Graduated with a primary major in English Education from Korea University. After completing military service and returning to school, he explored new fields and entered the world of design. Discovering an unexpected aptitude for it, he pursued Industrial Information Design as a second major and went on to earn a master’s degree from the same university. Currently, he runs the design company YOUNGLAB, participating in design projects for startups, SMEs, and large corporations domestically and internationally. He also creates content that integrates design and technology, such as smart lamps and figures. Recently, he has been actively involved as a mentor in various creative programs run by institutions like the Korea Creative Content Agency and Jeonbuk Content Korea Lab, supporting creative endeavors and startups. As a designer, creator, and supporter of aspiring designers, all of his activities converge on the core of design. With this in mind, he continues to dedicate himself to design every day.
Authors
Jang Yeong-jin
장영진
다른 사람들
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Suwa is a renowned live art illustrator based in Seoul. She became captivated by fashion’s ability to reflect diverse individuality and identity during her trips to Fashion Weeks around the world, leading her to start drawing people who caught her eye on the streets. Suwa studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design in New York and worked as a designer for several fashion brands including Michael Kors and Tommy Hilfiger. She later transitioned to illustration, collaborating on editorial …
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Jang Hun-gyo
A full-time researcher at the Research Center for Common Resources and Sustainable Society at Jeju National University. She dreams of running a small research institute under the name Democracy for All. She is the author of The Miryang War: A Radical Democracy Project Based on Common Resources and is currently working on her next book. -
Hwang Seong-won
A translator and reproductive laborer, she values the quiet hours spent crafting necessary items with her hands as much as the time spent reading and reflecting. In spring, she sows seeds and learns from the subtle changes in the environment that often escape human perception. Her translated works include The Man Who Became a Goat , The Climate Casino , The Dispossessed , Living Alone , and The Happiness Industry . -
Chung Hye-uk
Studied Visual Communication Design in the Department of Industrial Design at the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University. Earned a master’s degree in New Media Design from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Ph.D. in Visual Communication from the Graduate School of Communication at Yonsei University. Currently, she serves as a professor at the Content School of Cheonggang University of Culture and Industry. -
National Museum of Korea
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 … -
Choi Dae-suk
Graduated with a BFA from the College of Fine Arts at Hongik University, an MFA in Industrial Design from Seoul National University, and an MBA in Marketing from Yonsei University. Guided by the belief that “a successful designer must balance theory (文) and practice (武),” he is dedicated to professional design education while contributing to the field as a recommended designer and jury member for the Korea Industrial Design Exhibition. His primary interests include new product … -
Renate Raecke
Renate Raecke was born in 1943 in Lübeck, Germany. A German children’s book author and children’s literature critic. She studied literature and art history before working for various publishers and book shops. She has served as president and vice president of the German chapter of IBBY and is currently a member of the European chapter of IBBY. She has been a jury member for the BIB, Illustrator of the Year at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Deutscher … -
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 … -
Kwon Jin
Kwon Jin is a contemporary art researcher and curator and currently works as the project director of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). He has been at the SeMA since 2016 after working at ARKO Art Center and the 4th Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), where he curated Ahn Sang-soo’s solo exhibition Nalgae.pati (2017), Latin American Contemporary Art Exhibition Work for the Future Past (2017–2018), Middle Eastern Contemporary Art Exhibition gohyang: home … -
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 … -
Lee Jung-min
Lee Jung-min graduated from Ewha Womans University, Faculty of Design and received her master’s degree from the Graduate School of Industrial Design with the thesis Strategies for Legal Protection of Service Design . Since 2013, she has been working as a researcher at the Korean Intellectual Property Office. -
Lee Kyun-gmin
He studied Visual Communication Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was selected as a Next Generation Design Leader by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (now Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy) and Korea Design Promotion Agency, and has been honored with the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), iF International Forum Design, UX Design Award, and Red Dot Design Award. He currently works as a UX designer at LG Electronics. At first, I became a UX designer by …