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Mural created by Korean students draws attention at OCSA

June 11, 2014
Yu-na Oh, Esther Park, Melody Lee and Art Department Director Manuel Gonzalez stand in front of the mural.

Yu-na Oh, Esther Park, Melody Lee and Art Department Director Manuel Gonzalez stand in front of the mural.

A new mural depicting the beauty of Korea now greets visitors to the fifth floor of the Orange County School of the Arts thanks to a group of student artists.

Juniors Ye-seul Lee, Esther Park and Yu-na Oh, and Julia Ryu, a senior, completed the mural depicting a traditional Korean temple and a hanbok-clad woman at the request of the school’s Art Department Director Manuel Gonzalez.

Designed by Lee and painted by all four students, completion of the mural took three to four hours of work each day over the course of three months.

“There are less than 100 Korean students out of the 2,000 at OCSA, and they were chosen to do this mural for the school’s 27th anniversary,” said Eunice Lee, Ye-seul Lee’s mother. “The guidance counselor was worried at first when they said it would be of a person, but they got a compliment saying the details and expression are alive when it was finished.”

The mural will be at the school for the next five to 10 years.