KoreaToday Reinterpreting Koreanness Here, Now

3rd Korea Style Expo Opens in Seoul July 23-26

By Lee Hyo-won

Staff Reporter

Standing in one of the palaces around Seoul, one could easily be struck by the dichotomy of old and new, the low horizontally spanning tile rooftops set against the vertically oriented jungle of concrete skyscrapers.

Both are something markedly Korean and coexist in modern-day Korea.

But what is quintessentially Korean, however, may not necessarily be traditional, or vice versa, according to Mah Young-beom, artistic director of the 3rd Korea Style Expo,