Exhibit featuring N.K. painters to open for first time in S. Korea

Kim Song Min. Onhgheya! 1999 (Courtesy of the Museum of Applied Art)

GOYANG, South Korea (Yonhap) — An exhibition featuring artworks by North Korean painters will open here late this month, the first such event in South Korea, organizers said Tuesday.

The art exhibition hosted by the Springtime Art Foundation of the Netherlands will be held at the KINTEX convention center in Goyang, just north of Seoul, from Jan. 29-March 6, they said.

About 150 paintings of 70 North Korean artists that the foundation had collected from the North Korean border town of Kaesong will be on display during the exhibition themed “North Korean Hidden Treasures Revealed.”

Among the 70 are international award-winning painters such as Lim Ryol, Kong Chon-kwon, Choe Ha-taek, Tak Hyo-yon, Shin Chol-wung and Kim Il-su.

The foundation previously had exhibitions of North Korean artworks on several occasions in Europe, including one held in Lithuania in 2008 to display works by 106 North Korean artists.

“We hope this will be a meaningful event that would offer a chance for facilitating inter-Korean cultural and art exchanges beyond the reality of inter-Korean division,” a KINTEX official in charge of the art exhibition said.

The two Koreas remain technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

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