SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The non-fungible token (NFT) artwork realized on LG Display Co.’s transparent OLED screen fetched a huge bid, drawing significant attention. The South Korean display panel maker said Wednesday the NFT art collection “An Important Memory for Humanity” created in collaboration with Refik Anadol, a Turkish media arts designer and director, was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of specially designed bus stops have been set up at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Gwacheon, south of Seoul. As part of an artwork by architect Kim Sa-ra from Diagonal Thoughts studios, the three bus stops surrounding the art museum have been [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — With the expansion of the art market, department store chains are also jumping into selling artwork. Lotte Department Store opened up its galleries not only for exhibitions but also for selling artwork. The department store chain decided to have ‘Art Lotte,’ an artwork sales exhibition, as a regular event [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that it had added 23 masterpieces of 20th century art to The Frame, a picture frame-shaped television, in collaboration with the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid. The new collection includes famous pieces by representative artists from the 20th century such as Piet Mondriaan and Wassily [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Public attention is being drawn to eco-friendly artwork installed in the world’s first Adidas concept store in South Korea. The store, set up near Hongik University in Seoul on December 20, is decorated with paintings of the Han River, and an art wall filled with works related to various [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine years after its debut in 2008, Daegu, the first Asian city to host a body painting festival, welcomed 43 teams from 10 countries over the weekend to the Kolon Outdoor Music Hall. Attendees were treated to showcases of the many different artists present. Besides the main attraction, there [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced Thursday that it will legislate a new law regarding artwork distribution in an effort to root out the distribution of counterfeit works, recover public trust in Korea’s art market, and establish a healthy trading platform for creative crafts. The law will [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced Friday that it will begin a pilot project of what its calling an ‘Artist Fee System’, in an effort to ease the financial burden on artists and help them focus on their creative endeavors. Artist fees are wages paid to artists [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – POSCO is among world’s leading steel-makers. And its sculpture in front of the POSCO center in Gangnam (ugly though some say it is) represents just that—steel. But Posco’s sculpture has received a more recent spotlight on the multi-national art market website, Artnet.com, labelling it as one of “The 10 Most [...]
GOESAN, South Korea, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – These are not crop circles. They are rice paddy artworks created by planting various colors of rice plants. The project first took off in 2008, and was spearheaded by local governments in North Chungcheong Province to promote the region and its produce. The Chungju Agriculture Technology Center [...]