More than 50 high-profile figures from all over the world participated in the VIP welcoming dinner held at Hotel Shilla in central Seoul, to congratulate the opening of iDEA Herald Design Forum 2011, the first-ever unique design event hosted by Herald Media Inc.Herald Media CEO and publisher Yoo Byung-chang delivers a speech at the VIP welcoming dinner at The Shilla hotel in central Seoul on Wednesday.Rep. Na Kyung-won (left) and Rep. Jungwook Hong (center) of the ruling Grand National Party, an

“Medusa Tamed” by Sohn Jung-hee. (Gallery Sejul)A crouching Medusa has its index finger to its lips as if to keep someone quiet. It is titled “Medusa Tamed.” Another figure, “Hermaphrodite,” is hiding its body under rags.Such curious characters inspired by myth populate Sohn Jung-hee’s solo exhibition “Adjustments,” which opens Friday at Gallery Sejul in Pyeongchang-dong, central Seoul.Exhibits also include figures of Zeus, Cupid and Satyr reinterpreted through Sohn’s unique imagination. She see