40 Korean Design Agencies & Studios to Know in 2026, by Specialty

Summary: Which Korean design agencies and studios to look at first, by specialty

• 40 Korean design agencies and studios, grouped into eight fields: branding and BX, UX/UI and digital product, full-service agencies, media art, product and industrial design, graphic and editorial design, spatial design, and specialist studios. It is organized by the kind of work you need done, not ranked.
• Branding and BX: Plus X, HuskyFox, CFC, Total Impact, Infinite, Ordinary People, Eggplant Factory.
• UX/UI and digital product: Rightbrain, Designfever, Duotone, VinylC. BAT is the full-service option that handles brand strategy through performance marketing in one team.
• Media art and immersive work: d'strict, SILO Lab, Easywith, CUZ, KALLOS. Product and industrial design: BKID, SWNA, GoDesign, Citrus Design.
• Graphic, editorial and typography: Ahn Graphics, Everyday Practice, Sulki and Min, Workroom Press, 601bisang, Studio fnt, Chuigraf. Spatial: Labotory, Post-standards and Studio Framer, which is a commercial interior studio, not a Framer web builder. For a longer spatial list, see 30 Korean spatial branding agencies.

Last updated: October 2026. Operating status and descriptions were rechecked against each firm's own site. Looking for a narrower list? See Korean spatial branding agencies for retail and commercial space, or how to choose a branding agency before you shortlist anyone.

Top 40 Korean Design Agencies & Studios in 2026, by Specialty

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Table of Contents

1. Branding & BX (Brand Experience)
2. UX/UI & Digital Product
3. Integrated Brand Agencies & Marketing-Linked Firms
4. Media Art & Immersive Content
5. Product & Industrial Design
6. Graphic, Editorial & Typography
7. Spatial & Architectural Design
8. Specialists & Emerging Studios

1. Branding & BX (Brand Experience)

Plus X

🔗 https://www.plus-ex.com · 📸 @plusx_creative

Founded in 2010, Plus X is a brand experience (BX) design agency that designs the experience across every point where a brand meets its customers. It covers BX consulting, UI/UX, design systems, packaging, and motion graphics, and runs the design education brand Share X. The iF Design Award page lists 49 awarded entries for Plus X and ranks it 5th among 419 Korean companies for 2021 to 2025.

HuskyFox

🔗 https://huskyfox.com · 📸 @huskyfox.den

A branding studio in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, HuskyFox works on brand identity, graphic, motion, and packaging design. Its portfolio lists projects for Naver Pay, LE SSERAFIM, KATSEYE, and SK Telecom, across fashion, fitness, entertainment, and food.

CFC (Content Form Context)

🔗 https://contentformcontext.com · 📸 @hithere.cfc

CFC is a brand experience design studio that analyzes content, form, and context to build brand experiences. Its portfolio includes Olive Young N Seongsu, Tous Les Jours, Chilsung Cider, and YES24, with identity and packaging design at the center.

Total Impact

🔗 https://www.total-impact.net · 📸 @totalimpact_design

Total Impact works in a European Dutch design style. It says it takes clients from BX consulting through UX design to digital platform UI development as one flow.

Infinite

🔗 https://www.infinite.co.kr · 📸 Unconfirmed

Located on Chungjeong-ro in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Infinite is an identity development specialist that says it has developed more than 1,300 brands. Its core work includes corporate and brand identity, packaging, and communication design.

Ordinary People

🔗 https://ordinarypeople.info · 📸 @ordinarypeople.seoul

Ordinary People is a Seoul design studio that leads with brand strategy and art direction. Its portfolio lists an Olive Young identity renewal, work for the Hoam and Leeum museums, Netflix K-content social branding, and album identities including BTS's Proof.

Eggplant Factory

🔗 https://www.eggplantfactory.co.kr · 📸 @eggplantfactory_official

Eggplant Factory calls itself a creative partner for startups and small businesses. It handles brand strategy and identity, packaging and websites, space and architectural design, and brand content and operation, with food and beverage, cosmetics, supplements, retail, and office projects in its portfolio.

