Solip Park
Game Researcher / Diversity and Game Work Culture / International Communication / Comic Artist
ORCID: ​0000-0001-5581-435X
Solip is a doctoral student at Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture - Department of Arts and Media, with her current research interest focused on immigrants in the video game industry with the interest of cultural diversity in game productions, and gameplay cultures in Finland and South Korea. She is also the author and artist of "Game Expats Story" comic series, and have two master degrees: one from Carnegie Mellon University in the USA (Master of Entertainment Technology), and Aalto University in Finland (Master of Arts) where she was announced as the winner of Game Thesis Competition 2020 by Finnish Game Research Society. Her recent research paper about artistic ethnographical research method "Comic-Making to Study Game-Making" was announced as one of the Honorable Mentions in CHI'24 (ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024).
As for her academic career, Solip work as a co-host and teacher at "Games Now!" open lecture series and cross-cultural online jam at Aalto University, while also working as a project researcher at University of Jyväskylä and its EU-funded "Ontological Reconstruction of Gaming Disorder (ORE)" project. She is also acting as a member of the deputy board at Finnish Game Jam Ry. Solip have co-authored several books and reports introducing Finnish startup ecosystems to Korean entrepreneurs and investors and was once the first South Korean to acquire Finland's startup entrepreneur residence permit in 2018. 
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. She was 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