Finishing the call - his Kourean relaxed and sounding like he was joking with the person on the other end - he picked up a small remote and pressed a button that made blinds on the glass wall slide shut, making the room slightly dark. That done, he pulled out a laptop that looked like it was made from two different systems melted together and set it on his desk.

"It keeps the kids happy," he said, shrugging a little. Yoon-sung flipped open the laptop and pulled out a heavy duty chord to snap into a port on its side, tapping a couple keys and letting it warm up.

"Do you know how weird this is, you letting me hack your brain?"