LionWerk is a small studio off Seomyeon-ro. We draw, turn the brass, blow the glass with a workshop two streets over, and wire every fixture by hand. A few pieces are ready to ship. The rest we build to your ceiling.
Most rooms are over-lit and under-considered. We'd rather give you one good light than five bad ones, and let the shadows do some of the work.
I started LionWerk after years of fitting other people's fixtures into apartments that deserved better. Same chrome rings, same cold white glare, everywhere. So I began making my own — slower, warmer, a bit stubborn about materials.
Everything here is built in the Busan workshop. Brass that ages instead of flaking. Glass with a real wobble to it because it was blown by a person, not a mould. We test every piece on a dimmer for a full evening before it leaves, because light at 9pm should feel nothing like light at noon.
Brass and bronze are cut, turned and patinated in-house. No two finishes match exactly, and we think that's the point.
Shades come from a glassblower in Yeongdo. You get ripples, a faint seam, the odd bubble — proof a human breathed it into shape.
2200–2700K modules, fully dimmable, swappable. Bright enough to cook under, soft enough to talk under.
In Busan we deliver and install. Elsewhere in Korea it ships crated with a wiring diagram a sane electrician can follow.
Six fixtures in regular production. Each one's a single object — no bundles, no tiers. Tap a piece to read how it's built.
The one people stop and stare at. A 90cm ring of solid brass, blackened then hand-rubbed back to a low shine, carrying eighteen mouth-blown amber droplets on hidden steel.
It throws a ring of soft light onto the ceiling and a pool onto the table below. We built the first one for a tearoom in Haeundae and haven't stopped getting asked for it since.
Same path whether you want a ready piece resized or something drawn from scratch.
Call or send a photo of the room and the ceiling height. I'll tell you honestly if a stock piece works or if you'd be happier with something custom.
You get a hand sketch with sizes and a fixed price, usually within two days. Bespoke work needs a 30% deposit. Stock pieces don't.
Stock fixtures go out in 3–5 days. Anything bespoke takes around six weeks. I'll send a workshop photo before it's crated so there are no surprises.
In and around Busan we install it and take the packaging away. Across Korea it ships on a pallet with everything labelled.
I'm picky about four things, and not much else. Get these right and a fixture lasts decades instead of looking tired in a year.
We almost ordered a generic ring light off a big site to save money. So glad we didn't. The Aion Halo is the first thing every single guest mentions, and the brass has gone this gorgeous deep tone over the winter. Doyun came and hung it himself, fussed over the drop height for twenty minutes until it was dead right.
Bought the Stonewick floor lamp. It's heavy. It does what a lamp should do and then gets out of the way. No complaints, two years in.
I spec LionWerk on nearly every residential job now. They actually answer questions about lumen output and colour temperature instead of shrugging, which you'd think would be normal and somehow isn't. The lead times are honest too. When they say six weeks they mean six weeks, not ten.
The room had a six-metre ceiling and nothing to anchor it. We hung the halos at staggered heights so they read as one piece from the door. Took a day of fiddling with the dimmer scenes to get the evening light right.
Eleven glass orbs dropping through the void. Best seen from the landing.
A run of four linear pendants, wired as one circuit, warm enough that nobody complained about screen glare.
LionWerk opened in 2017 in a damp ground-floor unit that flooded twice the first winter. We've since moved up two floors in the Aion City building, but the bench Doyun started on is still in the corner, scorched in one spot from an early soldering accident nobody likes to talk about.
We're six people now. Two on the lathe, one glassblower we share with the workshop downstairs, two on wiring and finishing, and Doyun who still draws every piece by hand before anyone touches metal. In 2026 we crossed 240 fixtures placed across Korea, most of them in Busan homes, a handful in Seoul cafés, one in a ferry terminal we're oddly proud of.
You pay for the piece, and the rest is just how we do things. Here's what's wrapped into an order from the moment you say yes.
Before anything's built we talk through the room — ceiling height, where the daylight lands, what's underneath the light. For bespoke work you get a hand drawing to approve, so the thing that arrives is the thing you pictured.
Around Busan we hang it ourselves, level it, and sit with you on the dimmer until the evening setting feels right. We take the packaging away when we go. Further out it ships crated with a wiring diagram your electrician won't curse at.
Every fixture leaves with a cloth, a tin of the brass wax we use, and a one-page note on keeping it happy. Wipe it twice a year and the metal ages the way it's meant to instead of going dull.
The LED modules pop out. When one finally gives up in a decade or so, you swap it for a few thousand won rather than binning the whole lamp. We keep the spares on a shelf with your name on a sticky note.
Haeundae, Seomyeon, Gwangalli, Marine City, Gijang and out to the new-town blocks. We deliver, install and come back if anything shifts. This is home turf.
Close enough to drive. We'll bring and hang larger pieces for a small travel fee, usually within the same week you ask.
Crated on a pallet with a wiring diagram. Most arrive in two to four days. We'll talk your electrician through the tricky bits on a call.
We've shipped to Osaka and Singapore. Freight gets pricey on the bigger fixtures, so email first and we'll work out whether it's worth it.
If yours isn't here, just call. A person picks up during workshop hours.
Most of them, yes. The drop length is the easy bit — that's adjustable on nearly everything. Changing a diameter or adding droplets pushes it into bespoke territory, which means a slightly higher price and the six-week lead time. Send me the ceiling height and I'll tell you which camp you're in.
No card needed on the site. You place the order here, we email you an invoice with our bank details. Stock pieces are paid in full before shipping. Bespoke is 30% to start, the rest before it leaves the bench. Cash is fine if you collect from the studio.
Around Busan it's ₩60,000–150,000 including the install, depending on how far out you are and how big the piece is. Pallet shipping to the rest of Korea runs ₩120,000–340,000 by weight. Collecting it yourself from Seomyeon costs nothing.
It will, and that's deliberate. Raw brass deepens to a warm bronze tone over a year or two. If you genuinely want it kept bright we can lacquer it, but I'll try to talk you out of it — the aged look is half the reason people buy these.
A lot of our work comes through them. There's trade pricing on multi-piece jobs and we'll supply photometric files and proper drawings for your spec sheets. The partners page has the details, or email and we'll set you up.
Two years on everything by law, and we put five years on the wiring and structure on top of that. The LED modules are swappable, so even past warranty a dead light is a cheap fix, not a new lamp.
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Your order's with us. We'll be in touch within a day with an invoice and a delivery date. If it's urgent, give the studio a ring on +82 51 819 8447.
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