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After Hours - Beyond the Goodness of Nature
- Date 2026-02-04(Wed) ~ 2026-02-12(Thu)
- Time10:00 ~ 19:00 (※ Closed on mondays)
- Last Admission18:30
- Venue Hangaram Design Museum Gallery 3
- AdmissionFor all ages
- PriceFree
- HostBae Junghye
- ManagementAfter Hours
- Inquiry1668-1352
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at the upper-right of the page.We have long believed nature to be “good.”
A being that holds life, cycles through the seasons, and grants humans rest and sustenance. Yet this belief has remained deeply human-centered. Modern civilization assumed nature could be tamed, predicted, and controlled. We dammed rivers, erased the order of the stars with city lights, and tore into the land and forests in the name of cultivation and development. Throughout this process, nature seemed silent. Or so we believed. Now, nature is responding. A heating planet, vanishing species, a boiling atmosphere, retaliating viruses. Only in the face of these responses do we confront the truth: nature is neither good nor evil, but a being governed by its own inherent order. It transcends the morals and binaries humans have constructed— an autonomous, unpredictable life form. This body of work reexamines the distorted relationship between humans and nature: the balance we dismantled, the order we sought to impose, and the long stretches of time nature endured in silence. Within the work, nature does not appear as an object, but as existence itself. And that existence—sometimes quietly, sometimes violently—asks humanity in return: “Whom are you really protecting me from?” “Whose good is the ‘good’ you speak of?” This exhibition is an attempt to look at nature anew. Beyond moral judgments, beyond control and exploitation— to encounter nature as a subject in its own right. It is a visual exploration of emotion, collision, rupture, and the possibilities that exist between humans and nature.
Nature Beyond Good is an artistic experiment that sheds human illusion and searches for a new sensibility of coexistence.
BAE JUNGHYE, Sapporo, 65.2x91.0cm, mixed media, 2025
ANN EUNJIN, Re:start, 117.0x91.0cm, acrylic on canvas, 2025
OH GYESUK, Wave2, 72.7x72.7cm, acrylic on canvas, 2025
LEE KYUNGMEE, The Fullmoon, 53.0x40.9cm, acrylic on canvas, 2024
LEE EUNYOUNG, An Invisible Truth, 97.0x145.5cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
CHUNG SOOKYUNG, Emerging/Permeate, 60.0x160.0cm x2, acrylic on canvas, 2025
First level of three-level building with three exhibition halls
- 10:00 ~ 19:00
- Closed on Mondays
Hangaram Design Museum Variable space where space can be pulled out according to the nature of exhibition planning
It is the first museum specializing in design in Korea registered in 1999.
Opened in 1999, the Hangaram Design Museum is the nation’s first museum specialized in design. About 1,282㎡(1 gallery 727㎡, 2 gallery 555㎡) in size, the main gallery on the first floor is a versatile space that can be transformed according to the exhibition taking place at the moment and, if needed, can be divided into two showrooms.
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Available facilities & services at the Hangaram Design Museum
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- Information Desk
- Situated on the first level of the building, the information desk provides stroller rental service and wheelchair rental service
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- Automatic Pay Station
- The parking ticket payment machine is situated next to the Information Desk on the first level. There is a coin exchange machine nearby.
All performances, except for children-specific ones, are suitable for elementary school students and older. If proof of age cannot be provided, entry will not be permitted regardless of ticket possession or accompaniment by a guardian. (Excluding performances aimed at children.)
We encourage travel by public transport because you may not be able to enter the venue before the performance start time due to parking lot congestion.
(ticket exchange or refund is not available for delays in entering the venue caused by parking lot congestion)
The maximum number of tickets allowed to be purchased per online order (pc, mobile) is 10. If you would like to purchase more than 10 tickets for a group, please call the Service Plaza (1668-1352)
Lost tickets are non-refundable or non-exchangeable as tickets are value instrument papers
We are not responsible for the tickets by individual transactions other than purchase through specified ticketing system or Service Plaza
| Classification | Cancellation fee | Note | |
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| 10 days before the event | No charge | ||
| 9 days to 1 day before the event | 10% of paid amount | In case of tickets purchased up to 3 days before the performance, there will be no cancellation fee if cancelled on the day of the purchase (call: ~20:00 / visit Service Plaza: ~20:00(Tue~Sun), ~18:00(Mon) / homepage or mobile: ~23:59) |
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| On the day of the event | Seoul Arts Center’s planned event | 90% of paid amount | 2 hours before the event starts (Non refundable at Box Office) |
| Rental event | Non refundable | 1 day before the event | |
※ Cancellation Fees for Exhibition Tickets:
- Tickets with Time Slots: Cancellation fees apply according to the same standards as for rental performances at the Seoul Arts Center
- General Exhibition Tickets: There is no cancellation fee until 7 days after ticket purchase, and a 10% cancellation fee is charged from the 8th day onwards.
Credit card (or check card)
Payable up to the event day
- * Homepage(PC/Mobile)
- * Box Office
- * Service Plaza (Information & Tickets)
Virtual account
Payable up to 5 days before the event day
- * Homepage(PC/Mobile)
Refund by payment methods ※ A refund is only possible with the same payment method as used in booking
- Credit card (or check card)
Approval cancellation by credit card company
- * Within 4 to 5 days from the requested date
- * Under the rules of refund by relevant credit card company
- * Cancellation fee will be charged to customer’s credit card
- Virtual account
Refund to the account in the name which the reservation is made in
- * Within 2 working days from the requested date
- * Refund after deducting cancellation fee
Booking online
To cancel a reservation, a customer can check the reservation details in My Page on the website or through Service Plaza (1668-1352)
Phone booking
To cancel a reservation, a customer can check the reservation details in My Page on the website or through Service Plaza (1668-1352).
If a customer received booked tickets through visiting Service Plaza or mail delivery.
A customer must return tickets to Service Plaza until one (1) day before event day to get a refund. (Service Plaza Operating Times : Mon 09:00~18:00 / Tue~Sun- 09:00~20:00)
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※ Partial Cancellation
- Partial Cancellation is allowed EXCEPT FOR the tickets paid by gift card, and special offer like ‘buy one get one free’ ticket. For more information and inquiry, please call Service Plaza (1668-1352)
Box Office
- * Ticket pickup at venue on the event day
- * It operates one and a half hours prior to the start of a performance through its intermission
- * Without a break, it operates until 30 minutes after the start of the performance
Service Plaza
- * Located in the Vitamin Station
- * Operating Times : Mon 09:00~18:00/Tue-Sun 09:00~20:00 (All the year around)
- * Inquiry: 1668-1352
- * Not for tickets booked through other ticket agency’s sales channel
Ticket Delivery
- * Mail delivery request: available only for a ticket booked no later than 2 weeks (14 days) before event day
- * Delivery charge: prepayment KRW 3,700 per delivery
- * Time it takes a ticket to arrive: within 5 working days from mail delivery request
Note for receiving a ticket
- Customers who have benefited from discounts (e.g. discount coupons and membership discounts, special discounts for the disabled, national merits, SAC Teens, noble members, students, seniors and last-minute tickets) must be able to present proof of eligibility when collecting discounted tickets. If a customer fails to present such certification, he or she must pay for the full ticket price to enter the venue.
- The Box Office is very crowded when an event is about to begin. We strongly recommend collecting your ticket at least 30 minutes before the performance starts.