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Moon Charn

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He studied industrial design at the Department of Industrial Arts at Seoul National University and continued his industrial design studies in the graduate program there. He then earned an MFA in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and worked at Daewoo Electronics. Beginning in 2005, he taught product design at the College of Arts at Hansung University. Currently, he is researching creative design concepts with engineering students in the Department of Smart Management Engineering at the IT Engineering College of Hansung University.

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Yamazaki Ryo

CEO of studio-L, Social entrepreneur, Community Designer, Professor and Director of the department of Spatial Design in the Kyoto University of Art and Design, Vice President in RIPS, NPO. Born in Aichi, in 1973. After the university, he worked in SEN, inc., where he developed his skills and knowledge in landscape design advised by Mr. Shosuke Miyake, a founder of this firm. As well, he learnt social organization and relationship management from Dr. Fusayo Asano there. Then he founded studio-L …
Youngwon Park

He majored in Visual Design at Hongik University and went on to study Advertising Design and Visual Communication at the Graduate School of Industrial Arts at Hongik University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). While studying signage and symbols at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he explored a semiotic approach to design research. He later earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Hongik University, where he analyzed visual humor through semiotics. He has contributed to the …
Lee Young-choon

He graduated from Hongik University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Wooden Furniture, and majored in Industrial Design at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He has worked as a senior designer at Spoon Design, an adjunct professor at the Department of Industrial Design at Rochester Institute of Technology, a commissioned researcher at the Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP), and is currently a professor at the Department of Living Furniture Design at Seoil University.
Lee Yong-je

Lee Yong-je studied visual design at Hongik University and was the first designer to receive a PhD in Hangul design from the same graduate school. He worked at the Hangeul Design Institute from 1999-2003, and since 2004, he has been running ‘Hangeul Space’, a space for research and design. He has designed numerous fonts, including ‘꽃길’, a font for vertical writing, and ‘아리따’, a typeface for Amorepacific. Recently, he has been focusing on ‘ink-saving …
Kang Sung-joong

After graduating from Hanyang University with a degree in precision mechanical engineering, he worked as an engineer at Ssangyong Engineering before graduating from Seoul National University with a degree in industrial design. He then completed a master’s degree in industrial design at Seoul National University, a master’s degree in interaction design at Carnegie Mellon University, and a doctorate in design at Seoul National University. He has trained designers at Hanyang University …
Yang Da-sol

She is a writer, a vegan advocate, and the host of the writing community Kkabul Writing Room . She has authored books such as A Heart That Doesn’t Become Poor , Anyway, Friends , and A Proper Courtesy .
Chung Dah-young

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 …
Park Hyun-taek

Majored in visual design at Hongik University and lectured at several universities before coming across the National Museum of Korea, where work has continued for over twenty years. While working in the fields of ‘museums,’ ‘design,’ and ‘culture,’ doubts arose about the fact that design was being absorbed only in external decoration. Reevaluating design led to confronting the question of ‘why and for whom to design,’ rather than ‘how to design.’ This process led to the realization that design …
Kuma Kengo

Born in Yokohama in 1954, he studied architecture at the University of Tokyo and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Department of Architecture and Urban Planning in the United States. He is currently a principal of Kengo Kuma and Associates and a special professor and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. His major works include Kiro-San observatory (1994), Water/Glass, Atami, Noh Stage in the Forest /Moributai Traditional Performing Arts Museum, Bato Hiroshige …
Akasegawa Genpei

Akasegawa Genpei was a pseudonym of Japanese artist Akasegawa Katsuhiko (赤瀬川克彦), born March 27, 1937 in Yokohama. He used another pseudonym, Otsuji Katsuhiko (尾辻克彦), for literary works. A member of the influential artist groups Neo-Dada Organizers and Hi-Red Center, Akasegawa went on to maintain a multi-disciplinary practice throughout his career as an individual artist. In 1986, Akasegawa and his collaborators, Terunobu Fujimori and Shinbo Minami, to announce the formation of a new group: …
ArchiWorkshop

We are Architects, who think, create, enjoy and share everyday Architecture. The title ‘ArchiWorkshop’ has two meanings. One is ‘workshop of artisans’, and the other is the meaning of ‘attacking and defending to each other through discussion’. From a result perspective of view, architecture is a visual work. But at the same time, its origin accompanies philosophy and rational thinking. For that reason, we discuss and converse as much as sketching and this …
Jeon Jeong-heui

Graduated with a degree in Architectural Engineering from Chungnam National University and earned a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). After completing the publishing translation program at Geulbab Academy, she now works as a translator with Bareun Translation.

Moon Charn

문찬

Yamazaki Ryo

Youngwon Park

Lee Young-choon

Lee Yong-je

Kang Sung-joong

Yang Da-sol

Chung Dah-young

Park Hyun-taek

Kuma Kengo

Akasegawa Genpei

ArchiWorkshop

Jeon Jeong-heui