2. UX/UI & Digital Product

Rightbrain

🔗 http://rightbrain.co.kr · 📸 Unconfirmed

Rightbrain is a UX agency that bundles research, consulting, planning, and design into integrated digital services. Its portfolio lists Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, Hana Bank, Shinsegae Department Store, Starbucks, LG Electronics, and KT's Genie TV, and its RightBrain Lab blog shares UX trends and research methods.

Designfever

🔗 https://designfever.com · 📸 Unconfirmed

Founded in 2000, Designfever has grown alongside Korea's digital agency scene. It says 104 specialists have completed 838 projects and won 184 domestic and international awards. Client logos on its site include Samsung, Hyundai, LG, SK Telecom, Naver, Kakao, and Nexon, and its core strengths are web and mobile interaction and creative communication.

Duotone

🔗 https://duotone.io · 📸 @duotone.io

Duotone is a product design agency that designs product strategy, process, and design systems, drawing on UX research and interaction design. It splits its work into brand, user, creative, and interactive experience, and runs the design education platform Openpass together with the Design Spectrum community.

VinylC

🔗 https://vinylc.com · 📸 Unconfirmed

VinylC is a UX agency that goes by the banner "Practical UX." It says it diagnoses, builds, and operates services at the touchpoints where companies and users meet most often.

3. Integrated Brand Agencies & Marketing-Linked Firms

BAT

🔗 https://batcrew.co.kr · 📸 @batseoul

Founded in August 2016, BAT is an integrated brand agency that handles brand strategy consulting, identity design, advertising campaigns, and performance marketing in one team. It has worked with Kakao and others, and is described as an official partner of Meta, Google, TikTok, and Naver. It is reported to have around 180 employees and 2024 revenue above KRW 85 billion.

4. Media Art & Immersive Content

d'strict

🔗 https://www.dstrict.com · 📸 @dstrictholdings

Founded in 2004, d'strict is one of Korea's best-known digital design and art companies, recognized internationally for public media art such as WAVE at COEX and WATERFALL in Times Square, New York. It operates the immersive media art museum brand ARTE MUSEUM, reported to have drawn 7 million visitors worldwide as of July 2024.

SILO Lab

🔗 https://silolab.kr · 📸 @silo_lab

SILO Lab is a creative group that combines media art technology with materials such as light and sound to build immersive spaces. Its signature works include Pungwha, which fills a room with 300 floating lanterns, and Myohwa, first shown at the Gentle Monster flagship store in 2014.

Easywith

🔗 https://www.easywith.com · 📸 @easywith

Based in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Easywith makes immersive, AI, and kinetic media art and exhibitions, along with interactive media, projection mapping, digital signage, and theme park content.

CUZ

🔗 https://cuz-art.com · 📸 @cuzartgroup

CUZ describes itself as an XR media art group. Its exhibitions and installations use AR and projection mapping, and its BEYOND LAYER exhibition is featured on the site.

KALLOS

🔗 https://kallos.media · 📸 @kallos.media

KALLOS makes media art and media facades, interactive installations, data visualization, and brand films. Its portfolio lists Shinsegae, KT, Hyundai Duty Free, Samsung, LG CNS, and Genesis, along with work shown at art fairs such as KIAF.

Studio Artech

🔗 https://www.studio-artech.com · 📸 @studio_artech

With the philosophy of "drawing art with technology as a pen," Studio Artech is a Seongdong-gu-based studio that creates practical media design including IoT and AI data visualization as well as artworks linked with hardware systems.

Rebel9

🔗 https://www.rebel9.co.kr · 📸 @rebel9_

Based in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Rebel9 is a creative studio working across XR content such as AR and VR, exhibitions and installations, archives, and web and motion graphics. Its portfolio includes an XR project for the Seoul Museum of Art, the Google Korea 20th anniversary archive exhibition (2024), and Ryoji Ikeda's Logbook (2025).

2 Grey

🔗 https://www.2grey.com · 📸 @2grey_media / @2grey_cinematic

Based in Mapo-gu, Seoul, 2 Grey is a creative studio working across design, film, and visual art. Its work is split into video and media.

