Park Hyeontaek majored in Visual Design at Hongik University and has worked at the National Museum of Korea for about 20 years. While engaging in the fields of the “museum,” “design," and “culture,” he felt doubts about the phenomenon in which designs become increasingly obsessed with external decoration only. Thinking about design again, he was faced with a question of “Why, and for whom do we design?” rather than “How do we design?” Park realized that designs should not be about the “decoration technique” but rather the “form of daily life.” Based on such thoughts, he published books such as Old Design, The Collection of Traditional Korean Patterns Formative Arts, and Design Is Dead.