In an intimate interview session,  The World Around travelled to Seoul to meet Jung Youngson, one of South Korea’s first generation landscape architects. During a career spanning half a century, Jung and her office, SeoAhn Total Landscape, transformed the practice of landscape architecture in South Korea, reinterpreting the discipline’s Western conventions to establish a tradition specific to its cultural context. As the peninsula’s cities densified, the office sought to protect its biodiversity through major projects including Cheonggye Stream Restoration and Seonyudo Park, integrating ecological processes into the design of urban landscapes far ahead of contemporary movements. In recognition of the lasting, global influence of her work, Jung Youngsun received the International Federation of Landscape Architects’s preeminent Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in 2023.