5. Product & Industrial Design

GoDesign

🔗 http://www.godesign.co.kr · 📸 @godesign_medical

GoDesign focuses on medical device and healthcare product design. It promotes a proprietary 4S solution covering ergonomics, user experience, certification, and trust, and has published its Medical Design Trend (MD.T) report every year since 2004. Press reports say it won the Spark Design Awards in the medical device category three years in a row.

BKID

🔗 https://bkid.co · 📸 @bkid.co

Led by industrial designer Song Bong-gyu and active since 2006, BKID is a product design studio that moves fluidly across fields ranging from craft and high-tech to contemporary art. It has collaborated with global companies including BMW, Audi, Samsung Electronics, Dell, and Disney, and has won major international design awards such as iF, Red Dot, and the CES Innovation Awards.

SWNA

🔗 https://theswna.com · 📸 @swna.office

Led by designer Lee Seok-woo, SWNA is a design office on Bukchon-ro in Jongno-gu, Seoul, exploring the relationship between objects and environments within human experience. It is known for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics medals, and its portfolio lists Nest advanced design for Google, AR glasses advanced design for Samsung Electronics, a drop tray for Fritz Hansen's 150th anniversary exhibition, and an air purifier for Shinsegae JAJU. It also runs Liberal Office, a label for experimental work.

Citrus Design

🔗 https://citrusdesign.co.kr · 📸 @citrusdesign_kr

Located on Hyoryeong-ro in Seocho-gu, Seoul, Citrus Design works across six areas: strategy, experience (UX/UI), product, mobility, space, and communication. Its portfolio includes home appliances, EV chargers, and railway and tram projects, and its site lists iF, Red Dot, Good Design, and CES Innovation Award wins.

6. Graphic, Editorial & Typography

Ahn Graphics

🔗 https://agbook.co.kr/en/about · 📸 @ahngraphics

Founded in 1985 by designer Ahn Sang-soo, Ahn Graphics is a historic institution in Korean graphic design. It publishes books on typography, information design, brand design, architecture, and art, and the AG Typography Institute in Paju develops and maintains Korean typefaces such as Ahn Sang-soo.

Everyday Practice

🔗 https://everyday-practice.com · 📸 @hello_ep

Based on World Cup-buk-ro in Mapo-gu, Seoul, Everyday Practice is a graphic design studio run by Joonho Kwon, Kyungchul Kim, and Eojin Kim. It describes itself as a small community asking what role design should play in contemporary life, and its projects include editorial, identity, motion graphics, websites, and exhibition catalogues and merchandise.

Sulki and Min

🔗 https://sulki-min.com · 📸 @sulki_and_min

Working with the attitude of "clarity in work, ambiguity in fun," Sulki and Min is a graphic design duo active in culture and the arts. The duo is internationally recognized for precise yet experimental work spanning visual design, publications, identity systems, and typography.

Workroom Press

🔗 https://workroompress.kr · 📸 @workroompress

Located in Jongno-gu, Seoul, Workroom Press has run a design studio and a publishing house together since 2006. It publishes books on art, design, literature, the humanities, music, and fashion, and has co-run the Workroom Specter imprint with Sulki and Min since 2013.

601bisang

🔗 http://www.601bisang.com · 📸 Unconfirmed

Based in Jongno-gu, Seoul, 601bisang works on editorial, posters, promotion, identities, and art book projects, and also runs the gallery & Factory.

Studio Fnt

🔗 https://studiofnt.com · 📸 @studiofnt

Studio Fnt works mainly on brand identity, naming, and graphics. Case studies include re-establishing the identity of the publisher Wisdom House and naming and designing Petit Planet, The Hyundai's kids' brand.

Chuigraf

🔗 https://chuigraf.kr · 📸 @chuigraf

Based in Seoul, Chuigraf is a graphic design studio that explores balance between context and form, sensibility and technique. Featured works include a graduation catalogue, a DDP 10th anniversary project, and the DDP Design Store.

ddbbmm

🔗 https://ddbbmm.kr · 📸 @ddbbmm.kr

Located in Jongno-gu, Seoul, ddbbmm is a graphic design studio known for exhibition design, posters, and publications. Its site says it documents works only up to 2022 and is under renewal.

