SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s home appliance makers are releasing a variety of products that can also be used as interior props at home. LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday released a brand-new air purifier called the Puricare Aero Furniture that can also be used as a table. Designed to cope with the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it has developed the nation’s first industrial site safety designs that can be distinguished by individuals with color vision deficiency (CVD). At present, there are many cases where the safety colors used at industrial sites include red (prohibition) and green (guide), which cannot [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent years, LG Electronics Inc., a global leader in traditional home appliances, has striven to become an industry leader that creates hardly-seen-before and innovative devices, ranging from a steam closet to an automated indoor gardening device to a home brewer. Such moves, regardless of how niche of a [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s new presidential office to be housed in the defense ministry compound in central Seoul will be open for public viewing in accordance with his preference for communication and openness, transition team officials said Tuesday. According to an artist’s rendering released by a task force from the [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The public restrooms in Seoul are being transformed with a new ‘universal design.’ The Seoul Metropolitan Government and its affiliated Universal Design Center said Wednesday that they had applied non-discriminatory ‘universal design’ for the public restrooms at three district community centers. Universal design refers to design principals make a [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A foreign children fashion brand is gaining attention after releasing a series of new clothes with large inscriptions of Korean letters. Mini Rodini, a Swedish fashion brand for children popular in South Korea for its unique, colorful patterns, recently released a series of new clothes for spring and summer, [...]
DAEJEON, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The contactless practices triggered by the coronavirus outbreak are altering the landscape of the design industry. The Korean Intellectual Property Office reported a decrease in the number of new design patents for beauty products and fabric, while applications for products related to hobbies, entertainment, and exercise increased in number. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The winner of an international design contest conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government to transform the central waterfront space of the Seoul International District (SID) into a leisure and cultural space has been unveiled. The winning design “weaves” together the entire area around the confluence of the Tancheon stream [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A special exhibition by the National Hangeul Museum kicked off its five-month run Monday to explore the Korean alphabet’s potential as a design motif. The exhibition, “Transformations: Experiments in Hangeul Design,” brought together some 300 creative visual works by 22 Korean designers and design teams. They include graphic design, [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gwangju Design Biennale kicked off its two-month journey in the southern city of Gwangju on Friday to explore and experiment with innovative design ideas under this year’s theme, “humanity.” Running till Oct. 31, the design festival will bring together 650 designers from 50 countries and 120 corporate entities. [...]