Yang Ok-kum studied Performance Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art in the UK, completed an MA in Art and Space (Curating) at Kingston University Graduate School, and completed a certificate program in Museum Studies at Harvard University. She began her career as an intern at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, where she worked as a curator at Gallery SSamji, the Dean of Academic Affairs at Hansol Cultural Foundation (now Museum SAN), and Chief Curator at Hyundai Card, and is currently at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. His major exhibitions include Bauhaus Stage Experiments: Man, Space, and Machine (co-curated), Hwang Kyu-baek - Visible and Invisible, and Richard Hamilton: Continuous Obsession.