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[HanCinema's Digest] Photography and Art

Earn that Instagrammy by snapping up Korea's best views, Style tracks the rise of Korea's monochrome movement, watch a documentary that explores North Korea's love of 3D photographs, and a Korean professor releases a new book on contemporary South Korean art.

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"18 STUNNING INSTA-WORTHY VIEWS IN SEOUL"

Behold, Korean beauty! 10 Magazine's Ginyn Noble shows us just how photogenic Korea can be by highlighting some of the country's most 'insta-worthy' views, places like Deoksugung Palace, Banpo Bridge, Haneul Park, Seoul Forest, and Mt. Bukhansan. How many of these stunning sights have you snapped up? Did they miss a spot you know is spectacular? Let us know in the comment section below...

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"South Korea's monochrome painting movement is the art world's latest obsession"

South Korean art, along with its literature, is forming an exciting new crest on the Korean Wave. More specifically, artists such as Lee Ufan, Park Seo-bo and Chung Chang-sup are capturing the attention of art lovers with their less-is-more monochrome works-"...these painters have created something of a storm in the art world in the space of only two and a half years": K-minimalism?

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"Documentary on North Korea's love of 3D photographs"

While South Korea is well known for its technologically advanced cities and lifestyle, it's northern neighbour, the DPRK, is not. In this twenty minute documentary from Koryo Tours, however, you'll learn more about North Korea's strange fascination with 3D photography in this "never-before-seen examination of the process behind such cultural engagement projects between international artists and local North Koreans".

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"UNIST professor publishes book on contemporary art practice"

One of the books that helped put Korea's art scene on the map was Joan Kee's introduction to Dansaekhwa ("monochrome painting") in "Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method" (the first book published in English not he subject). In that vein, Kyong-mi Paek, professor of Division of General Studies at UNIST, has recently released another book on contemporary South Korea art (but no word yet of an English translation): "Dynamic Growth in Contemporary Art and Creative Practitioners for the Future": "...the book explores the new reality of the Korean contemporary art after 1990s. The book also offers a basic introduction to the work of five of the country's prolific contemporary artists and their work".

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