Kuk-Hyun Han is the president / research director of Samyoung Machinery Co., Ltd founded in 1975, and serves as a non-executive director of the National Research Council of Science and Technology of Korea. He was awarded the ‘Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award’ for the commercialization of the 3D printing technology at the '2019 Korea Technology Commercialization Exhibition', and recently, Samyoung Machinery was selected as one of the ‘100 Small and Medium Business Enterprises project’ in the material, parts and equipments category by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. Samyoung Machinery is leading the digitization of the foundry industry, one of the most foundational industries, and is developing sand 3D printing process technology that will lead the next-generation of the casting industry. Samyoung Machinery is contributing to the advancement of the domestic foundry industry by making sand 3D printing process technology applicable to mass production and by developing a local production system of sand 3D printers. In addition, Samyoung Machinery is applying their Sand 3D printing technology to various fields such as construction, sculpture, game/media, arts, cultural asset restoration, cosmetics, as well as mechanical parts to create new added value.

Lee Sang-min, president of The Hive, who created the USB rechargeable electric screwdriver, majored in architecture at University of Seoul. The Hive has won the '2019 $1 Million Export record and the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy' award. With their unique products, The Hive is pioneering the power tools market, which can be said to be one of the representative red ocean fields. His goal is to contribute to the growth of the DIY industry with products that can be operated by general users rather than only by experts exclusively. He is also broadcasting ‘Assembly playbook TV’ on Youtube.

B.A.T is a group of fabricators that provides design-production solutions that can be applied to creative and manufacturing fields such as architecture, art, and industry through digital fabrication technology. In particular, B.A.T is working with the goal of research, development and application of middleware to utilize the industrial 6-axis robot arm as a digital production platform. B.A.T's Donghan Shin and Minjae Ko are developing GERTY, an industrial robot control plug-in based on the CAD environment. Through the customized production technology using GERTY and industrial robots, B.A.T aims to contribute to new design changes and attempts in related fields at home and abroad.

Yoonsun Yang spent her childhood with steel furniture and hardware, growing up with a grandfather who ran a hardware store and a father who founded a steel furniture company called 'Simple line'. After majoring in spatial design, she launched her own furniture brand ‘rareraw’ which targets individual customers, drawing separate paths from ‘Simple Line’, which processes mass orders for corporate customers. Rooted in the technology of ‘Simple Line’, ‘rareraw’ produces modern and high-quality steel furniture, while also designing spaces for cafes, hotels, and brand shops.

Woobok Lee, the CEO of AGO has been in the lighting industry for 30 years. With the philosophy that opportunities come from crisis’, he created AGO in 2017 in Euljiro, one of the largest market places of the lighting industry in Korea where lighting replicas are rampant, by starting with the design development and fabrication of original lighting products. For the past three years, Lee struggled to create locally fabricated lightings with an original design in a reasonable price range. As a result, he launched eight lighting product designs including ALLEY, BALLOON, MOCHI, PROBE, CIRCUS, NOVA, PINCH and SHUTTLE. In September 2019 and January 2020, AGO was first recognized abroad through participation in the Maison & Objet Paris, the Stockholm Furniture Fair, while also receiving the Wallpaper Design Award. In Korea, Lee established the AGO LOBBY at the Daelim Arcade room 377 in May 2020, attracting a lot of attention.

Mars Hwasung Yoo founded BYMARS in Stockholm in 2010, and has been leading AGO Lighting as the creative director with Woobok Lee. The studio produces its own objects and works broadly across furniture, lighting and product design, with much of its work focused on the decontextualisation of existing objects. Hwasung Yoo has exhibited both domestically and internationally. In Sweden, his work has been displayed at Stockholm Furniture Fair’s Greenhouse, and at Formex. He has exhibited in Milan’s Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Le Lieu du Design in Paris, and the Korea Foundation in Seoul.