Mokja is the practice of Ae Jin Huys, who works between cooking, teaching and writing on Korean food culture in Ghent. The practice is deliberately plural: a kitchen studio for private dining, workshops on fermentation and seasonal cooking, take-out and pop-up formats, a consulting line for food professionals working between Belgium and Korea, and a growing body of cookbooks published with Lannoo. Studio Studio designed and developed the website as a single space in which all of those formats coexist, run by a single author and held together by a single architecture.
The site is built as one screen, with photography running full-width underneath and the navigation suspended along the top and bottom edges in a stack of short, hanging labels. The arrangement is drawn from the Korean shopping street, where shopfronts disappear behind a dense vertical signage suspended from the buildings, each sign naming one trade or one offer, all of them read at once by anyone walking past. Selecting one slides the corresponding layer in over the image, in the way an awning extends from a façade. A horizontal marquee passes through the centre of the screen at the same signage rhythm. The Korean and the Latin alphabet sit together where the content calls for it, following the editorial logic developed earlier for the cookbook Taste Korea, while the typography remains in a single weight throughout, holding quiet against the photography it shares the screen with.
