Kyung-Hoon LEE
Head, Samsung Design Europe
Kyung-Hoon Lee is Head of Office at Samsung Design Europe with its offices in London, Milan and Paris. He has been with Samsung since 1994 as product designer, creative director and one of the leader of design groups in Samsung Corporate Design Center.
He was invited to Verona Fiere "Beyond the World" design exhibition in 2000. He also had special experience in collaboration as representative of Samsung design at IDEO in Palo Alto, USA and Design Continuum in Boston, USA to learn advanced design processes in 1994, 1996 and 1997. He is one of the members who set "Samsung internal design evaluation system" up and one of the members in valuation committee from the beginning. He was involved in judging on iF concept design awards in Germany as jury (2011~2012) and jury of Samsung Young Design Awards in Italy from 2012.
Kyung-Hoon has received iF design awards(2001, 2005)and has won IDEA Gold(1998) and Bronze design awards(1999) from IDSA in US as well. Kyung-Hoon won the President of Korea Award from Good Design Awards in Korea(2001). In 2002, he has received "The most admirable employee in design" award from the chairman of Samsung Group. He holds a Master degree in industrial design from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.