A leading authority in design management, he has served as the President of the Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP) and the Chief of Design Seoul Headquarters for the Seoul Metropolitan Government. He studied Industrial Design at Seoul National University and its graduate school, earned a Master’s degree in Industrial Design from Syracuse University in the United States, and a Ph.D. in Design Strategy from Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. He debuted as a designer after receiving the President’s Award from the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the 1973 Korea Industrial Design Exhibition and was recognized as a recommended designer in 1976. In 1984, he joined KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) as a professor, where he led the establishment of the Department of Industrial Design and has since been committed to nurturing future talent. He has served as a design management advisor and outside director for leading Korean companies, including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Hyundai Card, Homeplus, and Lotte Construction. From 1995 to 1999, he was a member of the executive board of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) and developed strategies for globalizing the design industry for Korea’s Globalization Promotion Committee in 1996. As the first designer to be appointed as President of KIDP in 2000, he spearheaded the construction of the Korea Design Center and successfully hosted international events such as the World Graphic Design Biennale and the World Industrial Design Conference. For his contributions, he received the Presidential Citation in 1999 and the Silver Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit in 2003. His publications include Design Management, a Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism-recommended book and a must-read in the field, as well as Chung Kyongwon’s Design Management Stories, Design, Brands, and Competitiveness, and Global Design Travels. His work Design Strategy at Samsung Electronics, published by Harvard Business Publishing in 2008, became a bestseller. With numerous articles published in global design journals such as the Design Management Journal, he combines solid theoretical knowledge and extensive practical experience. For over 30 years, he has contemplated how design transforms lives and fosters innovation, drawing insights from both academia and practice.
Authors
Chung Kyung-won
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Editorial director of VOSTOK magazine and head of VOSTOK PRESS. He is the editor of various publications and the director of PLATFORM-P. He has worked as the chief editor of the design journal Yanggwibi , editor-in-chief of the Seoul National University Press and Culture Center, and a member of the planning committee of the School of Photographic Theory and the bimonthly magazine Wordnbow , and received the Art in Culture New Vision Art Criticism Award.
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Lim Taehee
After completing a research program in Architecture at Kyoto University, he returned to South Korea and gained six years of practical experience in the field. He later went back to Japan and earned a Ph.D. in Architecture from Kyoto Institute of Technology. Currently, he runs Im Taehee Design Studio, continuing to work on various projects. -
Armin Hofmann
Armin Hofmann was a Swiss graphic designer. He was one of the most prominent individuals in Swiss design. He began his career in 1947 as a teacher at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel School of Art and Crafts at the age of twenty-six. Hofmann followed Emil Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel (Basel School of Design) and was instrumental in developing the graphic design style known as the Swiss Style. His teaching methods were unorthodox and broad … -
Kang Hyeon-joo
He studied visual design at Seoul National University and Konstfack, Sweden, and worked at Allcommunication, a CI company. He is currently a professor at Inha University’s Department of Design Convergence. His books include Studies in the History of Design and Handbook of Korean Design History: Interviewing Korea’s Paul Rand, Cho Young-Jae , and his articles include “Correlation between Generation Shift and Corporate Design”, “The Characteristics and Meaning of Hong-Taik Han’s Design : The … -
Kim Dae-kwon
He started his career as a font engineer with the first project, “Malgun Gothic”, the first Korean hinting font for UI. He developed various plugins for font editors and gave many technical lectures. He enjoys various collaborations and conversations with font designers. He is currently in charge of mobile font download service at Font Bank and operates Line Gap. -
Jeon Eun-kyung
A design journalist, design advisor for grandeclip, and director of C , a magazine focused on iconic chairs. From 2006 to 2022, she worked as a reporter, editor-in-chief, and director at the magazine Monthly Design , overseeing over 200 issues. During this time, she conducted interviews with designers, executives, and marketers from around the world and curated content on projects, exhibitions, spaces, and trends across various design fields. She launched Work Design and authored publications … -
Yoon Je-won
Yoon Je-won majored in geography education and aesthetics at Seoul National University and graduated from the Gumbap Academy. She was very interested in performing arts, art, and video, which she was exposed to in college, and was active in performance festivals and film festivals. She pursues natural translation by utilizing her long experience in video translation and is interested in various fields such as education, cooking, philosophy, art, and foreign languages, and strives to convey … -
Sim So-mi
Sim So-mi is an independent curator based in Seoul and Paris, interested in exploring the relationship between urban space and artistic practice through exhibitions, public projects, and research, and reproducing it in curatorial discourse. She received the Young Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism in 2021, the Hyundai Blue Prize Design 2021, and the Lee Dong Seok Award for Exhibition Planning 2018. She is a member of the editorial board of the cultural research … -
Lee Ji-eun
Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at Hansung University in 1992 and completed a master’s program at the same university in 1997. In 2003, he graduated from the Visual Communication Design program at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and in 2006, completed the doctoral coursework at the Graduate School of International Information and Communication at Waseda University. In 2012, he earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies … -
Kim Jong-kyun
Kim Jong-kyun graduated from Seoul National University with an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design and earned his doctor’s degree in Design from the same institution. He currently serves as an Administrative Officer at the Korean Intellectual Property Office. He is the author of several books, including Design in Korea and Design Wars , and has co-authored many others. Kim has published numerous papers on the history of Korean design, branding, and design intellectual property rights, and … -
Kashiwagi Hiroshi
Design critic. Professor Emeritus at Musashino Art University and Honorary Fellow at the Royal College of Art. Born in Kobe in 1946. Graduated from Musashino Art University. After working as an editor, became an associate professor at Tokyo Zōkei University in 1983. Started at his current position in 1996. His works include Design no 20 seiki (The 20th Century of Design) (NHK Shuppan, 1992), Housework no seiji gaku (The Politics of Housework) (Seidosha, 1995), and Nichijitsu no bunka shi (The … -
Lee Soo-kyung
Lee Soo-kyung is an assistant professor at Ewha Womans University’s Hawkman College of Liberal Arts. She teaches Liberal Arts English and American Ethnic and Cultural Fiction.