Seoul-born typographer Julian Kim completed his "Hangeul Haiku" series, composing minimalist Korean typography inspired by classical Japanese poetry. The project, commissioned by Seoul Design Week, features hanja (Chinese characters) integrated into Hangul letterforms, creating hybrid scripts that read as haiku when translated. Kim hand-carved each composite character using wood type molds from 1920s Korean printing presses, then dyed them with fermented indigo paste. 

The installation at Dongdaemun Design Plaza displayed 500 suspended characters reacting to airflow, casting shadows resembling brushstroke animations. Critics lauded Kim’s "linguistic alchemy," noting how the tilted characters mirrored Korea’s historical tension between tradition and modernity. A limited-edition typeface based on the project launched on MyFonts, with proceeds funding rural Korean calligraphy schools.