
- Sponsors : 12organizations including Ministry of Administration Security
- Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Ministry of Land, Transport, and Maritime Affairs, Korea Institute of Design Promotion, Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business, Korea Federation of Design Associations, Korea Culture and Contents Agency, Seoul City Volunteer Work Center
- - 86 promotional materials and booklets
- Comprehensive Outcome
- - 86 programs in 7 areas

- Conference : Seoul design conference (1), young designers workshop (2), participatory workshop (5)
- Exhibition : exhibition (3), participatory exhibition (5), special exhibition (1)
- Competition : Seoul Design Competition (1), Bench and Chair Competition (1)
- Festival : performances and events (59)
- Symbolic Structure : Plastic Stadium (1), Air Dorm (1)
- Official Event : opening ceremony (1), closing ceremony (1)
- Side Events : Hallyu Festival (2), Seoul Guinness Food Festival (1), Citizens Culture Festival (1)
- Participants
- - a total of 24,758 including 10 cities and 92 companies and institutions from 42 countries, and 23 colleges
- Visitors to the Seoul Design Olympics
- A total of 1.99 million (1.987 million)

- Individual visitors : 1.712 million
- Group visitors : 215,000
- Foreigners : 59,000
- People with physical disabilities : 1,000
- Survey of Seoul Citizens on the SDO 2008
- "Would like to visit the 2009 Seoul Design Olympics" 60.1 percent
- - positive responses 60.1 percent ("would definitely visit the SDO 2009" 5.4 percent, "would visit the SDO 2009 if possible" 54.7 percent)
- - negative responses 39.9 percent ("no intention to visit the SDO 2009" 5.2 percent, "not likely to visit the SDO 2009" 34.4 percent)
- The contribution of the Seoul Design Olympics to the enhancement of the image of Seoul as a world design capital 85.9 percent
- - positive responses 85.0 percent ("very helpful" 21.5 percent, "a little helpful" 64.4 percent)
- - negative responses 12.2 percent ("not helpful at all" 0.4 percent, "not really helpful" 11.8 percent), no response 1.9 percent
























