Jinbae Park, Ph.D.

Jinbae Park has succeeded in various vocations throughout his remarkable career, including interior designer, educator, author, and restaurateur. His endeavors have carried him to many countries, including Japan, Korea, China, Greece, Egypt, Jordan, and India, as well as to most major cities in Asia, Europe, and North America. Currently residing in New York City, Park teaches aspiring designers as a professor of Interior Design at FIT. In addition to his teaching career, Park has continued his occupation as an independent interior designer and a restaurateur. Park has produced numerous sophisticated projects, most notably ‘Le Club de Vin’, ‘Min’s Club’, ‘Verrazzano’, and ‘Silo Café’.

In addition to his design work, Park has authored multiple books on design. One Thousand Breakfast, New York Idea, Design and Film, Design and Signature of the Seventh Star, and Design Power Play are among his most revealing published works. He has been a frequent contributor to the principal design periodicals and magazines, including ‘Chosun Ilbo’, ‘Munhwa Daily Newspaper’, ‘Maeil Business Newspaper’, ‘monthly Design’, etc. He owned ‘‘FRAME gourmet eatery’, and ‘GOGGAN’ restaurant in New York City, and now is a consultant to business in the field of design, marketing, and hospitality managements. Dr. Park’s academic accomplishments include a B.A. in Economics from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, M.S. in Interior Design from Pratt Institute, a doctoral degree in Architecture from Yonsei University.