South Korean ballet is currently in a golden age. Names like principal dancer Kim Ki-min of Russia’s Mariinsky Ballet, ...

Those days remained sealed in a photo album at Kim’s parents’ house in Japan until she found memorabilia and photos from her father’s time in the Korean military, including a striking image of him ...

The director of the National Museum of Korea, Yoo Hong-june, released two books on Monday on Korean art history, including one written specifically for foreign readers, in a bid to make the country’s ...

The Korean tailoring company not only represents the enduring legacy of this skilled trade, but also of a network of families who have carried its mission across decades.

Growing up in a small town in the Korean countryside, Miryeong Hong felt drawn to depictions of traditional Korean clothing, called hanbok, in historical dramas and history books. “The vibrant colors ...

The Korea International Art Fair (KIAF) and Frieze Seoul, two of the nation's largest fine arts festivals, kicked off on Sept. 3 at COEX Mall in Seoul's Gangnam-gu District. Hosted by Galleries ...

Art lovers are invited to explore resilience, identity and the vitality of life during "Polyculture", which is running at Tang Contemporary Art until Oct 12. This is a solo exhibition by Se Oh, a ...

(Bloomberg) — The glassy atrium at Amorepacific Museum of Art pulsed with energy on Monday night as a thousand VIP guests gathered ahead of Frieze Seoul and Kiaf (Korean International Art Festival).

Does it still matter where an artist is from? It is a question I keep coming back to, even when I know better. Despite years of writing about contemporary art, I still catch myself asking artists and ...

From works that distill the fraught histories of diasporic communities into resonant soundscapes to an “empty tomb” where visitors brush against the threshold between life and death, four finalists ...

Misoo Bang is a Vermont-based Korean-American artist whose paintings and drawings engage with both personal and cultural experience, exploring themes of trauma alongside identity, healing and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will present “Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared” this fall, the first U.S. exhibition of significant works from the renowned Lee Kun-Hee ...