Jangwon Ahn

Jangwon Ahn

Jangwon Ahn is a chair of the SEGD Seoul Chapter.

Jangwon Ahn is the founder and CEO of YiEUM Partners, Inc., a nationally recognized top environmental design and wayfinding firm in Korea. Since its founding, YiEUM Partners, Inc. has been commissioned to work on various major projects throughout the country.

Jangwon Ahn
YIEUM Partners
Seoul, South Korea

SEGD’s International Members: This Week, Reporting from Seoul

SEGD’s International Members: This Week, Reporting from Seoul

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All throughout March, SEGD is celebrating YOU, our members—both here in the United States and abroad. This week, we present the first in a series of three posts from our international members. Sherwood Choe (Manager, YiEUM Partners) reports from Seoul, South Korea, where government mandated Covid restrictions have made it difficult to do business. But fellow SEGD members from around the world have leant their support to Sherwood and his Korean colleagues, sharing “messages of hope and resilience in spite of pandemic-related hardships.”

Gimpo International Airport: Info Inclusive for Everyone

Honor Award 2020
Gimpo International Airport: Info Inclusive for Everyone

With an annual passenger load of over 24 million passengers annually, servicing over 60 international destinations and all domestic flights, Gimpo International Airport is an extremely active and bustling airport for its size. Seoul-based design firm Yieum Partners’ primary role on the Gimpo remodel project was to create a new total wayfinding solution from points of entry all the way to the final departure gates.

Skyline Wayfinding

Merit Award 2019
Sylvia Harris Award 2019
Skyline Wayfinding

Geumho-dong in Seoul is a neighborhood which was built with housing as a top priority—to its detriment. Over 90 percent of the homes built in this neighborhood have no parking spots, or even streets appropriate for vehicular traffic.

Yulha Art Lounge

Honor Award 2019
Yulha Art Lounge

There are a number of reasons why some public spaces get left behind in the midst of development and progress, like: illegal dumping, restrictive access, severe restrictions on zoning, lack of funding, lack of interest, etc. The project location had all of these challenges—and more.

Hankook Tire Technodome

Finalist 2018
Hankook Tire Technodome

To continue their drive to become the top tire brand in the world, Hankook Tire recently finished construction on the first high-tech R&D campus in Korea. Designed to be a growth engine for Hankook Tire through innovation, it made possible meaningful collaboration and rapid prototyping between various segments of the company. State-of-the-art manufacturing and testing facilities are now easily accessible for researchers and designers to test radical ideas and processes, only steps away from their office.

SaRang Global Mission Center Clock Tower

Merit Award 2018
SaRang Global Mission Center Clock Tower

The SaRang Global Mission Center was established as a place for the large community of SaRang Church to gather for weekly services, while reinforcing the church’s vision (to send missionaries all over the world) and mission (to reach out to the surrounding local community). Along with the construction of the new building, there were plans to erect a more traditional bell and clock tower on the campus.

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