity and Game Work Culture / International Communication / Comic Artist
ORCID: ​0000-0001-5581-435X
Solip Park (DA) is a post-doc researcher at the University of Jyväskylä and Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, with research interests focused on immigrants in the video game industry, cultural diversity in game productions, and gameplay cultures in Finland and South Korea. Solip is also the author and artist of "Game Expats Story" comic series, which is part of her doctoral dissertation "Understanding Game Work Migration: Game Expats in Finland" (research-based, graduated 31.12.2024). Her work was announced as the winner of the Dissertation Award 2024 by Aalto University. Solip has two master's degrees, one from Carnegie Mellon University in the USA (Master of Entertainment Technology), and Aalto University in Finland (Master of Arts), which was announced as the winner of the Game Thesis Competition 2020 by the Finnish Game Research Society. 
Solip is currently a lecturer at EU Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters "Replay" and a co-host at "Games Now!" open lecture series at Aalto University, while also working as a post-doc researcher at University of Jyväskylä and its EU-funded "Ontological Reconstruction of Gaming Disorder (ORE)". She is a member of the deputy board at Finnish Game Jam Ry and member of the board at DiGRA-K (the South Korean chapter of the Digital Game Research Association). Prior to her academic career, Solip worked at game companies and startup scenes in the USA, South Korea, and Finland, focusing on project management, event coordination, and international relations - and once the first South Korean national to acquire Finland's startup entrepreneur residence permit in 2018. Solip is also one of the founding members of Nexon Computer Museum - the first permanent museum in East Asia dedicated to the history of computer and video games, located in South Korea. 
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Solip Park