SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Gallerygoers who visit the Musee d’Orsay in Paris in the next four months won’t be able to appreciate Jean-Francois Millet’s masterpiece “Des Glaneuses,” or “The Gleaners” in English, as the 19th century painting, among other classics, will be on display at a museum in Seoul. The Hangaram Art Museum [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanyang University announced Monday that it had completed the first year of a project to create a database for overseas cultural heritage in Korea. Led by anthropology professor Bae Ki-dong, the team’s endeavor took off in September 2015 for a three-year investigation under the support of the National Research [...]
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, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state news agency, reported Monday that the country opened a new Central Zoo and Nature Museum in its capital city Pyongyang on July 24. The KCNA revealed that the Nature Museum covers an area of approximately 35,000 square meters, and houses [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A Chinese trade vessel from the current city of Ningbo was heading towards modern-day Fukuoka, Japan, when it sank in the coastal waters of Sinan County, South Jeolla Province, in 1323. The ship’s existence came to light 650 years later when a Korean fisherman retrieved six pieces of Chinese [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Every summer on the grounds of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) a uniquely-formed sculpture pops up. These sculptures are winners of the ‘Young Architects Program’ (YAP), a program co-hosted by the MMCA and New York’s MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). This year, architect Shin Hyeong-chul had [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Museum of Korea is presenting some 1,400 artifacts of ancient Afghanistan, including a gold crown from Tillya Tepe, an archaeological site in the northern part of the country. “Ancient Afghanistan was an abridged edition of the world,” said a museum official. “The artifacts and their material groups show [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – There are 40 tombs of royal members of the Korean Joseon Dynasty scattered across 18 different sites in Korea. These tombs have been collectively registered as UNESCO World Heritage sites since 2009. To share and honor these highly-regarded artifacts of ancient Korea, the National Palace Museum of Korea is [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Bangasayusang (better known as Pensive Bodhisattva in English) is a statue of Buddha characterized by a pensive pose, in which one leg is crossed over another leg, and the elbow of the figure’s raised arm rests on the knee of the crossed leg. This type of statue was first manufactured in [...]