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Seoul Design Festival 2018

Seoul Design Festival is a design-specialized exhibition based on contents accumulated by Monthly since 1976 and networks of domestic and foreign design industry. The first Seoul Design Festival was held in 2002. Seoul Design Festival is designed to enhance design competitiveness of domestic and foreign brands by showing design trends along with corporate brands with the motto “Designer Promotion.” Also, it has been grown into a place of exchange to support domestic designers’ expansion to the world and introduce world designers to the domestic market.

Through Seoul design festival, a total of 1,200 brands have successfully promoted their own brands and over 2,700 designers were discovered and introduced. Particularly, the largest number of 95 thousand people visited 2017 Seoul Design Festival in five days, so that it proved itself as the leading and influential event in the Korean design industry.

As such, Seoul Design Festival has grown into a festival as a stepping stone for Korean designers toward the world and a gate for world’s designers toward the Korean market. Along with the festival, design seminar with global star designers will be held and “Seoul Design Spot” program which discovers and introduces attractive and hidden design spots in Seoul. Charming streets and alleys in Seoul will present spectacular scenes of design.