Younghyun Lee

Artist, Christian, Designer, Photographer, Student

I want to do something creative, communicate with people and impress them. I want to be an artist and writer, and I am fully interested in design, photography, drawing, and writing. To develop my strengths and make my favorite things to career, I read many books, watch dramas and movies from various countries, watch exhibitions, and research many postmodern and contemporary artists. Especially, I am passionate about finding my identity and expressing myself, for example, I have worked on many self-portrait paintings and photographs. In the future, I want to share the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of my life with people through Instagram by working with essays and postmodern pictures.

When people learn from the lecture, they get a good hormone called didorphin that is 4000 times effective than endorphin. When I was having a hard time, I was comforted by various lectures, including TED Talks, and I was able to regain my courage. So I became an organizer for TEDxSNU 19th last year, and I am currently serving as TEDxSNU 20th's representative (executive director). Now I want to give people back what I got with all my efforts to spread valuable ideas. When I applied for TEDxSNU 19th, I planned an event under the theme of MOVE ON and was able to be selected as a member of the curation team. And my topic soon became the topic of the main event of entire unit by a vote. I was so proud that I embodied the theme and philosophy of the main event even harder, and the message of the theme "MOVE ON" was to take a step forward from the stagnant and unstable situation caused by Covid-19 and forward to the future. I sent an e-mail to Seong Yong-hee, the curator who organized the exhibition for dogs for the first time in Korea, and also contacted and invited Park Seung-soon, a New Media artist, as a speaker. In particular, I passionately discussed with six other curation team members at frequent meetings and tried to lead the discussion in a good way and gave feedback to the other team members most passionately even at the full online meeting. Unfortunately, the event could not be held offline due to the worsening Covid-19 crisis but I was able to learn a lot from six months of work, from specifying the theme of the event to filming speakers' lecture, and I met so many good relationships that I could grow a lot. That was the driving force behind my being able to remain at TEDxSNU again and serve as its leader.