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Kim Joo-yun

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He studied architecture at Hongik University and interior design at Cornell Graduate School, U.S.A. He is the dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Art at Hongik University and a professor at the College of Art and Architecture since 1996. He was the general director of the IFI World Interior Design Competition in 2007, a board member of the IFI World Federation of Interior Architecture from 2007–2011, president of the Korean Society of Interior Designers (KOSID) in 2011–2012, and president of the Korean Institute of Spatial Design (KISD) in 2017-2018. He received the 2006 Minister of Construction and Transportation Award and the 2015 Prime Minister’s Award at the Korea Design Awards for his KT Art Hall design. He is currently a guest lecturer at design competitions at leading universities in China, India, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates, including Singapore Design Week (SDW).

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Kim Yeong-seon

She graduated from the Department of Creative Writing at Chung-Ang University and completed coursework in Aesthetics at Hongik University Graduate School. After working as a publishing editor and caregiver, she is currently active as a professional translator. Her translated works include The Death of Truth , Churchill’s Black Dog, Kafka’s Mice , Automating Inequality , Capital Without Borders , To the Letter , The Art of Forgetting and “Why Heidegger Should Not Be …
Noh Eun-yu

Font designer and researcher. She founded Notype in 2018 and has been creating letters based on research and experimentation since then. She teaches typography at Konkuk University, Ewha Womans University, and Hongik University. She graduated from Hongik University’s Department of Visual Design in 2006, and received her master’s degree in 2008 with a thesis on “A study on the Hangul phonetic alphabet system for phonetic transcription of Japanese” and her doctorate in 2011 with a …
Yang Ok-kum

Yang Ok-kum studied Performance Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art in the UK, completed an MA in Art and Space (Curating) at Kingston University Graduate School, and completed a certificate program in Museum Studies at Harvard University. She began her career as an intern at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, where she worked as a curator at Gallery SSamji, the Dean of Academic Affairs at Hansol Cultural Foundation (now Museum SAN), and Chief Curator at Hyundai Card, and is …
Jeong Yeong-seon

CEO of Seoahn Total Landscape Architecture Co., Ltd. and an adjunct professor at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Seoul National University. His notable works include the landscape design for the Won Dharma Center of Won Buddhism in the United States and the basic and detailed designs for the Amorepacific Technology Research Institute. She has received numerous awards for his projects, including the Environmental Culture Award (1998) for the traditional garden Heewon at the Ho-Am …
Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French speaking Swiss parents, and acquired French nationality by naturalization on 19 September 1930. His career spanned five decades, in which he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, as well as North and South America. He considered that “the roots of …
Doi Akifumi

Born in Hiroshima in 1957. Owner of Tom’s Box. Handles picture books and books related to picture books. He has been involved in the planning and editing of over 300 picture books to date, including the Forest of Images series (Holp Shuppan) and Neko no Sweater (Oikawa Kenji, Takeuchi Mayuko). He also organizes the workshop Atosaki Juku with Akira Ono, which aims to nurture picture book authors.
Hwang Su-hyun

A journalist for The Hankook Ilbo , she majored in Clothing and Textiles at Hanyang University. Her career spans magazines and weekly publications before transitioning to a daily newspaper, where she has been working as a journalist for a decade. Her reporting began with fashion and has since expanded to cover architecture, art, food, design, publishing, and pop culture. In 2014, she wrote the serialized feature Living in Small Houses , introducing compact homes across Korea. With a natural …
Gwangju Design Center

Gwangju Design Center was established to lead the advancement of the design industry to enhance the competitiveness of local industries and drive regional economic development. Since 2014, it has organized the Gwangju Design Biennale. In 2020, the organization changed its name to Gwangju Institute of Design Promotion (GIDP).
Park Su-ji

An independent curator, operating the curatorial agency RARY and co-managing the curator platform WESS . Previously, they have worked as a curator at the independent cultural space Agit in Busan, editorial team leader for the art and culture criticism magazine BIART , coordinator for Jeju Biennale 2017: Tourism , curator at Tongui-dong Boan Inn , and associate curator for the 2024 Busan Biennale: Seeing in the Dark . Their work revolves around questioning how the fundamental nature of art …
Im Nam-sook

Graduated from the Department of Ceramics at Ewha Womans University. She majored in Graphic Design at Braunschweig University of Art (Braunschweig Kunsthochschule) in Germany and earned a Ph.D. in Design Philosophy from the same institution. Currently, she is a professor in the Department of Art Education at Daegu National University of Education.
Kim Hyun

He is the CEO of Design Park, an invited artist at the Korea Design Exhibition, and a stamp reviewer at the Korea Postal Service, Ministry of Knowledge Economy. He graduated from Chung-Ang University and Konkuk University Graduate School of Education. After working as an art director in the design department of a large company, he opened his own office, Design Park, and has worked on over 400 corporate design projects, starting with the 1988 Seoul Olympics mascot, Hodol. From the cards in …
Yeongchun Park

He studied Ceramic Engineering at Yonsei University and Industrial Design at the University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art) in the United States. He holds an MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies. He worked as a senior designer at the New York-based design firm IDI (Innovations and Development Inc.) and as a design director at Deskey Associates. He also served as a professor …

Kim Joo-yun

김주연

Kim Yeong-seon

Noh Eun-yu

Yang Ok-kum

Jeong Yeong-seon

Le Corbusier

Doi Akifumi

Hwang Su-hyun

Gwangju Design Center

Park Su-ji

Im Nam-sook

Kim Hyun

Yeongchun Park