Korea power: design and identity = Design und Identität

Abstract

"From cars to electronics, Korean design is conquering the world. This book explores Korea's contemporary design culture between tradition and the future. Currently one of the world's leading industrial nations, South Korea produces an enormous amount of consumer goods. Korea power is the first comprehensive collection of contemporary Korean product and graphic design. This book aims to document the 'Korean identity' that has been formed as the country has become a modern state in the aftermath of the fall of the Josean Dynasty, its occupation by the Japanese, and the Korean War. To this end, Korea power includes images that the legendary Korean advertising photographer Kim Han-Yong shot in the years of reconstruction following the war. It also features images shot in Seoul and Pyongyang by the German architecture photographer Dieter Leistner that strikingly capture the divided land of today."--Publisher.

Contents

Foreword / Matthias Wagner K -- Korea power : design and identity / Klaus Klemp, Ahn Hehn-Chu -- Development and characteristics of modern Korean design / Lee Soon Jong -- Fifty years of design products from Korea / Kim Shin -- Korean product worlds / Klaus Klemp -- A modernized Korean identity / Kim YoungSe -- Questions for designers in Korea : Lee Kun-Pyo / Kwon Jungmin -- Questions for designers in Korea : Peter Schreyer / Klaus Klemp -- Korean style? : craft, design, and lifestyle in 21st-century South Korea / Stephan von der Schulenburg -- Living in Seoul, building a traditional hanok / Kim Hongnam -- The creative transmission of traditional culture : adapting to modernity / Hong Yun Gyun S. -- Seeing Korea : reflections on the history of Korean graphic design / Ahn Hehn-Chu -- Characteristics of Korean design : distinctiveness, uniqueness, future value / Choi Kyung Ran.