Born in Hwangju, Hwanghae-do, he graduated from Pyongyang Teachers’ College (平壤師範學校) at the age of 18 and briefly worked as an elementary school teacher. After the liberation of Korea, he moved south, worked as a houseboy for the U.S. military, and at 22, went to study in the United States. He graduated from Wesleyan College and Vanderbilt University and earned a master’s degree in Structural Engineering from Harvard University. Returning to Korea in 1954, he pursued a career in architecture while collecting dokkaebi tiles and minhwa (Korean folk paintings). As an architect, he designed notable buildings such as the main buildings of Kyungpook National University in Daegu, Keimyung University, Dongsan Hospital, and the Sejong University Museum. His Habib House, built in the style of a traditional Korean hanok, is the only U.S. ambassador’s residence worldwide constructed in the host country’s architectural style, and it is highly regarded for its beauty. His published works include The Beauty of Korean Folk Painting, The Art of Calligraphy and Painting, and The Arts of Korea and Japan. He also authored English works such as Humour of the Korean Tiger and Spirit of the Korean Tiger, as well as Japanese titles like The Beauty of the Joseon Dynasty and The Heart of Joseon Folk Paintings.
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Zo Za-yong
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After studying Architectural Engineering at Yonsei University , they worked in the construction industry. Following their completion of the English Publishing Translation program at Gulbab Academy , they began working as a translator affiliated with Barun Translation . Their translated works include Japanese-Style Small Houses .
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Oh Seok-hui
Oh Seok-hui is an interdisciplinary engineer exploring metaverses, extended reality, user experience design, generative AI, games, and animation. He is currently a PD at the Cultural Contents Technology Promotion Center of the Korea Creative Content Agency, leading research and development projects and project planning in the field of cultural contents. As a professor of computer science at Gachon University, he has conducted research and development on augmented reality (AR), virtual reality … -
Joachim Müller-Lancé
He graduated with honors from the Basel School of Design in Switzerland and studied art at the Cooper Union in New York, USA. He worked as a senior designer for The Understanding Business and Barclays Global Investors, and organized cultural exhibitions and publications for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. In 1993, he won a gold medal at the Morisawa Typeface Competition in Lancecerro. He is currently the head of Kame Design Studio, where he focuses on graphic design, type design, and … -
Lee Dong-guk
Lee Dong-guk is a Korean calligraphy researcher, curator, and current director of the Gyeonggi-do Museum. He has been an academic researcher at the Calligraphy Museum at the Arts Center of Korea for 35 years and has published Myth, Song of Life - From Petroglyphs to Atheists (1999), Two Thousand Years of Korean Calligraphy (2000), Ose Chang’s Pavilion. Collection World (2001), Heavenly Life, Sky of Fertility (2012), Special Exhibition on the 10th Anniversary of the Passing of Galesun … -
Cho Young-jae
A graphic designer and Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University, he is the Honorary President of the Korean Federation of Design Organizations. Throughout his illustrious career, he has held numerous influential positions in the field of design: Jury Member for the Asia Digital Art and Design Awards (2001–2007), Honorary Doctorate in Design from Dongseo University (2001), International Jury Member for Hong Kong Design Show 98 (1998), Founding President of the Korea Society of Visual … -
Ahngraphics
Ahngraphics is a Korean design publishing company and company founded by visual designer Ahn Sang-soo on February 8, 1985. It was converted to a stock company in 1990 and has grown into a comprehensive design company covering four sectors: design, digital, media, and publishing. It was the first design company to introduce DTP into practice, and contributed to the development of Korean graphic design through high-quality editorial design centered on letters. It celebrated its 30th anniversary … -
Sugiura Kohei
Sugiura Kohei is a Japanese graphic designer and researcher in Asian iconography. Throughout his career, Sugiura has been a pioneer within the design world using processes that enables the visualization of consciousness in his large body of work that ranges from record jackets and posters, to books, magazines, and exhibition catalogues, to diagrams, stamps, and more. He is also active in promoting the study of traditional Asian cultures through producing innovative catalogue designs and … -
Won Yu-hong
Won Yu-hong graduated from Hongik University’s College of Fine Arts and Dongguk Graduate School of Industrial Arts. He studied communication design at the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Design in the United States. He has worked as a designer at Cheil Industries and Deskey Associates Inc. in New York City, and served as Dean of the College of Design and Graduate School of Design at Sangmyung University and President and Vice President of the Korean Typography Society. He is currently … -
Josh A. Halstead
Josh Halstead is an epistemic activist working at the intersection of critical disability studies, design pedagogy, and community organizing. A recognized contributor to disability design discourse, they seek to unsettle and rupture normative systems of thought by centering marginalized perspectives. Halstead has been an invited lecturer in academic and industry settings—from Stanford to Google—and is co-author of the forthcoming book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary … -
Lee Suk-woo
Lee Suk-woo graduated from Hongik University, worked for Samsung Electronics in South Korea, Fuse Project and Teague in the US, and acted as a global creative leader and chief designer at Google-Motorola, Korea. Following the establishment of the industrial design office SWNA in 2011, he established his own object brand, The Liberal Office. In 2015, he was selected as one of the top 10 Global Design Studios in the design concept category at the Red Dot Awards and received the Minister of Trade, … -
Kim Kwon-jin
He majored in visual design at Hongik University and was first introduced to photography through the photography club HIPS. In 2007, she started working as a commercial photographer and photographed many products such as Kerasis, Coway, and SWBK, as well as I Love You, Ji-seon (Munhakdongne), Seasonal Food Shop for Me (Panmidong), and Graphic (Propaganda). He started taking fashion photos while sharing an office with the fashion brand Brownbreath, and through a chance introduction to Cy Choi, … -
Kim Kai-chun
He is an architect and designer, a professor at Kookmin University’s College of Architecture, and has specialized in architecture and Seon (Zen) philosophy. He has been working on architectural planning and design, painting and writing with ideas that cross over from Korean tradition and Seon thought to contemporary aesthetics. He has published books on Eastern architectural aesthetics such as “Architecture of Ming Ming” and “Lao Tzu and the Idea of Spatial Formation” and papers on the …