A purpose of this thesis is to analysis special feature articles and show the trend and characteristics of the Korean Design Discourse in Monthly magazines called Design. The subject of this study is magazines. The Magazines are published through cer...
A purpose of this thesis is to analysis special feature articles and show the trend and characteristics of the Korean Design Discourse in Monthly magazines called Design. The subject of this study is magazines. The Magazines are published through certain term unlike books, which are on available once at publication. In addition, the magazines should keep satisfying readers’ needs that are frequently changed and also the magazines are closely related to discourses. Thus , I concluded that results of my research from examining discourses in magazines are appropriate to show interests in certain fields and trend of discourses. I have chosen Design magazines among design related monthly magazines, which is oldest and eminent one. The study uses three different approaches that are notion of design, keywords and designers. Notion of design are to investigate points of view towards certain design and divided into Business •Industry, Art•Creativity, Culture•Publicity, History, Education, New media•Digital, Critic, Methodology and those transition. Keyword indicates that terms used. The keywords are divided into World, Korea, Event, Convergence, Economy•Business, Education and so on and the keywords’ transition. Designers are considered as a meaningful role that is most important aspect of the design industry so I performed multi-side analysis. The first Characteristic of Korea design is that the design has been confined to the business and industry categories. I did an research based on the history of business and industry categories in 80's and 2000 respectively, and both periods have been established a close relationship between the design and the categories of design and industry. In 80's, business and industry categories had an influence that allows a coexistence with other categories. However, the balance of coexistence was destroyed in 2000 because of the severe economic recession. The second is that the "world" defined by our domestic design system is limited to only a few countries. In fact these countries are identical to the developed countries. In other words, we can say that the design is appreciated within the economical and the political logics. The third is a steady interest in Korean design. However, this kind of interest includes the 'Restoration' and 'Orientalism' that aware of the third's eyes, also called "the world". The fourth is the fantasy about star designers and the desire to foster them. I have realized that events happened in this society has closed relationships with design and desires exist. The Study is meaningful in terms of analyzing the domestic designers in multi-sides that is most important aspect of the design industry. Also the study can be considered as meaningful research because it is helpful to establish a significant tool to comprehend entire design history.