SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A landmark exhibition in the South Korean port city of Busan will chronicle the highly acclaimed 70-year career of abstract painter Park Seo-bo, deemed the godfather of the unique Korean monochromatic painting genre. The exhibition will kick off next Thursday at Johyun Gallery’s two art spaces in Haeundae, Busan, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is a pioneering Asian country in video art, being the home of Paik Nam-june, the de facto inventor of the genre. To chronicle the unique history of Korean video art, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) is this week holding a special exhibition that [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest game expo kicked off in Busan on Thursday, showcasing a wide range of new games that utilize cutting-edge technology such as cloud computing. A record number of 691 game developers and distributors from 36 countries are taking part in the G-Star Global Game Exhibition in the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday opened a 5G fair to help local companies export their latest immersive content products. South Korean companies showcased their goods to prospective overseas partners at the two-day fair at an exhibition center in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, the Ministry of Science and ICT said. Participants [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — What started as a humble national art museum with a four-person staff in the backyard of the Gyeongbok royal palace in central Seoul in 1969 has grown into arguably the biggest art space in Asia half a century later. Now in possession of more than 8,000 art pieces, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — In the summer of 1908, a 37-year-old Hungarian got on a train that crossed the Hangang Railroad Bridge and arrived at Namdaemun Station. The plaza in front of the station was brimming with morning energy. Gentlemen were dressed in white, while women wearing pale-green veils and Japanese people in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The East Sea between South Korea and Japan has been the source of one of several modern diplomatic rows between the two countries. Historically, however, the waters between Korea and Japan have been something that connects, rather than alienates, them. A special exhibition by the national museums of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A special exhibition will reproduce the banquets the Korean Empire treated to dignitaries from home and abroad during the empire’s short-lived reign at the turn of the century. The exhibition, “Imperial Banquet of the Daehan Empire,” is set to open Saturday at the Daehan Empire History Museum at Deoksu [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The biggest annual art show, Korean International Art Fair (KIAF), will kick off its five-day run in Seoul next week, featuring some 10,000 art works from home and abroad, its organizer said Thursday. The 18th KIAF to open at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in southern Seoul on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the famous late Korean-American video artist Paik Nam-june’s major works will be on display in Seoul later this week, the Seoul city government said Thursday. “The three-month exhibition of Paik Nam-june’s ‘Suite 212′ will start Saturday via a 29×7.7-meter big screen, called the Seoullo Media Canvas, at [...]