SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled BESPOKE Atelier, an exclusive app for the company’s family hub refrigerators that is designed to allow users to enjoy artworks through the refrigerator’s screen. The service enables owners of Samsung Family Hub refrigerators to enjoy 182 different works of art ranging from celebrated [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In a sign of growing demand for artworks, a major auction house based in Seoul saw sales from a recent bidding reach a fresh high since the 2008 global financial crisis. Seoul Auction sold artworks worth 24.3 billion won (US$21.4 million) in the latest bidding held Tuesday, with 87 [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — At art museum Daelim Museum in central Seoul, a narrow piece of fabric is seen rolled up between white circular chairs. This piece of art is made of fabric waste and defective products thrown away from manufacturing plants that make protective masks, which have become essential in the pandemic [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Broken ceramics will be used to create new art installations, Jongno District Office in Seoul announced on Tuesday. The new initiative invites citizens to donate any kind of ceramic pottery including earthenware and porcelain to local community centers until February 2021. All ceramic donations will be stored for future [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s market for fine art shrank 9.3 percent last year from a year earlier, registering the first decline in five years, data showed Tuesday. The data by the Korea Arts Management Service showed that the total value of transactions of artwork came to 448.2 billion won (US$387.2 million) [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — An online compilation of a variety of Goryeo Buddhist paintings currently owned by museums in the United States has recently been published. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) announced on Monday that it has opened a website titled ‘Goryeo Buddhist Painting: A Closer Look’ that introduces 16 Buddhist artworks created [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A dozen Korean traditional artworks from the Joseon-era traveled from around the world back home for restoration and exhibition, a heritage agency said Monday. An exhibition under way at the National Palace Museum in the front yard of Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul brings together 12 rare ink paintings [...]
JEONGSEON, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeongseon County in Gangwon Province, home to an abandoned mining town, has been reborn as an exhibition space for artwork. The county’s urban renewal support center carried out a “one-pyong art” project to install artworks by utilizing topographical features in an alley on 650 Street. The artworks are based [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has expanded the number of artworks that can be displayed on its premium The Frame TVs to a whopping 1,000 by joining hands with more museums around the globe. The Frame is a high-end TV that comes with a stylish frame design to [...]