The Millennium Gate

International design competition

Composition of the Jury

• Jang Seok-woong from Hanyang University College of Engineering, who has received the Presidential Award and is associated with the Kim Joong-up Architecture Research Institute. He has served as the President of the Korean Institute of Architects and is an Emeritus Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects. He is also a Director of the Kim Swoo Geun Culture Foundation.
• Kang Seok-won from Hongik University's Department of Architecture and Art has received the Presidential Award, French National Order of Merit, and the Order of Cultural Merit of the Republic of Korea. He is a Gold Medalist of the Korean Institute of Architects, a French National Certified Architect, and an Architect in Canberra, Australia. He has served as an Honorary Member of the World Congress of Architects in Seoul, President of the Korea-France Cultural Association, President of the Korean Institute of Architects, and as a Professor at both Hongik University and Korea University.
• Ko Joo-seok, an Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University, Netherlands, has also served as a Full Professor of Architecture at Texas Tech University, USA, and a Professor at Ewha Womans University. He has received the President's Award of the International Association of Landscape Architecture, the Korean Landscape Design Award, and the Bradford Williams Award.
• Kim Jin-gyun from Seoul National University and MIT has served as President of the Architectural Institute of Korea, the Korean Educational Facilities Society, and the Federation of Institutes of Korean Architecture. He has received the Korean Educational Facilities Society Merit Award, the Architectural Institute of Korea Merit Award, and the Prime Minister's Commendation Organization Merit Award.
• Oh Hwi-young from Hanyang University's Department of Architectural Engineering, with a background in Business Administration from Illinois State University, USA, has served as a Professor and Honorary Professor at Hanyang University Graduate School of Urban Studies. He has been a Landscape Officer for the City of Chicago, the Blue House, and a Founder of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Yeungnam University and the Graduate School of Environment at Seoul National University. He is a Founder of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture and the Korean Environmental Planning and Design Association and has been an Organizing Committee Member of the International Federation of Landscape Architects.
• Yoo Wan, an Honorary Professor in the Department of Urban Engineering at Yonsei University, has served as the President of the Urban Planning Society.
• Lee Woo-jin from Korea University's Department of Civil Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering, with a background from Purdue University, USA, has worked at the Technical Research Institute of Samsung Construction and served as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Gongju National University and the School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at Korea University.
• Ji Soon from Seoul National University's Department of Architectural Engineering is the first female architect in South Korea. She founded the Ilyang Architects Office and has served as a Professor in the College of Home Economics at Yonsei University, a Director of the Korean Institute of Architects, an Honorary Director of the Korean Association of Women Architects, and has received the Korean Architecture Culture Award Grand Prize and the Cho Pyeong Architecture Award.
• Han Do-ryong from Seoul National University's Department of Applied Arts and as Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Graduate School of Industrial Arts at Hongik University. He is an Honorary Professor at the College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, and a first Cultural Diplomacy Advisory Committee Member. He has received four consecutive special selections at the National Art Exhibition of Korea, worked on the design and supervision of the Korean Pavilion at the Montreal Expo, Canada, with Kim Swoo-geun, and participated in the display work for the Seoul Expo. He has served as the President of the Korean Society of Contemporary Design and received the Dongtan Industrial Medal, the Silver Tower Industrial Medal, and has been inducted into the Designers Hall of Fame.

  Winners

Lee Eunseok

O'pus Architects

2nd Place

• Professor Lim Chae-jin + Lee Sang Environmental Architecture Office

  3rd Place

• SPACE Group
• Heerim Architects

  Media attention

Domestic media