Speaker Yuseon Park

Yuseon Park is a graphic designer, researcher, and educator. She earned degrees in Graphic Design and Art Studies from Hongik University (BFA, BA) and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Reading, UK. Yuseon is an adjunct professor at Hongik University and serves as Director of Scholarly Publications at the Korean Society of Typography (2024–2025).

She also runs the design studio and publishing imprint Plane and Vertical, where she recently co-published Soft Hard 1 with Immanuel Yang. Her research investigates the evolution of Hangeul typefaces during the digital transition, focusing on how technological environments and shifting document genres have reshaped typographic practice.