The first time my initial design was for a chair. When I first planned the chair, I paid attention to the posture of people. Observing how many people used a particular piece of furniture in different ways, I decided to think about how to create furniture that would fit a variety of people well. So I came up with a design that could go through various forms of change, and that was the beginning of choosing a modular method.

I used the modular method to create a standard panel, which provides the basics for users to create products in the form they want. The panel could be combined or detached, change it to the way the user wanted. Thus, the link, the hinge, was considered a very important factor, and the hinge method was created to connect and remove it naturally.  Wood, my main material, is a natural material with the backside of strength and weakness, which was a challenge to test how to partially solve my design. My design was partially divided into frames, hinges, and interior, and accordingly, the selection and design of materials considering the characteristics of wooden materials were applied. I want to test the success of the design to see if my design was applicable according to the characteristics of wooden material, and I thought it was a proposal to a new design to the current of modern craft.

I want my panel to be my design signature. I wanted to express my identity, and I thought it could be my Korean characteristic. If there is a colour and design that only I can produce as an international student, in a way, I think it can be unique or distinctive to me. So I thought about what it would be like to put Korean colours in my panel. I felt that this brought traditional and classical beauty, and I tried to incorporate Korean traditional patterns into my panel.

In the end, I want my panel to have the purpose of changing it in the direction that the user wanted, not just one purpose of furniture. Given that users can create various forms on their own, this design process is expected that users who use the product without stopping at the design of the designer who provides the product can make various changes.