Career
His studio is in Gyeongju, South of Korea. Yoon specializes in his own variants on the traditional Korean ceramic style called buncheong. He has modified this style, using angular shapes decorated with brushwork in white.
He often represents aspects of Kyongju in his work.
Yoon Kwang-cho was born in Hamhung, present-day North of Korea. He attended school in South of Korea, graduating from Hong-Ik University in Seoul in 1973.
He then studied at the Karatsu Kiln in Japan (an age-old center for Korean ceramics), becoming inspired to work in the traditional Korean pottery known as buncheong.