A new Smithsonian exhibition draws from a vast Korean collection to the tell the story of the country’s visual culture.

Treasures from late Samsung boss Lee Kun-hee’s art collection are on show in the US after his family donated over 23,000 artworks to the South Korean public.

Few people—aside from perhaps her mother—have played as pivotal a role in positioning South Korea on the global art map as New York-based dealer Tina Kim. Born in South Korea and raised in California, ...

We have sung along to K-Pop or sweat through a bowl of spicy Buldak ramen, but do we fully understand why we love it?

Founded in 2002 by the Galleries Association of Korea, Kiaf has been deeply rooted in—and sustained by—its close ties to South Korea’s gallery system from the outset. Globally, it’s rare for an art ...

With international galleries opening local outposts and a Centre Pompidou branch coming soon, Seoul continues to build its reputation as an art capital. By Andrew Russeth The famed Korean artist Nam ...

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, ...

It was a hot summer day in Seoul, and I had taken refuge from the sun in the cool, industrial studio of the Korean artist Kim Yun Shin. Dressed in denim overalls, with a poof of gray hair, Kim, 89, ...

On the occasion of the new publication, The Making of Modern Korean Art: The Letters of Kim Tschang-Yeul, Kim Whanki, Lee Ufan, and Park Seo-Bo, 1961–1982, Asia Society brings together the ...

Introduction : Between Minjung and Taejung / Sohl Lee. Sites of resistant collectivity / Choi Byung-soo ... [et al.] ; Reenacting history / Kim Min-gi, Hong Sung-dam, Hein-kuhn Oh ; Between one and ...

South Korea knows the effects of soft power all too well. Just look at how K-pop, K-beauty, and K-drama have infiltrated global pop culture. Up next is the art world, and the Korean capital is vying ...

A German painter has faced allegations that a painting displayed at a prominent gallery exhibition bears an uncanny ...