Chung Dah-young is a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, specializing in architecture and design exhibitions and writing. She has curated significant exhibitions, including Diary of Drawings: Chong Ki-yong Architecture Archive (2013), Itami Jun: Sculpting the Wind (2014), Experiments of Architopia (2015), Paper and Concrete: Korean Modern Architecture Movements 1987–1997 (2017), Kim Chung-up: Dialogue (2018), The Olympic Effect: Korean Architecture and Design of the 80s and 90s (2020), and Young Architects 2023: Annotations for a Museum (2023). She has also contributed as a co-author and planner to books such as Pavilions: Filling Cities with Emotions (Hongsi, 2015) and Architecture, Exhibition, Curating (Mati, 2019). She served as a co-curator for the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) and was an adjunct professor in the Department of Industrial Design at Konkuk University (2019–2021).
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The National Museum of Korea is the flagship museum of Korean history and art in South Korea. Since its establishment in 1945, the museum has been committed to various studies and research activities in the fields of archaeology, history, and art, continuously developing a variety of exhibitions and education programs. It was relocated to Yongsan District, Seoul in 2005. On June 24, 2021, the National Museum of Korea opened a new branch inside Incheon International Airport. The museum has …
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Sohyun Park
She studied film theory at the Korea National University of Arts and Southeast Asian studies at the National University of Singapore. Her translated works include The Brown History of the World , Selling Poverty , and Beauty Is a Wound , among others. -
Kim Lee-hong
He is currently an assistant professor at Hongik University Graduate School of Architecture and Urbanism and a principal at Leehong Kim Architects. After graduating from Yonsei University’s School of Architecture and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), he practiced at Samwoo Architects and Steven Hall Architects for seven years. Since opening Leehong Kim Architects, he has been working on various projects between Korea and the United States. He participated in the … -
Gerrit Noordzij
Typographer, type designer, book designer, author, historian, and educator. Born in 1931 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he taught type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1960 to 1990. Over three decades, he transformed the academy into one of the world’s leading institutions for type design education. He has influenced the field profoundly, producing numerous students who have become prominent type designers in Europe and the United States, collectively known as the “Hague … -
Choi Jeong-su
Graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature at Yonsei University and its graduate school, currently working as a professional translator. Translated works include: Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist , The Zahir , Maktub , Guy de Maupassant’s The Horla , Guy de Maupassant—Boule de Suif and 62 Other Stories , Françoise Sagan’s One Month Later, One Year Later , A Certain Smile , Amazing Clouds , The Lost Side Profile , Annie Ernaux’s Simple Passion , Amos … -
kim Ju-gyeong
A lead researcher and type designer at AG Typography Institute , the designer has created typefaces such as AG Hunminjeongeum and AG Choteuktae Myeongjo . They have also directed, researched, and designed both AG original typefaces and custom corporate identity fonts, including Amorepacific’s “APHQ Hangul” , Projekt Produkt’s “PP Sans” , Hyundai Department Store’s “Happiness Sans” , and Jeju Air’s “Flight Sans.” -
Yang Ye-kyu
Graduated from Dongduk Women’s University College of Arts, Department of Visual Design and its graduate school, and completed the web design course at Fashion Institute Technology (F.I.T) in New York, USA. Worked as a designer at the advertising production team of Samhee Planning Co., Ltd., the predecessor of advertising agency Hancom Co., Ltd., and taught CI and computer graphics at Dongduk Women’s University Department of Visual Design. Currently working as the head of the design … -
Park Jaeyong
He is a writer, translator, and curator primarily based in Seoul, South Korea. A bibliophile, he founded and operates Seoul Reading Room (@seoulreadingroom), a contemporary art and theory library. He is also a frontman of the research band NHRB (@nhrb.space) alongside Heo Youngkyun, and co-runs the stand-up comedy group Seochon Comedy Club (@westvillagecomedyclub) with Jung Sung-eun and Kim Su-ji. His translated works include There Is No Last Revolution: Art and Political Imagination Since 1980 … -
Lee Dong-guk
Lee Dong-guk is a Korean calligraphy researcher, curator, and current director of the Gyeonggi-do Museum. He has been an academic researcher at the Calligraphy Museum at the Arts Center of Korea for 35 years and has published Myth, Song of Life - From Petroglyphs to Atheists (1999), Two Thousand Years of Korean Calligraphy (2000), Ose Chang’s Pavilion. Collection World (2001), Heavenly Life, Sky of Fertility (2012), Special Exhibition on the 10th Anniversary of the Passing of Galesun … -
Park Hey-kyung
She studied Western painting at Seoul National University College of Fine Arts and its graduate school. She received a master’s degree in interior design from Drexel University in the United States and a doctorate in architectural planning from Kyungpook National University’s Graduate School of Engineering. She is currently a professor at Inje University’s Department of Design. -
Kim Jee-hyun
She studied graphic design at Seoul National University’s Department of Applied Arts and Graduate School of Design, and received his master’s degree in typography from Eastern Michigan University, USA. She has been teaching design at Hansung University since 1991. She was a research professor at Syracuse University in the United States and the third president of the Korean Typography Society. She is currently serving as the chairman of the Future Planning Committee and editorial … -
Yang Da-sol
She is a writer, a vegan advocate, and the host of the writing community Kkabul Writing Room . She has authored books such as A Heart That Doesn’t Become Poor , Anyway, Friends , and A Proper Courtesy .