COMMUNICATING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN ASIA

Landscape Architecture Korea

Published Seoul, South Korea

Founded 1982

Editor Jeoungeun Kim, senior editor

Landscape Architecture Australia — Could you tell us about the journal you edit?

Jeoungeun Kim — Landscape Architecture Korea (LAK) magazine was founded in 1982 and has published 354 issues (as of October 2017). LAK pursues three visions for the advancement of Korean landscape architecture culture: firstly, a public sphere that could lead the development of landscape architecture culture; secondly, a field of social communication where landscape discourses and critiques could be produced and shared; and thirdly, a vanguard base where global contemporaneity as well as regionality are discovered and accommodated.

LAA — Which edition has been your most successful?

JK — A special issue titled “Bicycle City – A city that encourages cycling” (no. 324, April 2015), which comprises various articles about cycling, city and culture. Han Gyeol Jo’s article “Riding to work in Seoul,” based on real-life experience, received a very good response from many readers.

Another special issue, titled “Growing up as a landscape architect”