Kyungsung University – Department of Industrial Design

Kyungsung University is a private university in Busan, South Korea, founded in 1955 by the Reverend Kim Gil-chang as Kyungnam Teacher’s College. It was reorganised as Pusan Industrial University in 1979, took its present name in 1988, and now occupies a campus in Daeyeon-dong, Nam-gu, a short distance from the city’s beaches and its port and manufacturing districts.

The Department of Industrial Design sits inside the College of Arts, next to visual communication design and the music and physical education departments, and it is where the university trains product designers rather than fine artists. Studio courses move from sketching and model-making to digital modelling and prototyping, and students work on consumer electronics, appliances, furniture and mobility, the categories that define Busan’s industrial base and the broader Korean manufacturing economy. The department’s projects circulate through Korean design awards and student showcases, and its graduates go into appliance, electronics and furniture companies as well as independent studios.