Speaker Ryu Hyunguk

“Ryu Hyunguk is a professor at the National Tsukuba University of Technology in Japan. Over the past thirty years, he has been studying “Korean modern type printing history” and “Modern Korean typeface design history,” “Change of typeface in the era of Korean mechanization,” “Change in the direction of Hangeul notation,” and “North Korean type printing history of design history” in Japan. With the “Change in character design brought about by the development of Korean typewriters,” which has been neglected by modern type printing companies, Hyunguk started full-fledged research on Korean typography, starting with Dr.Design research.

For the first time in Korea, Korean typewriters, Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, Benton matrix engraving machines, and phototypesetting machines, which appeared in the era of Korean mechanization, have been investigated and analyzed for more than twenty years.

Major books: “The Practice of East Asian Typographer,” Korea Publishing Research Institute for the 26th Korean Publishing Criticism Award, The Grand Prize (2019); “Galaxy of Hangeul Type (1945-2010)”, Sejong Excellent Academic Books (Culture Division), and Korea Publishing Agency (2017); “Ryu Hyun-guk’s GungsuhChe Design,” Typeface Division (nominate), Tokyo TDC (2016); “Birth of Hangeul Type (1820-1945) typeface, Sejong Excellent Academic Books (History Division), the Korea Publishing Agency (2015); the 22nd Korean Publishing Criticism Award, “Birth of Hangeul Type (1820-1945), Korea Publishing Research Institute (2015), and many others.”