By Bae Ji-sook
Staff Reporter
Koreans have a high level of creativity, which, given time and careful management, will give unique and distinct features to its cities, trend analyst and futurist Matthias Horx said during a speech to open the WDC World Design Cities Summit Tuesday.
Horx noted that creativity is a crucial factor in design. "We don't need bricks or steel or computers alone. It is all about people," he said. Therefore, the most influential group in Korean cities in the future will be the "creative class" ― those highly mobile and well educated, he said.
"Members of the creative class have jobs in computers and mathematics; architecture