Design Industry 'Real Experts' Come to Busan... Gyeongnam Jeongbodae Invites Top Designers for Special Lecture

To Enhance Creative Convergence Skills of Enrolled Students... Partially Opened to Busan Citizens
Lectures by 6 Authorities Including Kakao, Google, Starbucks... Live on YouTube

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The true masters of South Korea's design world are coming to Busan.

On November 14th at 2 PM, the top designers in the country will gather at the Centum Campus Convention Hall of Gyeongnam Information University (President Chu Man-seok).

Gyeongnam Information University established the ‘CCF (Creative Convergence Forum)’ to cultivate the capabilities of its students to become creative convergence talents who can successfully navigate the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

The first event of this forum is themed ‘Think with Design,’ inviting six renowned designers including Choi Kyung-guk, Vice President of Kakao; Shim Jun-yong, Senior Art Director at Google; Park Young-ha, Creative Director at Starbucks; Kim Bong-chan, Head of Brand Strategy at Daishin Securities; and Byeon Sa-beom and Shin Myung-seop, Executive Directors of Withercore Design, to hold special lectures.

The special lectures will cover various topics over four hours, starting with Kakao’s Choi Kyung-guk on ‘Platform Branding,’ followed by Withercore’s Byeon Sa-beom and Shin Myung-seop (The 10-year story of how a design studio survives and NEXT), Google’s Shim Jun-yong (Three branding projects in Silicon Valley), Starbucks’ Park Young-ha (The design stopover of a professional wanderer), and Daishin Securities’ Kim Bong-chan (Design in reverse).

Although these special lectures are prepared for the students, they will be ‘slightly’ open to the citizens of Busan as well.

Those wishing to attend the lectures can apply for participation and listen to the lectures on-site. Online applicants will also be provided with a YouTube live link on the day of the event.

President Chu Man-seok of Gyeongnam Information University stated, “Through the Creative Convergence Forum, CCF, we plan to discuss various topics that can induce creative convergence thinking such as engineering, humanities, and philosophy.”

This event is hosted by Gyeongnam Information University and organized by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea as part of the 2020 Specialized College Innovation Support Project (Type 1).

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