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 Prehistory of Korean Graphic Design”, “Kyo–Man Kim and Korean Graphic Design”, “The Roles and Influence of Cho Young-jae in the 1988 Seoul Olympics”, and “The Influence of Ahn Sangsoo on the Korean Graphic Design Cultural Ecosystem”.