[HanCinema's Digest] Photography and Art

A team of architects imagine a unified Korean bathhouse under the DMZ for peace, The Telegraph presents a series of images of North Korea by photographer Tariq Zaidi, the Gwangju Biennale 2018 announces this year's theme and curator, and see what one Korean architect with "a sense of mischief" created by the seaside.

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"Designers envision a subterranean bathhouse that could one day connect North and South Korea"

The idea of moving towards a reunified Korea is a massively complicated and controversial project. Earlier this year the research initiative Arch Out Loud posed a creative challenged to architects, to "design bathing facilities underneath the DMZ". The winning submission went to Kan-gil Ji, Jin-hyun Jun, and Min-kyung Song. "Visitors from each side pass through checkpoints and changing rooms before encountering one other. They then turn in opposite directions as they walk down the layered ramps but are united in the communal pool in the bottom". What do you think about a bathhouse under the DMZ?

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"North Korea – pictures show life behind the headlines, propaganda and politics"

Getting a glimpse of one of the world's most secretive states has, over the years, becoming easier as more photographers and journalists have visited the DPRK and share what they captured. In this photo gallery on The Telegraph, you'll spy twenty revealing images by photographer Tariq Zaidi, giving outsiders a unique perspective on what life is like somewhere over the DMZ...

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"Gwangju Biennale 2018 announces theme and new curatorial structure"

The 2018 edition of the Gwangju Biennale recently announced this year's theme ("Imagined Borders"), as well as new curatorial structure to its programme. According to Art Review, the event itself will explore "issues of politics, economy, and psychology, as well as matters of emotional concerns, of border/lessness, of existing inside/outside the border, and of being in-between the borders beyond geopolitical boundaries". Curator and academic Sunjung Kim was named the president of the Biennale Foundation; Kim was part of the 2012 group of female co-artistic directors. The Gwangju Biennale was founded back in 1995 and takes place annually in South Jeolla province. Catch it if you can!

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"Moon Hoon brings colorful ' fantasy ' villa to the South Korean seaside"

Moon Hoon is a creative architect with "a sense of mischief" who believes architecture is not only about reality, it's also about fantasy. In the seaside town of Namhae, Moon created his "Puma Pool Villa" as a daring example of how the imagination can help bridge the apparent divide between function and form in his field. "I would want to be known as an architect who has expanded the boundary of architecture", said Moon. "Can architecture do that? Can it go that far? Does it have to go that far? Is it right to go there? Is it silly to go that far? Is it good to go that far?"

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