SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Museum of Modern Contemporary Art (MMCA) said Tuesday it will expand collaborations with major galleries and museums abroad to promote major Korean artworks in the global market. The MMCA said it will join hands with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to present over 100 artworks by Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The War Memorial of Korea, located just across the street from the new presidential office in Seoul’s Yongsan Ward, is garnering attention once again. According to the museum’s statistics, the number of visitors stood at 81,989 during the period from May 1 to 27, up 119 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday opened a Seoul museum memorializing its provisional government at the forefront of the country’s independence fight against Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. The launch of the National Memorial of the Korean Provisional Government coincided with the 103rd anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement, a watershed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Tuesday it has chosen a site in Seoul’s Jongno Ward to build a museum for the donated artworks of late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee. The 9,787-square-meter plot in Songhyeon-dong was chosen over a site in Yongsan Ward after deliberation by a committee handling Lee’s art donations [...]
Somers, Wisconsin, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — In April 2021, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, located in Chicago, launched an international competition for the new Cold War Veterans Memorial to be built in Somers, Wisconsin. After reviewing an impressive number of inspiring design concepts, four finalists have been selected to advance to Stage II of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A virtual reality (VR)-rendered full moon will be screened at the COEX convention center in Seoul upcoming Chuseok holiday. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) began screening the first episode of a VR-rendered Korean art at COEX K-pop Square. The MMCA began streaming the MMCA VR [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) announced Tuesday that it has set up an exclusive streaming platform for video art in collaboration with four galleries in Asia. ‘Watch and Chill’ is a subscription-based online streaming platform for 22 video art pieces provided by the MMCA, Hong [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Museum in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district is opening the ‘Korea-Japan Children’s Drawing Exchange Exhibition.’ Elementary school teachers from South Korea and Japan, who by coincidence met at the Independence Hall of Korea in 2011, joined together to engage in a five-year exchange of letters and drawings between children [...]
TOKYO, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Olympic archery champions An San and Kim Je-deok will donate their “Robin Hood” arrows and autographed uniforms to the Olympic Museum in Switzerland, the sport’s national federation said Sunday. The Korea Archery Association (KAA) said An, a triple gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, and Kim, who [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday unveiled a plan to build a museum dedicated to artworks donated by late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee in the country’s capital after months of deliberation on its location. Under the plan announced during a news conference here, Culture Minister Hwang Hee said the government will [...]