Coding life into the language of trees: Yang Seog-Joong at TEDxSNU

At the age of forty, Yang Seog-Joong resigned from work and became a wood furniture maker, which is a disappearing occupation. Trees that seem dead are actually still living, and trees that appear similar to each other all have different characteristics. He explains that when it comes to making wood furniture, one has to follow 'what the tree wishes to do'. Interacting with trees as a life partner and recreating them into beautiful furniture, Yang Seog-Joong says the time he spends together with trees is treasurable beyond words. Today, he shares with us the wisdom of life he learned from trees.

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