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As South Korea’s Creative Industries Converge, Fine Art Is Riding the Wave

The Korean art scene is rapidly moving away from its poppy, export-oriented identity and establishing itself as a standalone phenomenon. Ironically, cross-industry collaboration may yet be the key to cementing its status on the global stage.

The cultural exports of South Korea have never held as much sway in the U.S. as they have in recent years. From the K-pop craze to the rising acclaim of streaming television series such as Squid Game to ongoing genre film imports, the American entertainment market is increasingly comfortable consuming the peninsula’s productions. Still, the country’s fine art scene remains more of an enigma. With evolving artistic factors within South Korea’s borders brushing up against public and private efforts to make the outside world more aware of the nation’s creators, the question remains whether the nation’s painters, sculptors and other gallery denizens will ever make the same impact across the Pacific.

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Born in South Korea and now based in Copenhagen, chef Kristian Baumann enjoys following the journeys of his Korean colleagues and the country’s artists. “It has such a deep and layered cultural history, and I think we’re now seeing that history unfold in new ways through the creative scene,” he tells Observer. “What’s particularly interesting is that I don’t think this recognition comes from one single factor.........

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