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Lee Kun-hee Collection brings 2,000 years of Korean art to British Museum

The British Museum will showcase nearly 200 Korean artworks and artifacts spanning 2,000 years from October to January 2027.

2026.9.21

Lee Kun-hee Collection heads to the British Museum for third international tour stop

The exhibition, showcasing more than 2,000 years of Korean art and culture, is the renowned London institution's first major show on Korea in 42 years.

2026.6.9

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Late Samsung chairperson Lee Kun-hee's art collection exhibition to open at Art Institute Chicago

The international touring exhibition of former Samsung chairperson Lee Kun-hee’s art collection is set to open at the Art Institute of Chicago on March 7, MMCA in Seoul announced through a press release Wednesday.

2026.3.4

Painting the real world: MMCA's new exhibition focuses on Korea's figurative art

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art kicked off a new exhibition last week, showcasing Korean figurative paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.

2024.5.29

A Buddhist underdrawing from the 20th century [NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA]

Old Buddhist artwork on display for limited time at National Museum of Korea

The National Museum of Korea is showcasing 37 pieces of Buddhist paintings and underdrawings from the 19th to 20th century, the museum said Tuesday. They include some pieces from the collection donated by late Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee in 2021.

2024.2.20

People look at paintings by modern art master Yoo Young-kuk at the exhibition “Seasons, Lee Kun-hee Collection: Modern and Contemporary Korean Art” at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art(GMoMA) in Ansan, Gyeonggi. [NEWS1]

Lee Kun-hee collection revitalizes regional museums

"It's my first visit to Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (GMoMA), and I am here for the Lee Kun-hee collection exhibition,” a visitor to the museum in Ansan city said in a review on the Naver Maps website dated July 26 under the username...

2023.8.14

A scene from Netflix Korea original series “Squid Game” [NETFLIX]

2021's top culture stories

“Squid Game” sweeps the world - Just a month after its release in September, Netflix Korea’s original series “Squid Game” became the most-watched Netflix content of all time with some 140 million viewers around the globe.

2021.12.30

Korean artist Kimsooja's ″To Breathe, 2021″ is installed on the ceiling of the rotunda of the renovated Leeum Museum of Art, which will reopen on Friday. [KIMSOOJA STUDIO]

Leeum is opening its doors once again with brand new exhibits

Leeum Museum of Art, one of Korea’s top art museums which has been virtually dormant since 2017, will reopen its doors to the public this Friday.

2021.10.5

A visitor looks at Kim Whanki’s “Women and Jars”(1950s) in a preview of the “MMCA Lee Kun-hee Collection: Masterpieces of Korean Art” exhibition at MMCA Seoul. [MOON SO-YOUNG]

Lee Kun-hee exhibits already booked out until August

“Artist Kim Whanki couldn’t have created such a large-scale painting in the [difficult] economic conditions of the 1950s if it had not been commissioned by the chairman of Samho Group. Now the painting is before us as part of late Samsung Group...

2021.7.20

Seoul to be home to 'Lee Kun-hee Museum,' leaving provinces disappointed

A new national museum to house late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s vast art collection donated to the nation will be established in central Seoul — at either a Songhyeon-dong site near the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art...

2021.7.7