Kyu Sung Woo wins Ho-Am Prize

Posted by JJ on Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Amidst talk about awards and competitions accompanying the Priztker win by Jean Nouvel, the Ho-Am Prize was presented to Kyu Sung Woo.

Of all the milestones the Seoul-born architect has reached recently, one of the most significant, he says, was winning the Ho-Am Prize for the arts. It marks the first time in its 17-year history that the award, a $200,000 prize commonly referred to as Korea’s Nobel Prize, has gone to an architect.

In a country where architecture is gaining in stature by leaps and bounds, this latest development proves telling of the manner which Koreans receive the profession, and the fruits of its labor.

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