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The 5th Hangeul Design Project: Senses of Writing — Tools & Perception at Gimhae
This exhibition has ended.
Touring design exhibition on Hangeul, tools and perception, hosted at Gimhae's Kimyoungwon Museum of Art while the main building is closed for fire-damage repairs.
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Write on Park Yuseon's interactive installation and it records how fast you went, how hard you pressed, which way each stroke ran and how long it took. Your handwriting becomes data, and the data becomes the work.
This is the touring version of the National Hangeul Museum's fifth Hangeul design project, first shown at Culture Station Seoul 284 over the winter of 2025-26. Around 140 works by 23 artists and designers ask what happens to letters when hardly anyone holds a pencil. BKID made 17 new pencils to test how grip changes the way you think, and novelist Kim Choyeop wrote a story in which a script called Nemo replaces Hangeul for AI. The plaster original of the bronze Sejong in Gwanghwamun Square stands in the same gallery.
Note the address: this is Gallery 3 of the new Kimyoungwon Museum of Art in Gimhae, near Busan, as the Seoul museum is closed after its 2025 fire. Hours are 10:00 to 18:00, closed Mondays, tickets on site. It ends 1 November.
Look for
Unspecified Type. Ver. Han
Look for Park Yuseon's installation, which captures the speed, pressure, direction and timing of handwriting as data.
The Depth of Letters
Kim Daeyeon's piece turns the force, pressure, speed and path of a brush stroke into something you can see.
Write, Draw, Think
BKID's 17 newly designed pencils, each built to test how the way you hold and press changes your train of thought.
The Hangeul writing desk and cabinet
Bang Seokho's furniture in the look of ink and inkstone, the desk shaped on Hangeul's heaven-earth-human principle and the cabinet carrying the eight trigrams.
The Sejong statue prototype
Kim Young-won's plaster model for the seated King Sejong in Gwanghwamun Square, the only one in Korea, permanently installed in Gallery 3.
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- National Museum of KoreaJinah78 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0