Cheongju has been holding the 'Cheongju International Craft Biennale' since 1999.
The festival, showcases the modern craft trends in ceramics, wood lacquer, metal, textile, and glass and opens the new prospect of world craft culture, which is now considered as the world's largest and highly regarded biennale convention for crafts.
Cheongju International Craft Biennale has emerged as a global leader that creates a united world and a fresh culture through craft.
Cheongju turns itself into a cultural place that gives importance to creativity by spreading culture, building a home for arts, and designing a new vision for the future.

http://www.cheongjubiennale.or.kr

As part of the pre-events of the biennale a banquet of 'Food is Food is Not Food' was held in London where guests had to imbibe liquids through plastic tubes, eat buns suspended from the ceiling and lick jelly from a petridish. The video from this dinner will be exhibited as part of the food community.
A host of international designers who regularly work with food have been asked to rethink the way we eat at the table. Anchored by the table designs of young Korean designer, JaebeomJeong, these designers have responded in a variety of innovative ways: from social kitchen labs and studies on current eating habits to slow fast food restaurants and edible dishes; the designers have explored what eating means and its importance to community identity.

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I have participated in chair design workshop for children hosted by CRdream who is the institute of design education for children. We have helped the children to make their own chair made of old school chairs in the last month. The results will be shown in the 'Metamorphosis' exhibition in gallery MAEZM until 16th June.

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SHOP BMM is gathering talented designers who have the world's attention and offering a chance to understand Korean life style as a Korean version of MOMA.
Please join us to meet a wide range of fashion,furnitures and other unique items made by designers in various fields.

http://www.bmmuseum.com

'Design Made' is an annual event hosted by KCDF. This year various artists participated in this event, titled 'My Dear Object' project with their recycling and upcycling works. 'Scratch' project' (with Hayan Kim) and 'Metamorphosis' are featured in this event at KCDF gallery Seoul until 30th December.

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The grid chair represents one of my works that pursue the nature and functions of objects. Mono chair is coming up with an answer for finding the ultimate foundation of a chair design in the way that a production process is highly minimized. Mono chair seeks an extreme simplicity by a conventional way, welding which does not need any small components such as bolts or nuts. Mono chair proto version will be revealed at the '2010 Seoul Design Festival' for the first time.

http://www.designfestival.co.kr/kor/index.asp