South Korea’s landscape architect Jung Young-sun is a pioneer -- she spent half a century exploring landscape practice since the 1970s, when the country's focus was still on rapid economic and industrial recovery from the Korean War. The debut retrospective exhibition by Korea's first female landscape architect at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea titled “Jung Youngsun: For All That Breathes On Earth” shows 60 projects through 500 archival materials from her early years to the present. Visitors can see Jung's garden created for the exhibition at the museum’s sunken outdoor Gallery Madang Garden, inspired by the beauty of Inwangsan, the stone mountain in Jongno-gu, Seoul.
The garden filled with ferns and wildflowers will change over the seasons until the exhibition ends in September. Another newly created garden by Jung is located at the outdoor Jongchinbu Madang at the rear of the museum grounds. Born in 1941, Jung spent her childhood in the orchard run by her grandfather, later becoming the first graduate student at Seoul National University’s environmental planning institute.
She became a professor at Cheongju University where she devoted herself to academic research and working as the first female licensed land developer engineer. In 1987, Jung founded SeoAhn Total Landscape (STL) and has been in charge of public and private projects on varying scales as a landscape architect. “I felt distress and was in agony seeing all the obscure buil.
