CULTURE: ART The knowledge and then the influence of Western art began to become significant in the Korean artistic panorama only at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (suggestive in this regard the construction in Seoul in the Renaissance style of the Toksu palace which housed between 1945 and 2005 the National Museum,…
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South Korea 2008
Yearbook 2008 South Korea. South Korea’s perhaps biggest cultural treasure, Namdaemunporten, was totally destroyed in February in a created fire. The gate, which was built in 1398, was made of wood and constituted a remnant of the old city wall that surrounded Seoul. The country’s newly elected president Lee Myung Bak quickly took a much…