YMG Type Foundry is a professional team specializing in multiscript type design, particularly for Hangeul, Latin, and CJK scripts. We offer high-end custom typefaces tailored to each culture’s typographic traditions and trends.
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5F, 22 World Cup buk-ro 5-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul 04000, Republic of Korea
Mingoo Yoon
Founder/Director, Type Designer
Founder/Director, Type Designer
Mingoo Yoon studied visual communication design and earned a master’s degree from ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he conducted research on bi-script type design for Hangeul and Latin. He worked as a researcher and type designer at AG Typography Institute and taught type design and typography at Hongik University and Ewha Womans University. He has released original typefaces including YMG Yoonseul Batang (2017), YMG Blanc (2018), and YMG Munche Gothic (2025), and has developed custom typefaces for clients such as YouTube, Gentle Monster, Tamburins, Songeun Art and Cultural Foundation, and Eulyoo Publishing Company. He also collaborates with international foundries including Dinamo, Lineto, and Displaay. He served as a design advisor for Korean title typography on Netflix, and contributed to Korean and CJK projects for Google and Adobe. His work has been exhibited at Typojanchi: International Typography Biennale (2015, 2019) and is included in the collections of the National Hangeul Museum and Die Neue Sammlung in Munich.
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Exhibition
2025 Hangeul: cuando la letra se convierte en arte — Centro Cultural Coreano, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2024 100 FILMS 100 POSTERS — 25th Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea 2024 4321-MARKET at House of Switzerland — Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy 2023 SWISS–KOREAN SOUVENIR MARKET — Embassy of Switzerland, Seoul, Korea 2023 TYPE TEXT KOREA — Medium Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2022 Planthunter: Vessel, Hummingbirds, Imaginary Pottery — wrm space, Seoul, Korea 2021 Survey 2021: Design Tools — wrm space, Seoul, Korea 2019 Typojanchi 2019: International Typography Biennale — Seoul, Korea 2019 Favorit Hangul Launching Project — wrm space, Seoul, Korea 2018 ARCHIGRAPHIÆ — Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy 2017 USEFUL WORDS — Index Shop, Seoul, Korea 2017 In Limbo: Room of Plants — wrm space, Seoul, Korea 2017 KOREA: DESIGN + POSTER — Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany 2017 Prototypes and Future of the Korean Alphabet — National Hangeul Museum, Seoul, Korea 2016 Prototypes and Future of the Korean Alphabet — Korean Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan 2016 AGI Congress Seoul — Special Project — Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul, Korea 2016 The Power of Words in Advertisement — National Hangeul Museum, Seoul, Korea 2016 Print Program #4 — Specimen — La Fonderie Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland 2016 100 FILMS 100 POSTERS — 17th Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea 2015 Typojanchi 2015: International Typography Biennale — Seoul, Korea 2015 Unlimited Edition 7: Poster Only — Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2015 XS: Young Studio Collection — Ujeongguk, Seoul, Korea 2015 70th Korea’s Independence Day Special Exhibition — Gallery Ddung, Seoul, Korea 2015 Childhood Skateboard Exhibition — Wordcoffee Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2015 100 FILMS 100 POSTERS — 16th Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea 2015 Found In Translation: Stigma & Cognition — Fifty Fifty Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2014 Ink Village Gathering — Corners, Seoul, Korea 2014 Found In Translation — Openhouse Gallery, New York, USA 2014 Wearing Hangeul Project — Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul, Korea 2013 Birth of Hangeul — Hanul 13.0, Thanksbooks Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2012 Orot Han, Geul, Hanul 12.0 — Jeongdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Jieun Kim
UI·UX/Type Designer
UI·UX/Type Designer
Jieun Kim studied visual communication design at Konkuk University and began her career as a designer at AG Typography Institute. She released YMG Blanc in 2018 and Noir, her original display typeface, in 2025. Her work was featured at Typojanchi: International Typography Biennale in 2015 and 2019. At YMG Type Foundry, she has led numerous long-term projects including ABC Favorit Hangul, ABC Whyte Hangul, YouTube Sans KR, and Eulyoo1945. Her current research focuses on developing brand-specific typefaces optimized for increasingly diverse display and mobile environments.
Min-Young Kim
Project Director, Researcher
Project Director, Researcher
Min-Young Kim is a trilingual typographer and researcher specializing in CJK-Latin typography. After completing her Master’s degree at Musashino Art University on history & modern usages of CJK-Latin multiscript typesetting, Min developed her career as a type project manager at Japanese type foundries: Morisawa and Fontworks. In 2020, she became independent and founded Studio Em Dash, focusing on multiscript type development and typography consultancy. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Reading, and teaching Typography at Musashino Art University since 2025.
Sohyun Park
Project Director, Editor
Project Director, Editor
Sohyun Park is a design planner and editor. She graduated from the Department of Art Studies at Hongik University and earned her master’s degree in Visual Communication Design from the same institution. As a planner in the design division at AhnGraphics, she worked on Amorepacific’s corporate typefaces, including Arita Dotum, Arita Buri, and Arita Sans. As a senior researcher at the AG Typography Institute, she also led the development of the Jogye Order’s Seokbo typeface. She conducted research for Shinsegae Department Store’s proprietary typeface and developed its “Modern Heritage” concept, and served as the lead planner and editor for issues 12 and 13 of the T, a typography magazine published by Yoon Design Group.