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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Chung Dah-young
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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 …
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Kang Byung-keun
Byoung-Keun Kang is the City Architect of Seoul and an Emeritus Professor at Konkuk University. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Architectural Engineering from Konkuk University in Korea and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Architecture. His major projects include the comprehensive master plan for the cultural facilities at Oedo Island in Hallyeohaesang National Park, the French Cultural Village in Gapyeong (Petite France), and the … -
An Byeong-hak
With a keen interest in the relationship between text and image, he explores the boundaries where design and its adjacent fields intersect, grounded in typographic principles. He was a member of the visual culture experimental group Jindalrae and held solo exhibitions such as Arrangement of Fragments or a Spectacle (2014) and Juxtaposition (2013). He served as the general director for the 5th Typojanchi: Body and Typography (2016-2017), the 1st Public Design Festival Thematic Exhibition: … -
Yoo Yoon-seok
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Omagari Toshi
Toshi Omagari is a font designer at Monotype in the UK. He studied typography and font design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 2008. Arcade Game Typography is his first book. -
Richard Harris
Born in Toronto, Canada in 1974. After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at McGill University in 1996, he moved to South Korea, where he lived for 10 years. He continued to live overseas for two more years—in Spain, Australia, and South Africa—before returning to Canada in 2009. Today, he lives and works in Toronto. A Father’s Son (2013) is his first novel. He is also the author of two nonfiction books, Roadmap to Korean (2003) and Faces of Korea (2004), a novella, and a … -
Andrew Haslam
Following an undergraduate degree in Graphic Information Design and a postgraduate teaching qualification, he completed a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art. He worked for the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Netherlands Broadcasting Service) and later for Sebastian Conran Associates before co-founding a studio in East London with Russel Warren-Fisher and Hannah Tofts. He authored and designed a series of 32 non-fiction children’s books covering science, history, and geography, which … -
Choi Bum
Design critic. Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design and the Department of Aesthetics at Hongik University. Served as the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Design and as the editor of the design criticism journal Design Critique . Focused on critically analyzing Korean society and culture through the lens of design. Authored several books, including: A View on Korean Design , Where is Korean Design Heading? , Korean Design: Beyond the Myth , If I Had Read That Book in Those … -
Peter Troxler
An independent researcher and concept developer, he focuses on the overall composition and design of the social, technological, and commercial dimensions of businesses. His work pays particular attention to companies as permanent organizations and projects as temporary organizational structures. -
Gilda Williams
Based in London since 1994, Dr. Gilda Williams is a contemporary art critic and teacher; editor of ON&BY Andy Warhol (MIT/Whitechapel Press, 2016); and author of the bestselling art book How to Write about Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, 2014), now published in seven languages. From 2008-23 Williams was Senior Lecturer on the MFA Curating programme at Goldsmiths College (University of London), where she taught art writing. Dr. Williams has also taught at the The Ruskin School of Art, … -
Tak Hyeon-gyu
Graduated from the Department of History at Sogang University and earned a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate School of Korean Studies at the Academy of Korean Studies. Authored books include: Saimdang’s Garden , Conversations on Paintings , Reflections on Korean Paintings , A Study of the Triad Buddhist Paintings in the Joseon Dynasty . Currently serves as a researcher at the Kansong Art Museum and lectures at institutions including Seoul National University of Education, Gyeongin … -
Lee Jung-kuk
Lee Jung-kuk graduated from Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Education, and attended the Emerson College Waldorf Teacher Training Program and the Visual Arts Program in the UK.