Robey in Seoul
Illustrated notebook editions where a small robot notices Seoul one scene at a time.
French writing house in Seoul
Studio Monjo
A small house for notebooks, letters, and workshops, made around one idea: writing by hand still changes the way a thought arrives.
From fast machines to slower pages.
Studio Monjo is run in Seoul by Jordan Monnet, a French founder who has spent more than fifteen years building and investing in technology companies across Europe and Asia.
After years close to artificial intelligence, speed, and screens, the studio began from a simple counterweight: paper, thread, ink, and the slower act of making a mark by hand.
The notebooks are not nostalgia. They are tools for the part of thinking that still works better when the hand has time to catch up.
The house has several rooms.
Studio Monjo is the house. Writing by hand is the center. Robey, Monjo Line, Courrier de Seoul, and the workshops are different rooms inside that same world.
Monjo Line
Quiet black-thread notebooks for work notes, planning, reading, and fountain pens.
Courrier and workshops
Letters sent from Seoul, and small table sessions where people make one notebook by hand.
One paper, many threads.
The notebooks share a writing-first paper system: FSC certified, ECF, acid-free, and tested with fountain pens. The difference between lines is not quality, but use and story.
Thread gives each notebook its quiet code. Red, orange, navy, or black: a small visible trace of how the object was assembled.
The red Studio Monjo seal is the constant mark. It says the object passed through the same small bench in Seoul before it reached another hand.