Corners

🔗 https://corners.kr · 📸 @corners.kr

Corners runs three lines of work: graphic design, printing, and a store.

Paper Press

🔗 https://paperpress.kr · 📸 @paper_press

Paper Press works on graphic identity and branding, packaging and products, posters, books and artwork, and installations and digital work. Its portfolio lists Hyundai, Olive Young, Kolonsport, Logitech Korea, Nike, and the National Theater Company of Korea.

7. Spatial & Architectural Design

Labotory

🔗 http://www.labotory.com · 📸 @labotory_official

Located in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Labotory is a "space contextor" that builds distinctive brand experiences by embedding a brand's own story into space. It works integratively across architecture, interior architecture, spatial planning and design, and furniture design.

Post-standards

🔗 https://www.post-standards.com · 📸 @poststandards

Founded in 2016 by Minsu Kim, Post-standards describes itself as a studio that does all the design a space needs. Its work covers interior and exhibition projects, commercial spaces and pop-up stores, and furniture design.

Studio Framer

🔗 https://studioframer.com · 📸 Unconfirmed

Studio Framer is a commercial interior design studio on Dosan-daero in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Its portfolio includes offices, cafes and bakeries, a hair salon, and a flower shop with gallery space. The name suggests a web builder that uses the no-code tool Framer, but the work is spatial design.

8. Specialists & Emerging Studios

HEAZ

🔗 https://heaz.com · 📸 @heaz

With multiple bases in Gangnam, Seoul, HEAZ focuses on packaging and brand experience at consumer touchpoints, especially for beauty and lifestyle brands. It is particularly specialized in packaging for cosmetics and lifestyle brands as well as pop-up space branding.

Sparks Edition

🔗 https://sparksedition.com · 📸 @sparksedition

Sparks Edition is a team that visualizes an artist's philosophy through a craft-oriented, hands-on approach. It is active in K-pop album visual identities, brand logos, and book design, and is known for its distinct sensibility.

Triangle Studio

🔗 http://www.triangle-studio.co.kr · 📸 @triangle_studio

Located in Mapo-gu, Seoul, Triangle Studio is an art and graphic design agency that develops branding, editorial design, illustration, and packaging design based on a blend of rational strategy and emotional harmony.

Studio Saworl

🔗 https://saworl.com · 📸 @studiosaworl

Studio Saworl develops key visuals and campaign graphics, branding, packaging, publications, motion graphics, and exhibition graphics. Its site lists clients such as Samsung, Lotte, Naver, Kakao, and Shinsegae.

FAQ: How to choose a design agency in Korea

What is the difference between a design agency and a design studio?

The name matters less than the range of work. Some firms, like BAT in this list, handle brand strategy, identity, advertising campaigns, and performance marketing in one team. Others, like Everyday Practice or Sulki and Min, are small studios centered on graphics and publishing. There is no official line between the two words, so check what a firm actually did in its portfolio.

How do I choose a Korean design agency?

Start by deciding whether the job is branding, UX/UI, product, or space. Then look for a project with the same conditions in the portfolio, and check whether the firm did only strategy or also execution. When comparing quotes, compare what is included after delivery, such as research, validation, and handover, not just the number of deliverables. For branding specifically, see how to choose a branding agency.

Which agencies should I look at first for each specialty?

For branding and BX, start with Plus X, CFC, and Ordinary People. For UX/UI, Rightbrain, Designfever, and Duotone. For product design, BKID and SWNA, and GoDesign if the product is a medical device. For media art, d'strict and SILO Lab. For graphic and editorial work, Ahn Graphics, Workroom Press, and Everyday Practice. For space, Labotory and Post-standards, or the longer list of Korean spatial branding agencies.

What should I prepare before contacting an agency?

Write one sentence each for the problem you want solved, the scope you want to change, and where the result will be used. With those three lines, quotes become much easier to compare.

How reliable is the information in this list?

Operating status and descriptions were rechecked against each firm's own site in October 2026. Counts such as awards or completed projects keep changing, so confirm them on the official site before you reach out. Some names also mislead: Studio Framer is an interior studio, not a Framer web builder.