Seoul Design Festival is a design exhibition based on contents accumulated by "Design" magazine since 1976 and networks of domestic and foreign design industry.

The first Seoul Design Festival was held in 2002. Seoul Design Festival is planned to enhance design competitiveness of domestic and foreign brands by showing design trends along with corporate brands with the motto “Designer Promotion.”

Also, it has been grown into a place of exchange to support domestic designers’ expansion to the world and introduce world designers to the domestic market. Through Seoul design festival, a total of 2,374 brands have successfully promoted their own brands and over 5,238 designers were discovered and introduced.

Seoul Design Festival has grown into a festival as a stepping stone for Korean designers toward the world and a gate for world’s designers toward the Korean market.