PROJECT V · MAIN CHARACTERS
Discover Korea
through two perspectives.
Virtual creators sharing Korean culture and life today.
Culture storyteller · K-culture editor
9 Shorts · Character MV
Instagram · YouTube · X — coming soon
01 · MEET THE CHARACTERS
Colleagues and best friends on equal footing, sharing Korean culture and life today from different perspectives.
CULTURE STORYTELLER
Stories from the past,
told with warmth.
A friendly cultural storyteller sharing stories of food, travel and heritage.
K-CULTURE EDITOR
Korea today,
in her own rhythm.
A K-culture editor sharing today's Korea through music, fashion and games, with a rhythm of her own.
SHORTS & MV
Shorts on Korean culture and a character MV.
Production assets: 4
Stills from the Shorts we produced and the MV review cut.
Official social channels are planned.
Virtual characters created with AI, with human planning and review.
MANIFESTO
We don't replicate characters.
Each connection brings a new life into being.
WORKS
Characters for local tourism, stories shaped by choices, data for policy, and games of survival and deduction. Explore each project's current stage alongside the work actually created.
Explore Andong with an AI character wearing a Hahoe mask. Source-grounded conversations, an original performance inspired by Hahoe masks, travel routes and souvenir cards come together in one web experience.
From a story you read to a story you choose. From Hong Gildong's adventures to Admiral Yi Sun-sin's seas, explore familiar tales through vivid scenes and voices, with different endings at each crossroads.
Identify diplomatic missions where risk is high and protection capacity is limited. This policy decision-support tool ranks protection priorities for missions worldwide using only South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs public data.
A turn-based survival and relationship mystery game. A storekeeper trapped in a collapsed convenience-store storeroom observes and talks to people through a small hole, passing them supplies and information. The prototype's local Windows build is being tested.
TALON · LOCAL TOURISM AI
TalON is a tourism AI character web demo inspired by Hahoe masks and local stories. Conversations help visitors explore places of interest while checking sources and distinguishing facts, legends and fiction.
Discover stories through an original performance combining mask changes, voices and lyric subtitles. Choose a half-day or full-day route suited to your mode of travel, open it in Kakao Map and save the experience as a souvenir card.
The performance is original content inspired by traditional music. The on-screen character is a fictional creation made with AI technology. The service and content remain under testing.
Hanpyeon · Yi Sun-sin and the Battle of Myeongnyang
Hanpyeon
From Hong Gildong's adventures to Admiral Yi Sun-sin's seas and the Three Little Pigs combining their houses, meet familiar stories through vivid scenes and voices. Take a different path at each crossroads and discover unexpected endings.
As you immerse yourself in a story, explore the materials behind it. Original records, modern-language interpretations and creative adaptations are presented separately.
Korean · English · Japanese · Chinese
Next, a story of your own. A creation studio is in preparation, where you can write dialogue, choose scenes and connect different endings.
Prototype development screen · Concept art
PC GAME · PROTOTYPE
You are trapped in the back storeroom of a collapsed convenience store. Through a small hole in the wall, observe visitors, talk to them and decide who receives your limited supplies and information. Piece together words and visible clues in this turn-based survival and relationship mystery game.
Built with Godot and GDScript, the local Windows build runs from the prologue through one episode's ending and epilogue. The prototype is currently being tested, and its on-screen art is still in the concept stage.
Read-only demo screen
CRPI
CRPI — Consular Resource Priority Index — is a policy decision-support tool that ranks protection priorities for diplomatic missions worldwide using only public Ministry of Foreign Affairs data, such as travel advisories and safety notices. It combines risk (travel advisory level), exposure (the local Korean population and visitors) and response capacity (mission staffing) into one score, highlighting missions where risk is high and protection capacity is limited.
The rule-based scoring formula is transparent, allowing each score to be traced back to its source data. Generative AI is used only to assist with unstructured text, such as summarizing safety notices or interpreting disaster bulletins. In emergency mode, AI suggests indicator mappings from an uploaded disaster bulletin. After a staff member reviews and confirms them, the rule engine calculates disaster-adjusted rankings separately from routine scores. CRPI proposes; people decide.
ORIGINAL IP
Project V's original IP covers worldbuilding, characters and works across media. Its world, character and narrative plans and specifications are currently being refined.
This creative planning work is separate from the project outputs above. Its characters and worlds are fictional; publication, debut and game releases have not been confirmed.
PRINCIPLES
Original editions, public-data Open APIs and official institutional materials. Our cultural and public-data projects start from traceable sources and are designed to let people check the evidence.
AI builds outlines, suggests indicators and writes drafts. People always make the final decision and give approval. Hanpyeon's episode approval, CRPI's disaster indicator confirmation and Onseo and Daseol's fact and rights reviews are all designed this way.
We don't replicate characters. Each connection formed through reading and responding brings a story to life anew. We always make clear that it is a fictional creation.
STUDIO
Project V is an independent studio led by AI researcher Mintai Kim. His research spans audio signal processing, speech recognition, time-series forecasting and LLM applications. He has published four SCI(E) papers, three as first author, and participated in six national R&D projects. The studio began with a goal: turning research into services that work in practice.
CONTACT
Collaboration, field trials, speaking invitations and recruitment inquiries are welcome.
mintai@project-v.org