Nov 15, 2020 · More than 200 woodcut prints by 55 artists who witnessed the pro-democracy movement and could not ignore the ruthless military regime in the 1980s are on display.

Jun 1, 2021 · For many in South Korea, events in Myanmar since the Feb. 1 military coup there have stirred old, and painful, memories, symbolized by the Gwangju Uprising in 1980.

Nov 2, 2020 · More than 200 woodcut prints by 55 artists who witnessed the pro-democracy movement and could not ignore the ruthless military regime in the 1980s are on display.

The move was broadly characterised by both domestic and international media, as well as by South Korean political figures, as an attempted self-coup by Yoon to rule by decree and to …

The absence of critical social art in this period indicated the prevailing political oppression, anticommunist ideology, and imposed and internalized censorship in South Korea, which …

In this article Joan Kee asks what motivated artists in South Korea to turn to performance in the late 1960s and 1970s during the oppressive regime of the Yushin, or ‘restoration’ government.

Sep 8, 2023 · During the 1960s, a group of young artists working in South Korea emerged from a dark time. The Korean War had taken place less than a decade earlier, and the resulting …

This paper seeks to bridge this gap and identify the parallels between artistic censorship during South Korea’s dictatorships and during its democracy to identify the hypocrisy of the state …

Jun 1, 2021 · In May, a video was uploaded on YouTube as part of a campaign led by a group of Korean rock musicians to call for solidarity with anti-coup protesters in Myanmar.

Nov 29, 2023 · On Thursday, the day of the film’s release, a group of retired servicemen banded together with an activist group to commemorate Chun Doo-hwan, the real-life leader of the …