In Korean, ‘ON’ as a noun means ‘one hundred, all’ and as a verb means ‘remains intact with its essential quality unchanged; right and proper without any corruption’. “JIUM’ means ‘make, carry on, and understand each other.’
All told, ONJIUM essentially means ‘create in the right way’. It represents commitment to creating everyday life today and leaving it as heritage for tomorrow based on the clothing, cuisine, and residential architecture of the past.

ONJIUM has three studios; Clothing Studio where clothes are made, Culinary Studio where tastes are explored, and Housing Studio where houses are designed.
At each of these three studios, tradition is recreated in a way that is suitable for the modern sensibility and lifestyle.
Diverse projects are carried out so that the findings of the studies can be left as heritage, as culture for the future.
Also, ONJIUM strongly encourages as many citizens possible to join ONJIUM programs through diverse PR efforts such as exhibitions, broadcasting, publishing, and participation in and organizing events.

ONJIUM aspires to produce artisans suited to a new era. ONJIUM strives to discover new talents and train them as experts with equal depth in theory, craftsmanship, and knowledge of art and literature, in other words, experts with not only dexterity of hand but spirit embodied in their work to shape the future of Korean culture.

Culinary Studio studies traditional Korean food and shares its tastes with others. Artisans of Culinary Studio are titled ‘research fellows’ rather than chefs or cooks. They study old documents and books to reproduce dishes from far back in time. They travel all over Korea with a TV broadcasting team to discover original local recipes handed down for generations and introduce them to the public through the media. They also publish their research findings so that as many people as possible can see and share the beauty and elegance of Korean food. Beyond conducting research on tastes in the past, the fellows of this studio enable the public to enjoy new foods inspired by tradition.

Clothing Studio embodies and carries on clothes of old Korea and recreates them in modernized forms for special events as well as everyday living. Beyond restoring and reproducing traditional materials that have disappeared, the Studio engages in many efforts including collaboration with fabric markets and designers and disseminating the findings of such collaboration, and introduces the beauty and elegance of hanbok, not only traditional clothes but modernized hanbok, through exhibitions, in order to create new culture. Clothing Studio not only makes clothes; it creates culture and sets new trends.

ONJIUM Housing Studio designs hanok suited to modern life after researching traditional architecture, analyzing differences between the lifestyle of the past and the present, and then making appropriate changes to traditional architecture. It built the Arumjigi Building in Tongui-dong and the Korean Heritage Room at the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Also, in an effort to restore and reinterpret elements of traditional architecture which disappeared or are becoming forgotten, the Studio participated in the exhibitions Doors: Boundaries of Communication and Shade from the Sun hosted by Arumjigi.