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The Seoul Young Designers Pavilion was part of this year's Designersblock in Covent Garden. The group of young Korean designers was showing a wide variety of objects. In the pictures above are Sungmin Hong's wall-mounted Book Holders, the Ylum light installation by Moon-Jung Kim & Sung-Su Kang, Jaehyung Hong's Wire Buttons that ease the use of headphones and Sante Kim's Winebottle-Speaker made - as the name suggests - from recycled wine bottles. Also shown is Nosigner's Egg Lamp, made of real chicken eggs that survived all the way from Japan. Nosigner was not part of the Young Designer exhibit, but was nearby.

In the pictures below are Min gyu Jeung's rubber phone Damn You for aggressive outbreaks during phone calls, one example of Esther Lee's wonderful outstanding series of Escape illustrations (all describing men trying to escape from square environments) and Hwang Kim's Folding bed for Homeless made from cardboard (he intends to adapt them to the british environment by making them waterproof). All in all it was an inspired and imaginative effort from Korea's new young front line designers in an overall pleasurable Designersblock.

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