President of KT. In 2004, during his tenure as Vice President of Marketing at KTF, he played a pivotal role in introducing service design into corporate management and marketing activities in Korea. Drawing on his extensive experience as a corporate leader, he applied service design to KT’s innovations, leading to the creation of iconic branding campaigns such as Have a good time (2005), SHOW (2007), QOOK (2009), and the groundbreaking exclamation olleh (2010). These efforts marked a significant milestone in the development of design in Korea. His contributions to the innovative growth of the domestic telecommunications market earned him prestigious accolades, including the Korea Industrial Service Medal and the Presidential Commendation. A Ph.D. in engineering, he has held key roles across technology development, marketing, and management, culminating in his appointment as KT’s president after 25 years with the company. He actively engages with nearly 65,000 followers on X (@hmpyo), embodying a forward-thinking and dynamic leadership style. He is also the author of The Era of Service Design.
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Pyo Hyun-myung
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After studying Industrial Design and International Business at Carnegie Mellon University, she worked as a product designer, participating in projects for medical devices and various consumer electronics. She later earned a master’s degree in Design and Branding Strategy from Brunel University. Recently, her focus has shifted to research on platform strategy and service design.
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Kristel van Ael
Kristel Van Ael is a business partner at Namahn, a humanity-centred design agency based in Brussels. She is the lead author of the Service Design (servicedesigntoolkit.org) and Systemic Design (systemicdesigntoolkit.org) toolkits. Kristel is also co-teacher in product-service-system design and lead teacher in systemic design at the University of Antwerp (Faculty of Design Sciences). -
Kim Sun-hee
She graduated from Hongik University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Industrial Design and received his MFA from Pratt Institute Graduate School of Industrial Design. Since 1995, she has been a keynote professor at Samsung Art and Design Institute (SADI), and since 1999, she has been a research professor at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute’s Department of Industrial Design in New York City. Currently, she teaches three-dimensional sculpture at Parsons School of … -
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정혜선, 권민성이 공동으로 운영하는 장황 디자인 스튜디오이다. 이름 SOKO는 Something of Korea의 준말로, 한국 장황이 도달할 수 있는 미지의 가능성을 의미한다. 디자인, 교육, 출판 등 다양한 활동과 장황을 접목하여 전통과 현대를 잇는 새로운 지평을 열고자 한다. -
Géraldine Borio
Dr Géraldine Borio is the founder of Borio Lab and an Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture. Dr Borio is a Swiss-registered architect who holds a PhD in architecture from RMIT, Australia, as well as a master’s degree in architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Invested widely in knowledge transmission through teaching, research and publication, Dr Borio has conducted numerous workshops and lectures worldwide. Prior … -
Yu Hye-young
She graduated from Sookmyung Women’s University in 1994 with a degree in Industrial Design and completed her MFA at Elisaba Design School in 2000. He has exhibited at Sol Ferino , Seoul Design Festival Milan (Milan, 2007), Seoul Design Olympics, Design is Air (Seoul, 2008), Spanish Kitchen at Samji Gallery, Insadong (Seoul, 2009), and Casas Marcs Illustration Group (Barcelona, 2010). Since 2003, he has been a design exhibition commissioner and curator, organizing various exhibitions, and … -
John Hill
John Hill is an architect, freelance writer and editor, and published author. He grew up in Chicago, went to architecture school in Kansas, and then moved to New York City after working at an architecture firm in Chicago for ten years. Since the move to NYC in 2006 he has written seven books on architecture. The latest, Buildings in Print , surveys 100 seminal architecture books published since Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture . -
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Jakob Schneider
Jakob Schneider is partner and creative director at KD1 design agency, co-founder of More than Metrics and Smaply, designer and editor of This is Service Design Doing and This is Service Design Thinking. -
Youngjoo Park
She earned her master’s degree in Visual Communication Design from the Department of Visual Design at Hongik University and the Graduate School of Art and Design at the University of Tsukuba. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Human Environmental Design at the Graduate School of Natural Science at Chiba University. She is a member of the Korea Package Design Association, VIDAK (Visual Information Design Association of Korea), and the Korean Society of Basic Design & Art. Her research … -
Kim Nan-Ju
Graduated from Kyung Hee University’s Department of Korean Language and Literature, and received a master’s degree in modern Japanese literature from Showa Women’s University in Japan. Currently working as a translator specializing in Japanese literature. Books she has translated include Between Coolness and Passion: Rosso , Kitchen , The Doctor’s Beloved Formulas , The Tale of Genji , I Am a Cat , Voyage Through Stars , The Newcomer , etc. -
Kwanjo
Born in 1943, he attained enlightenment at Beomeosa Temple in Busan in 1960 and passed away in 2006. Since the 1970s, he has been widely capturing Korean temples and nature in his photographs. He has held numerous solo exhibitions, including the Seoul Asian Games Celebration Photo Exhibition and Olympic Celebration Exhibition , as well as overseas exhibitions in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Chicago. His collections of works include Sangha 1–2, Nirvana , Sumidan , Main Buddha Hall , Life, Death, …