About

A Korean nurse who has been watching markets for thirty years and writing about them, in English, for the past month.


IJin Insight covers what moves markets — Fed policy, oil shocks, Bitcoin cycles, gold flows, single-stock stories like Tesla and Microsoft, and the slow shifts in the global money system. The lens is observer, not analyst. The audience is English-speaking retail investors who want clarity without hype.


The Author


I am a Korean nurse. I have been watching markets for thirty years — since I was a child reading the business pages because I wanted to be rich one day — and I have been putting my own money into them for eighteen.


Most of what I know about risk, I learned by losing. I lost on biotech theme stocks that promised the future. I lost on stocks tied to a presidential candidate. I lost on penny stocks and on a dying industry I thought was due for a comeback. I ignored a relative who told me about Bitcoin for years, and then, late in the cycle, I lost on crypto too.


I learned the rest on night shifts as a nurse, where a small mistake mattered more than I wanted to think about.


I have been to the United States once, for my younger brother's wedding. I write about American markets from Korea, and I think the distance helps. I am not an analyst. I am not an advisor. I am an observer with thirty years of scars and a steady curiosity about why people, including myself, keep doing the same things.


How I Work


I work with AI as a research and drafting assistant. I choose every topic, shape every argument, and write or edit every line that goes out under my name. The judgments are mine; the work to surface data faster is shared. Images on this blog are AI-generated.


What This Blog Is Not


Not investment advice. Not paid promotion. Not affiliate-linked. Monetized only through Google AdSense.


If you take only one sentence with you, let it be this: protect the part of your portfolio you cannot afford to lose, and let the rest be where you are still human.


— IJin Insight

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