Interview with Ha1kwang, AI Content Creator on YouTube
Can you give us a brief introduction about yourself? I’m Choi Ho-jin, a copywriter from Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. I also go by my YouTube handle, Ha1kwang (pronounced “Hah-Il-Kwang”), which is short for “an ordinary man creating a commercial film
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