Park Seo-Bo
“Even though my paintings may represent an idea about culture, the main focus is based on na-ture. I want to reduce the idea and emotion in my work to express only that. I want to reduce and reduce to create pure emptiness.”
Lee Bul
“We dream about the perfect perfection. We try to make a vision without the vulnerable.”
Jeongmoon Choi
“The virtual space is not existing for me, my art is analog.”
Do-Ho Suh
“To move through these delicately precise, weightless impressions is to experience a distinct emotional register, a sense of being in flux, crossing boundaries and moving between psycholog-ical states.”
Kwang Ho Shin
“Why do people obsess about the eyes in my paintings? I was never asked about the presence of nose or lips. I think this suggests that the energy that eyes have in paintings can control the emotions of the works significantly."
Jee Young Lee
“We all grow and become mature through various experiences and sufferings … notably joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure, which we Koreans consider the four basic emotions. ”
Ham Jin
“Nothing is clear, like dust or mist ...but with a closer look, there are many shapes interlocking with different thoughts, like semi-abstraction.”
Three Ancients Kingdoms
Three kingdoms were established progressively during the first millennium of our era, between 57 BCE and 668 CE, dominating the Korean Peninsula and some locations in Manchuria.
K-Pop Taking Over the World
Korean pop, or K-Pop, is a musical phenomenon made up of solo artists such as Kim Hyun Joong and BoA; male groups like BTS, Super Junior and Exo, as well as female groups like F(x), Red Velvet and BlackPink.
Hans Christian Andersen
Although his name isn’t familiar to many, this Danish personage has been part of many lives, especially during childhood. Andersen is best known for “The Ugly Duckling,” and is responsible for the original material that inspired Disney’s Little Mermaid (1989), and even the animated film Frozen (2013). This is only a small part of the extensive and diverse work of this multifaceted writer of children’s stories; his bibliography also consists of novels, poems, plays and travel books.