SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An exhibition highlighting foreign critics and historians who have explored and documented Korean art is under way at a museum in central Seoul. “Homebound Journey: Non-Korean Researchers’ Study of Korean Arts” is taking place at the Kimdaljin Art Archives and Museum in the central Seoul neighborhood of Jongno. The [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A Polish national museum is set to open an exhibition in Warsaw this week that shows Korean art from prehistory through the 19th century, the National Museum of Korea said Thursday. The National Museum in Warsaw has teamed up with the Seoul museum to present the exhibition from Friday [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean paper folding event was held in Annandale, Virginia, U.S. last Saturday as part of the Taste of Annandale community festival. At the festival, where visitors could taste a variety of cuisines from 150 countries, a special event took place for visitors to make Korean traditional conical hats [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — State-run cultural programs aimed at showcasing Korean art overseas will travel 18 countries starting this month, the organizers said Monday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange unveiled 11 programs of the annual “Traveling Korean Arts” that are scheduled to travel [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s biggest art fair reported record sales this year, attesting to an expanding domestic market and a growing interest among collectors in Korean artists, the organizer said Monday. The 16th annual Korean International Art Fair (KIAF), held Sept. 20-24 at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in southern Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The government proposed a vision to nurture the art market to a size of 630 billion won (US$604 million) by 2018. This is bigger than the record-high level set in 2007 when the figure was 604.5 billion won. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said this on September [...]