This marks the first US presentation of masterpieces from the Lee Collection, the 23,000-work bequest assembled across seven ...

Initial concerns about the authenticity of the works were raised in Korean media in February, just after the exhibition opened. The Galleries Association of Korea then contacted the museum about the ...

A new book and exhibition trace the remarkable lives of Park Seo-Bo, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Lee Ufan, and Kim Whanki. Inside a vitrine in "The Making of Modern Korean Art: The Letters of Kim Tschang-Yeul, ...

With the popularity of the Netflix original film “KPop Demon Hunters,” interest in Korean traditional culture has surged. Now the Leeum Museum of Art in Hannam-dong, Yongsan, central Seoul, is staging ...

Seongmin Ahn, "Hyper-Dimension Within 04" (2022), ink, wash, pigment on mulberry paper, 36 x 36 inches (all images courtesy the artist) I first met Seongmin Ahn in 1998, when she was accepted into the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Dec 01, 2025, 08:27am EST The vibrant "Sun, Moon, and Five ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Museum of Art enriched its collection of Korean art in its latest round of acquisitions by buying an exceedingly rare Buddhist painting from the Goryeo period (918–1392 ...

Pat Patterson didn’t know the significance of what he’d found at a Fresno estate sale when he first looked at an old Asian painting of men sitting beneath large umbrellas, lanterns and mountains.

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — Students of Humphreys West Elementary School discovered a splash of color and a piece of Korean culture when they arrived Monday for the first day of the new school year.

Syngman Rhee, the authoritarian president of South Korea throughout the 1950s, received his advanced degrees at Harvard and Princeton. But, in his youth (Rhee was born in 1875), he had a traditional ...