Yerin Kang is an architect based in Seoul. She founded the design firm SoA in 2011, after working at Hand and Hyubdongwon in Seoul and O.M.A in Rotterdam. She participated in several exhibitions, including the Gwangju Design Biennale (2011), the MAXXI Exhibition in Italy (2012), the APMAP Jeju Exhibition (2014), and the Young Architect Award Exhibition (2015). Additionally, she was responsible for curating the “Producing City” section of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.
Yerin Kang was awarded in the “2015 Young Architects Project,” organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Korea Architects Institute, and for the YAP organized by MMCA, MoMA, and Hyundai Card Co., Ltd. In 2016, she was nominated as a finalist for the AR Emerging Architecture Award. That same year, her project Jeju “Sayou: Living and Thinking in Architecture” received the Kim Swoo Geun Preview Award.