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Seoul Design Festival: Celebrating Innovative DesignSo you think you're pretty chic? Well, step up to the line and face the style test as the dynamism of international and domestic designers is now being flaunted in two exciting events in Seoul.
While Seoul Design Festival has gathered a creative crop together at the Hangaram Design Museum, another flock of young designers gathered by independent design group Designers Planet have exhibitions scattered among 8 galleries around Seoul.
International designer and resident of Milan for ten years, Kim Chi-ho is director of the Seoul Design Festival that aim for people to "Enjoy Hot Style from Creators."
The event has an international edge, which intends to separate Korean design identity by standing it up alongside the iconic and new from other nations.
Korea's reputation as a technology hub comes through in Kim In-ho's microchip jewelry that resembles gritty creatures made from computer insides. Such Korean designs were chosen as items that embody the tradition indirectly, "Anyone who designs furniture or lamps, that person has a Korean style simply because they are Korean; we don't need to find the Arirang line or the Taegukki symbol, we do not need any stereotypical motif," Kim explained.
Traditional departure points can be seen in the "pojagi" modeled bags made by Front Design, while Park Jin-woo takes dar
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