She graduated from Seoul National University’s College of Arts and Humanities with a B.A. in English Literature and received her M.A. in Fine Arts from the same graduate school. She earned an MA in art history from the University of Chicago and a PhD in art history from the University of Iowa. She is currently a professor in the Department of Art at Kookmin University College of Art. She is the author of Korean Abstract Painting: A Formation of Korean Avant-Garde (2013), The Vestige of …

Kim Se-jin is an architectural practice founded in 2015 after graduating from Seoul National University’s Department of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture. His architectural work begins with the surface of paper and evolves into profound expressions of individuality and universal sensory experience. He served as a Seoul Public Architect in 2016 and has taught at Seoul National University’s design studio. Her accolades include winning the design competition for the Chebu-dong …

Rhi Joo-myung studied industrial design at Seoul National University and design management at Leicester Polytechnic in the UK. He joined LG Electronics when it was called Geumsung and gained practical experience in planning and product design for over 9 years. He taught product design, design methods, and design management at Inje University and now at Yonsei University Wonju Campus. He has long been interested in the qualitative nature of design and hopes to better understand the …

He studied architecture at Hongik University and interior design at Cornell Graduate School, U.S.A. He is the dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Art at Hongik University and a professor at the College of Art and Architecture since 1996. He was the general director of the IFI World Interior Design Competition in 2007, a board member of the IFI World Federation of Interior Architecture from 2007–2011, president of the Korean Society of Interior Designers (KOSID) in 2011–2012, and president …

Fleur Watson PhD is a curator, creative producer and author. Her academic and cultural leadership extends across a broad spectrum of creative disciplines including architecture, design, visual art, and expanded spatial practices. Fleur is an Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Design at RMIT University and founder of independent curatorial practice Something Together. She is an experienced researcher within an ‘integrated scholarship’ framework with a focus on curating …

Ahn Young-joo graduated from Hongik University, Department of Art, and received her doctorate from the same university with a thesis titled “Critical Discourse on Vernacular Design and Political Possibilities.” She has lectured on various design cultural theories such as design and material culture, design history, and craft theory at Hongik University and Konkuk University, and is currently an adjunct professor at Konkuk University’s Department of Industrial Design. Her publications include …

Studied Visual Design at the College of Design, Sangmyung University, and Communication Design at its Graduate School of Art and Design. Worked as a designer at companies such as Hong Design Co., Ltd., and has taught typography and editorial design courses at Sangmyung University, Hannam University, Kyonggi University, Chungbuk National University, and Pyeongtaek University. Actively engages in creative projects through organizations such as the Korean Society of Typography, the Korean Society …

She majored in Art Studies at Hongik University and, after completing the translation program at Geulbab Academy, has been working as a professional translator with Barun Translation. Her translated works include Starting a Designer Brand , Drawing Faces and Hands , Risk Judgment , Things Reunited with at Life’s End , Harsh Advice , The Road to Maui Island , One-Minute Negotiation Lesson , Chocolate Chocolate , Warren Buffett’s Great Legacy , Why Do Odd People Get Promoted at Companies? , A …

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 …

Ahn Hye-shin graduated from the Department of Information Design at Ewha Womans University and the Graduate School of Industrial Design at the same school, and received her PhD in Industrial Design from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Since 2013, he has been the head of the Public Design Foundation and an adjunct professor at the Department of Techno-product Design at Hanyang University.

He is a leading scholar of medieval heraldry and recognized as the first international expert in the field of color. Born in Paris in 1947, he studied at the Sorbonne and the École Nationale des Chartes. He began researching the history of color as an academic subject in 1968 and published his first paper on medieval color in 1977. In 1982, he was appointed Director of Studies in the History and Philology Section at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), where he taught for 28 years on …

Professor of Mechanical Systems Design at Seoul National University of Science and Technology. After joining LG Electronics in 2003, he worked in various mobile UX/UI development roles, serving as Group Head of Strategy and Planning at LG Electronics UI Development Center and Head of UX at SK Telecom UI Planning Team. In 2008, he led the UI development of SK Telecom’s smartphone OS with UI specialists such as Vinyl, DNA, and PXD, and since 2009, he has been working on various UX/UI …