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A Destination via the World: The 14th Gwangju Biennale ‘Soft and Weak like Water’

The 14th Gwangju Biennale opened on the 7th of April. As the largest art festival in Asia, the works of 79 participating artists from Korea and around the world flooded into the city of Gwangju. Organised by artistic director Sook-Kyung Lee, the theme of the biennale is ‘Soft and Weak like Water’, borrowed from Dao ...

Jun 21, 2023
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Realistic, Holistic, and Strategic: Architectur...

Jun 12, 2023
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In Search of Park Kilyong’s Architecture: An A...

Hyon-Sob Kim (professor, Korea University) published an article titled ‘What If Park Kilyong Was Not the Ar...

Jun 02, 2023
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Experiencing the Rewards of Virtual Reality in ...

In this April, SPACE, in collaboration with OLIM PLANET, opened a virtual reality space, the ‘Meta SPACE’. ...

May 25, 2023
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[THE CAFÉ PHENOMENON] Cafés from Acro...

May 24, 2023
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[The Café Phenomenon] Reading Cafés f...

Visiting famous cafés as if on a pilgrimage to sacred places and posting them on Instagram is be a new...

May 23, 2023
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Capital, City, Lifestyle and Café Architec...

On weekends, people head to cafés on the outskirts of the city. The drive escaping from the city centr...

May 22, 2023
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[Phenomenon 3] Challenging the Mundane Through ...

As they occupy the same café space, people are forced into indirect contact with one another. It means...

May 19, 2023
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[Phenomenon 3] Challenging the Mundane Through ...

The most important thing for a café is efficient circulation for coffee making and consumption. While ...

May 18, 2023
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[Phenomenon 3] Challenging the Mundane Through ...

A region is sustained by the economic activities of a commercial space, while a commercial space is sustain...

May 17, 2023
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[Phenomenon 3] Challenging the Mundane Through ...

However, cafés that have become part of the urban centre possess different characteristics because the...

May 16, 2023
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[The Café Phenomenon] Creating a Brand Exp...

But what about Blue Bottle Coffee, another large chain, that first set foot in the Korean market in 2019? L...

May 15, 2023
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[The Café Phenomenon] The Neighbourhood Ca...

Cafés have now become deeply engrained in our daily lives. Amid the increasing number of cafés th...

May 12, 2023
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[The Café Phenomenon] The Neighbourhood Ca...

Cafés have now become deeply engrained in our daily lives. Amid the increasing number of cafés th...

May 11, 2023
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[The Café Phenomenon] Beyond a Café i...

Coffee Culture Complex (2020) is a neighbourhood living facility mediated by coffee, and is a building with...

May 10, 2023
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[The Café Phenomenon] Beyond a Café i...

Space Mijo, newly opened last year, is located in front of the Mijo Fishing Port, which is at the utmost so...

May 09, 2023
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[The Café Phenomenon] Beyond a Café i...

May 08, 2023
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[THE CAFÉ PHENOMENON] Is the Café a N...

Cafés have always been more than just places that serve coffee. From the large-scale cafés that h...

Apr 28, 2023
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[THE CAFÉ PHENOMENON] How Café Has He...

Apr 27, 2023
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Planting Outside of the Plan: Anmadang The Lab

Anmadang The Lab (co-principals, Oh Hyunju, Lee Bumsoo), a landscape design office now in its eighth year, ...

Apr 24, 2023
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The Key to Sustainable Culture and Arts: Intern...

Apr 21, 2023