Meet IWBFD Studios
New For The Olds, Life For Death
We were all born for death. So we give it everything, make our stories real, and leave a better world for the generations to come. Death is not the end — it is where all generations coexist, and how we live forever.
Founder's sttory:
We turn this belief into work. IWBFD Storytelling Studios makes stories about every kind of ending — and then does the work those stories demand. Storytelling, and story-doing.
Our stories happen in cities, and through the connections between them. The city is our stage, and everyone who lives there is our crew and our cast.
On that stage, work and business unfold, events come alive, dreams become real — and everyone gets that chance. That is the scene we create.
We work not only with those full of life and momentum, but with those who are ending something: retiring performers, closing businesses, disappearing towns, people standing at a threshold. Their ending is our raw material, and their new beginning is our finished work.
And wherever our stories become real, we are already preparing the next stage — where the generations that have passed, the ones here now, and the ones to come meet in a single story.
Manefesto
We were all born for death.
But this sentence is not about an ending. It is about the beginning. And it is about the resurrection of everything we believed had died.
We are all different. Different faces, different cities, different languages, different stories.
Yet the same thing flows through us all: hot blood, sweat, and tears.
The red blood is what is seen, and the unseen within it is what keeps us alive. The seen and the unseen, gathered in one place — that is our world.
And so we are all friends, and brothers.
Because we were born for death, we are free.
Because the end is certain, we must do what we long to do, without regret.
To prove that death is not the end, we have so much to leave behind — for those we love, for the generations to come.
That is how we make this world better, and it is each person's own methodology for living a life that is not in vain.
And when those methodologies gather, they become a community, and that spirit will light up our future.
Every ending is a death. And every death is a new beginning.
Death may be the end of the body, but it can also mean the end of anything.
Resignation, retirement, dismissal, divorce, parting, the moment we decide to stop on our own — what all these endings create is a new beginning.
We die and rise again, always. We die, and we rise again. This repetition has been our engine of creation and innovation, one that never stops.
This runs through cities, through people, through companies, and through everything that exists in this world.
IWBFD Storytelling Studios is where we rebuild the world through story. We make the story (storytelling), and we actually do the work the story demands (story-doing).
For those who do not fear the end, who never stop being reborn — we are their studio.
New For The Olds. Life For Death.
Love Never Fails,
Paul J. J. Kang