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• London vs Jeju (Shortlisted V&A student awards 2016)I was born on Jeju Island in Korea. Jeju Island is a beautiful island that was designated as a UNESCO world heritage site. Jeju Island is often known for the three things it has in abundance – rocks, wind and women. It is also an island formed by a volcano eruption. At present there is a population of 600,000 and is known to be the most populated island in Korea. I was inspired by the project 'Paris vs New York' by Vahram Muratyan and started to compare London where I had lived with Jeju Island where I was born. Through this project I wanted to show the difference between Jeju and London. It was a fun project as I got to compare the two regions that are seemingly different yet similar. I tried hard to make sure that people would understand at first glance what I wanted to convey. Koreans are familiar with London but Londoners are not familiar with Jeju Island. I hope that this project can help promote my beautiful home town.
• Something bad
• Addictive PersonalityThe cartoon work was particularly interesting for me, perhaps the most interesting work I have ever undertaken. It was my second experience of making a cartoon. Making the character ‘Alex’ and altering his appearance was very fun. Based on my research, addictive personalities often move seamlessly into other forms of addiction. I wanted to make people think about themselves. Perhaps some of them have this personality type. Our tutor Clare told me that, when she looked at my cartoon, she saw the character as being like her husband. So I realised that my cartoon really worked for other people! It was great to realise that there were people around me who really had that personality type. At first, my sketches were not clear, and to be honest were not particularly exciting. Robin advised me that if I kept the same layout, it might seem quite dull. So for my final work I chose different size cartoon boxes. I think this looked much better. I chose the girlfriend method because I had to present the notion of losing someone. I was thinking about family, and the idea that there is no such thing as a substitute family. Hence, I choose the idea of changing someone’s girlfriend. The main character here changes his addiction, and loses his relationship to all of his addictions. This story is not a happy-ending, but I was happy with the work because it was presented without too dark a feeling, and had an aspect of humour as well, and this is what I wanted before moving on to the outcome.

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Skills

• Abobe Indesign/photoshop/illustrator
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• Colours

Awards

London vs Jeju (Shortlisted V&A student awards 2016)V&A