□ The Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE; President Kim Yongrak)
will conduct the Global Fashion Mentorship on April 26–29 in Jakarta as a regular program of the
Young Creator Indonesia Fashion Institute (YCIFI), co-authorized by the Korean and Indonesian
governments. The mentorship program will be sponsored by the GKL Foundation.

□ The Global Fashion Mentorship is designed to expand the brands of new generation fashion
designers of Indonesia who completed the YCIFI program and to support their advancement into the
global market. The mentors are Korean and Indonesian designers, marketing directors, professors, and
other experts, including designers Hong Hye-jin, Kwon Mun-soo, and Auguste Soesastro.

□ The Global Fashion Mentorship aims at teaching practical business know-how and building a
professional network for YCIFI-trained designers who are being recognized in the domestic fashion
market of Indonesia.

□ The Global Fashion Mentorship will feature two popular designers as “Special Mentors”: Kim Taegun
of Yohanix and Kang Yohan of Charms. The two designers have earned recognition in such
fashion centers as Paris, Milan, and Beijing. The Global Fashion Mentorship will thus provide an
opportunity for the most brilliant emerging designers from Korea and Indonesia to meet each other.

□ Among the YCIFI graduates who are quite active in Indonesian market are Brilianto, a member of
the first graduating class of YCIFI, who has opened stores in Jakarta, Surabaya, and Bali and obtained
the proposal to be an official goods designer for the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, and
Bertha Puspita, a member of the second class, who has been invited to Vancouver Fashion Week 2018
and New York Fashion Week 2019. Not only Brilianto and Bertha Puspita, but more than 160 YCIFI
graduates are expected to show their works at Jakarta Fashion Week and engage in more outstanding
activities in the days ahead.

□ The Global Fashion Mentorship program will feature styling and coaching for “Reflection,” a
fashion show of five YCIFI graduates who participated in the 15th Jakarta Fashion & Food Festival
hosted by Mal Kelapa Gading, the largest shopping complex in Indonesia; a meeting of delivering the
result of intensive fashion business mentoring of YCIFI graduates by Korean and Indonesian mentors;
a lecture by the creative director of the Jakarta Fashion Week; and meetings and consulting sessions
with Indonesian buyers from the fashion and distribution industries.

□ YCIFI is the first professional institution of education for fashion authorized by the governments of
Korea and Indonesia and founded by the concerted efforts of the private, governmental, and academic
sectors. It aims to go higher than the general fashion education focusing on designer training and
launching of fashion brands, helping graduates to create their own brands and succeed in making
substantial achievements in the industry. Within two years after founding, nine of YCIFI’s designers
had taken part in the Jakarta Fashion Week, drawing strong attention from the Indonesian fashion
community.

□ Designer Hong Hye-jin, the leading mentor at Global Fashion Mentorship, said, “I feel a great sense
of achievement as I participate in the Global Fashion Mentorship for the fourth year. As a designer
working hard to promote Korean fashion in the global market, I would like to become a good role
model for the new generation of designers of Indonesia.”