Design I love – Korea Edition – LIONINTHETREES

This is part 5/5 of my Korea posts!

I always have an eye for design and details, so I wanted to have a separate post sharing some of the design that caught my eye over in Korea. 🙂

There are a couple of decorated concrete path tiles from Jeju Island that may be considered NSFW, fyi!!
I marked the areas with headers!

A photo of a mural along a part of the coast of Jeju Island featuring their horse lighthouses frolicking.

Photo of a cute cat mascot on the side of a building

A photo of a manhole cover found on Jeju Island featuring what appears to be a humanised character of the dol hareubang

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art found on the sidewalk of jeju island portraying a nude man dancing on top of flowers

art found on the sidewalk of jeju island portraying a nude figure standing on top of a crab hoisting a fish over their head

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art found on the sidewalk of jeju island portraying two fish facing each other and what appears to be an apple or some kind of fruit in-between them

A very scary looking building???? I think it's supposed to be some kind of art experience/installation inside???

The Grimm Forest - a building found on Jeju Island that is done in a black and white cartoon style and it has a large, fearsome cartoon head on the top of the building.

A to-go cup of chai tea with a cartoon goose dressed up in a nice vest and hat on the side of the cup.

A photo of a mailbox found on Jeju Island. It's read with a stylistic bird done in white. It reads "Po'st"

A photo of an advertisement for delaffe x mrd.donothing. It portrays a white (not caucasian - they're literally white) hanging out on a pool chair with a seagull on their head.

This was a very cute blue bird themed cafe we hung out in to get out of the rain while we were in Seoul!

A photo of the cafe's blue bird mascot waving and saying "Hi!"

Photo of the little blue bird mascot as a sticker on the window where they appear to be resting on the window ledge.

A cup of matcha green tea latte in a mug with a cute little blue bird on it, and a similar blue bird macaron

This was the base of the light poles on the outside of Changgyeonggung Palace. Definitely one of my favourite pieces of design I saw in Korea.

I forgot to add this to my post involving the National Museum of Korea, but this was a little handmade ceramic Seoksu I bought in the gift shop! The Seoksu is a protective stone animal-like beast that is often placed at or within a tomb. They had a variety of colours, but I fell in love with this turquoise one. 🙂

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