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Fri, May 14, 2021 | 23:25

Art Busan fair kicks off

Art Busan, the largest art fair in Korea, kicked off Thursday at BEXCO Exhibition Center in the southeastern city of Busan, featuring 110 renowned local and international galleries from 10 countries. Founded in 2012, the 10th edition of the four-day fair began with a press and VIP preview session and will be open to the public until Sunday.

Arts | 2021-05-13 16:46

[INTERVIEW] Creative spontaneity realized through memory in Kim Jung-gi's live drawings

On a vast stretch of blank paper, the black tip of an ink brush moves freely and spontaneously with no sign of hesitation. The 10-meter-wide empty white space is gradually filled up with distinct scenes of both fantasy and reality: wolves fiercely biting into an endless string that extends across the canvas, naked rows of human bodies partially covered with animal hides and a...

Arts | 2021-05-13 09:18

SeMA Bunker exhibition brings forth nameless laborers in Korea's modern history

Although the exact number of Korean laborers Japan forcibly mobilized during its 1910-45 colonization of Korea varies according to historians, the Japanese government in 1947 acknowledged that some 7 million were drafted to work in coal mines, on military construction sites and in mineral fields across East and Southeast Asia. Among them, mineworkers constituted the majority.

Arts | 2021-05-12 17:02

Late Samsung chairman's 1,500-piece art collection unveiled to public

To Lee Jung-seob, one of the most iconic modern painters of Korea, a cow was much more than a common farm animal found in rural communities. Serving as one of the central themes in his work, the creature was a symbol of Korea's - or Joseon's - national identity and spirit under Japanese colonial rule. The cattle in Lee's “White Ox” straining to take a step forward describes t...

Arts | 2021-05-07 18:02

Painter-cum-miner portrays dark tales

Hwang Jai-hyoung's "Hwangji 330" is the artist's tribute to a miner whose life was cut short in a tragic mining accident in the 1980s. In Hwang's painting, the dead man's uniform is wrinkled and torn. The ID card clipped on the pocket of the worn-out jacket gives little information about its owner, as his face remains blurry and is faded to reflect that much time has passed s...

Arts | 2021-05-07 09:14

'Minari' star Han Ye-ri tapped for goodwill ambassador for int'l dance festival

Actor Han Ye-ri, who played the role of the mother and wife of a Korean migrant family in the award-winning film “Minari,” has been appointed as goodwill ambassador for the 40th International Modern Dance Festival (MODAFE) to be held in Seoul from May 25 to June 13.

Trend | 2021-05-06 17:08

North Korean-born designer tells stories of fellow defectors through fashion

For North Korean-born Kang Ji-hyun, her chance sighting of a foreign tourist at Mount Paektu at the age of 15 forever changed her life. What started out as a routine family trip to the mountain became her first time spotting an actual foreigner outside television screens and textbooks. What caught her eyes wasn't his height or his unkempt beard - but his ripped jeans.

Fashion | 2021-05-04 13:35

Picasso's 'Massacre in Korea' displayed here for first time

An ominously lit, two-meter-wide canvas captures a tragic moment of human history that has been repeated time and time again - a faceless mass of ironclad soldiers firmly holding their guns and swords, ready to open fire on a helpless crowd of naked women and children. Tears roll down the faces of some of these women and children as they wail, hide and run away in terror. Oth...

Arts | 2021-05-03 08:52

Book review: Time travel journey to save loved one becomes humanist exploration

The desire to go back in time and change the past has never been limited to a specific group of people. To some, the feeling becomes so powerful that they become stuck in an endless cycle of regrets about the words they shouldn't have uttered then or the things they should've done differently there. This is no exception for Hae-mi and Da-mi, who are sisters living in Seoul in...

Books | 2021-04-27 09:21

76-old-painter brings childlike spirit into artwork

On a number of canvases, rows of carefree scribbles and numerical digits occupy the entire space, sometimes interrupted by the presence of everyday objects - buttons, clamshells and small pieces of plastic. Other paintings, instead of being filled with a similar swarm of lines are rather bare, with a child figure who is missing either an arm, leg, or mouth, standing alone.

Arts | 2021-04-24 08:59

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