A chart room with one job

How the room started

Kim Minjun spent the years before 2017 marking levels for a small proprietary group in Yeouido. The habit there was a single horizontal line, often through one wick, redrawn whenever price embarrassed it. He wanted a quieter hour and a rule he could say out loud: no shading until the swing has a name. In the spring of 2017 he rented the room off Teheran-ro and began sitting with former colleagues who brought their own charts on Saturday mornings.

Those Saturdays did not last. People wanted the hour before a weekday open, and they wanted the sheets printed rather than carried in on a folded screen capture. By 2019 the calendar was private sittings through the week, and pairs of people kept arriving together, so the Wednesday Evening Zone Studio was added with a hard cap of six seats. The instrument for that table is chosen on Monday, shared, and left behind when the evening ends.

Park Haejin joined in 2022 to lead the studio. She had spent four years on an index desk and was more interested in how a daily band and an hourly band argue than in calling the next session. The company stayed at the same address. There is still one room, one long table, and the same refusal to turn a zone map into an order.

What we keep faith with

Zones have width. A swing is named before it is shaded. The participant’s instrument, not a watchlist of ours, is the subject of a private sitting. Orders stay with the person who will live with them. We write those habits into the sitting because they are easy to abandon when a chart looks urgent.

We are teachers of chart markup. The company does not manage money, and a sitting does not produce a recommendation. If that is the hour you want, the desk will feel austere on purpose.