gimbap subway, 2021/2022

Designer: Yongwook Seong

Gimbap is a Korean rice roll, which is a popular fast food in South Korea. Gimbap (Gim: seaweed, Bap: rice) is wrapped with seaweed and stuffed with favourable veggies and meats. Gimbap Subway is a reflection of South Korea’s food culture and its rapid underground transit system in Seoul. Seoul metro subway (9 lines) is an essential mode of transportation with over 7 million daily users.

This iconic underground locomotive is reborn as a wooden subway set where each unit is connected by magnetic parts in the core. Red represents ham (or soy-based ham), orange for carrot, yellow for egg, green for spinach.

This iconic underground locomotive is reborn as a wooden subway set where each unit is connected by magnetic parts in the core. Red represents ham (or soy-based ham), orange for carrot, yellow for egg, green for spinach.

Gimbap Subway passes through the Rolling Mat Tunnel (Gimbap is prepared by placing a sheet of gim (seaweed) on the rolling mat, and adding bap (rice) & other ingredient on top of it. Next, carefully roll it and remove the mat when the roll is firmly

Gimbap Subway passes through the Rolling Mat Tunnel (Gimbap is prepared by placing a sheet of gim (seaweed) on the rolling mat, and adding bap (rice) & other ingredient on top of it. Next, carefully roll it and remove the mat when the roll is firmly shaped).

It then arrives at a ceramic plate station (Gimbap roll is then pasted with sesame oil and cut into edible sized pieces).

It then arrives at a ceramic plate station (Gimbap roll is then pasted with sesame oil and cut into edible sized pieces).

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