Cube Exhibition May Come to Korea

By Bryan Kay

Staff Reporter

An exhibition on the Rubik's Cube and the impact it had on the world could come to Korea as part of a potential world tour, the inventor of the famous mind puzzler said Thursday.

Hungarian Erno Rubik, who is in Korea at the invitation of the Korea Foundation, spoke to The Korea Times after a luncheon hosted by the foundation at a restaurant in Samcheonggak.

``I'm preparing an exhibition about the cube and the impact of the cube on the world,'' he said. ``And there's a possibility it could come to Korea.''

It was 30 years ago that Rubik turned a puzzle he had been tinkering with into the reputed ``must-have brain twister toy.''

And he said the invention may never have come about if he had not been so interested in 3D design.

``I didn't plan the invention. But when I had invented it, because it was so simple it could be successful,'' Rubik explained.