07 / VISION · ECORIUM
I put down the computer
to overcome my family's illnesses
From computer engineer to ecological systems biologist. Twenty years from theory → verification technology → GRBM → more than 600 voluntary participants → an industry model.
In plain words
I was a computer engineer. But facing the intractable illnesses of myself, my parents and people close to me, I decided I had to understand life, not machines. That is how I entered the path of "ecological systems biology."
In 2010 I gave the first GRBM to my mother, who was at the edge of life with complications of cellular aging — and it became my first clinical success. That near-miraculous success was only the beginning. It went on to the lives of a teenager with autism, an elderly man after gastrectomy, a baby born with extremely low birth weight, an office worker suffering from metastatic terminal cancer, and a business leader with genetic damage from a severe COVID-19 variant.
I call myself an ecological utilitarian. If the Earth, humanity and natural ecosystems share one destiny, we must choose the path that brings the greatest recovery to the most lives.
A 20-year journey
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2005 · Decision
Began climate-response and eco-bio research after encountering the Kyoto Protocol
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2010 · First success
The first GRBM model; the first clinical success, for his mother
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2012 · Expansion
Visited Silicon Valley as a winning team of the "Superstar V" startup league
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2013–2018 · Validation
Social validation of low-salt and salt-free kimchi through patents, awards and tastings; process advancement
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2020 · Company
Founded ELAN VITAL BIO Co., Ltd.; systematized products and services
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2026 · Industry
Systematized 600+ observation records; pursuing a global strategic partnership
"The future of food must break
the boundary between food and medicine"
A conviction gained in 2012 while experiencing future food at a global IT company in Silicon Valley — strengthened by conversations with the chairman of a global company and a systems-biology scholar at the University of Oxford.
Read moreCloseProof of authority — recognition, invitations, collaborations and the developer's conviction
Recognition received by the developer
- Letter of appreciation from the National Assembly "Korean Food Day" promotion committee — raising the status of Korean food
- Commendations from the Administrator of the Small and Medium Business Administration (SME development) and the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (promoting Korean food)
- Letter of appreciation from the Korean Society of Clinical Integrative Medicine · plaque from the Natural Healing Tourism Forum under the Ministry of Culture (contribution to national development)
- Recognized by integrative medicine as a "Holon standard model"
- Verification through treating Crohn's patients at the request of the medical association, and verification research with the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
- Official invitations: the Presidential Office twice, the National Assembly once, the Constitutional Society once
- Presentations: Korea Food Security Forum, Microbiological Society, Korea–Japan Business Forum, Northeast Asia Culture Forum
- Broadcasts: NTD (US), CE (China), NHK (Japan), KBS, MBC, TBC, MBN and many press interviews
Exchanges that strengthened the research
My research was refined by Genome Project papers and researchers' lectures and conversations, by post-genome papers and exchanges, and by conversations with eminent scholars at climate-change forums — some of whom received Nobel Prizes a few years later. Exchanges with science and medicine at global food-tech events and microbiome societies have continued.
A record of collaboration
According to company records from the first-generation technology (lactobacilli low-salt kimchi), the company took part in developing a core ingredient for CHANEL's camellia cosmetics, collaborated with GC Green Cross on lactobacilli-based health functional foods, and Nestlé has shown interest in low-salt-kimchi-based baby food and liquid diets. Industrialization technology is complete, and full-scale investment is under way. Detailed records are at www.gimchi.biz.
I am certain of GRBM. I have told patients I would stake everything I have if anything went wrong. Now I want to grow that certainty into reproducible evidence — examining the original records, samples and methods together.
Wooyoung Nam · Developer's Appendix, "I am certain of GRBM"
Collaboration history is a record of cooperation and interest according to company records and does not imply endorsement by, or a current contract with, any of these companies.
PARTNERSHIP · INVESTMENT
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After signing an NDA you can review the materials, then verify the original records and the process in person during on-site due diligence in Uljin, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea.