Ways of Reading

Preview: written before the show opened

The show starts from one change: the arrival of horizontal Hangul writing in Korean printing and publishing in the 1970s, and what it did to graphic design.

From there it follows three stretches. First phototypesetting and offset printing in the 1970s and 80s, then the transitional digital tools of the 1980s and 90s, then recent work that plays with the material and the immaterial. Two works the museum names are Chung Byoungkyoo's Tape Typography_Book Series, a digital inkjet print from 2014 (reproduced in 2020), and Sulki and Min's Technical Drawings, chromogenic prints from 2014. It sits in Seoul B1, Galleries 6 and 7, as one of MMCA's research-driven shows for 2026.

Whatever you read on the 8:30 Line 2 crush at Sindorim, someone once had to decide how its letters sit. It opens on 20 November and runs to 4 April 2027. The museum's page lists no ticket price yet.