The gold standard of interior design textbooks: Korea’s first practice-oriented online educational textbook published
As the interior market continues to grow with people spending more time at home due to COVID-19, an online education program for prospective entrepreneurs looking to work as ‘interior professionals’ has been unveiled and is drawing attention.
Yale Interior School (CEO Lee Jin), a specialized interior training institution that pursues ‘practical education for successful interior startups,’ recently launched Korea’s only ‘Online Interior Practical Course’ and introduced a new online education program that makes it easier for those who dream of becoming interior professionals to get started.
The ‘Online Interior Practical Course’ run by Yale Interior School is distinguished by its strengthened focus on making actual startups possible, adding success-case analyses, material price information, and contractor information to the practical interior startup education it has conducted offline over the past 30 years. In particular, its greatest strength is that Yale Interior School, an interior startup academy with 30 years of know-how, has published Korea’s first practice-oriented online educational textbook for interior startups—drawing on its accumulated know-how and hands-on field experience—to actively support successful startups through practical course materials. Just as ‘The Essence of Mathematics (Suhak-ui Jeongseok)’ was called the bible of math textbooks in school days, the practice-oriented online educational textbook contains such substantial educational information for starting a business that it can proudly call itself the gold standard of interior design textbooks.
Comprising a total of 42 online lectures, the Online Interior Practical Course systematically provides the essential training required of interior professionals through remote lectures on the website (yeilinterior.co.kr), including △interior planning (interior patterns, styles, trends, furniture, etc.) △client consultation △construction forms △on-site management across 27 processes (carpentry, tiling, bathroom work, etc.) △construction checks △estimate calculation. In particular, by sharing realistic price information such as vendor unit-price lists, material information, contractor links, and labor costs for interior materials, it goes beyond theoretical interior education and continues to provide practical help for successful startups and their maintenance. In addition, it plans to offer a variety of paid seminars—covering tax and legal information, how to write practical estimates with high contract-conversion rates, brand material-vendor tours, and special lectures on SketchUp and Photoshop proposals—providing programs that actively strengthen entrepreneurs’ competitiveness.
Yale Interior School CEO Lee Jin explained, “Yale Interior School, a specialized interior education institution that has led design education for 30 years, is recognized by Korea’s top experts for its practical education in design processes and theory,” adding, “through the various programs of this newly launched online practical course that fully support entrepreneurship, we aim to be a solid stepping stone for entrepreneurs who succeed in the continuously expanding interior market.”
CEO Lee Jin also said, “Recently, interior startups have evolved beyond offline stores such as Hanssem Rehaus and LX Z:IN Interior into online startups based on online platforms such as Zipdoc, Withhome, and Today’s House (Ohou), so various forms of startup-support education are essential,” and noted, “as the interior market moves toward mutual growth among corporations, small businesses, and individuals, only well-prepared entrepreneurs who have completed systematic, practical education can raise their probability of success.” Indeed, Yale Interior School has recently seen a growing number of special-lecture requests from interior-related businesspeople, including employees of Zipdoc and Hanssem, real estate agents, and building-material vendors. This stems from the expectation that, as general consumers’ interest in interiors has risen, basic interior education will bring positive synergy in operating related businesses.
Yale Interior Startup School, which seeks to cultivate successful entrepreneurs through systematic, practice-based interior education, emphasizes its distinction from YouTube channels that produce and upload videos focused mainly on trendy construction. It plans to continue offering diverse programs that stay true to the fundamentals yet fit reality—presenting a direction toward success for enthusiastic prospective entrepreneurs who want to learn interiors from the ground up and helping them turn it into real profit.
Meanwhile, offline education for prospective students living in the provinces is also being run continuously at the headquarters located in Songpa. Yale Interior School is currently conducting its ‘45th Interior Practical CEO Expert Course (3 months)’ with intensive six-hour lectures every Saturday. Yale Interior School’s offline course fee is 3.2 million won, while the Online Interior Practical Course fee is currently 2.24 million won (6 months), a 30% discount. 02-415-0415
▲ Yale Interior School CEO Lee Jin
▲ Yale Interior School, an interior startup academy with 30 years of know-how, has published Korea’s first practice-oriented online educational textbook for interior startups—drawing on its accumulated know-how and hands-on field experience—to actively support successful startups through practical course materials.
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