SPACE September 2025 (No. 694)
©Bang Yukyung
Jung Yumi creative director, Project Re\Turning Gunsan × Bang Yukyung
Bang Yukyung (Bang): You studied fashion and have worked across many fields as a designer, planner, and entrepreneur. How did you come to join Project Re\Turning Gunsan (hereinafter Re\Turning Gunsan)?
Jung Yumi (Jung): My first involvement was in November 2019, when Re\Turning Gunsan began with the exhibition ‘DEAR PARADISO’. At the time, I was running a small art hotel in Jeju, and Song Sungjin reached out to ask if I would curate the exhibition. This block used to be filled with fortune-telling shops. Just before demolition, when the shops had moved out and the space was left in ruins, we created an exhibition space in the hope that it might become a new paradise. Architect Son Jean, one of the participating artists, even wrote the exhibition foreword under the title Re\Turning.
After spending about three weeks working in Gunsan, I left right away for Finland on business. Later, Song invited me to join the project. It wasn’t an easy decision, but the energy of the people I had worked with in Gunsan, the memory of the space, and the lingering impression of the exhibition all made a strong impression on me.
The study process for the hotel’s outer wall ©ISON Architects
Bar Ingrid. Image courtesy of ShareWe LC.
Bang: What was the situation at Re\Turning Gunsan at that time, and what role did you take on after joining?
Jung: When I returned from Finland in A...
