[HanCinema's Digest] Photography and Art

Photographer Han Youngsoo captured the country at the beginning of its 'age of prosperity', 10 Magazine looks at Seoul's cutest 'hype babies'/budding fashionistas, the poet Ko Un's library has been reproduced and is now on display in the capital, and browse 63 photographs of street art from all around Korea.

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"A new Seoul: Han Youngsoo's reborn Korea – in pictures"

Photographer Han Youngsoo has captured a unique time period in Korea's complicated modern history. South Korea is one of the most advanced nation's in the world, but it took a monumental effort to raise the country from hardship into an "age of prosperity". Han Youngsoo beautifully captured the Korean people during that testing time: a girl under a umbrella glances at a Western mannequin, two boys browse comics at a public park, a woman in a fur coat strolls the streets of Seoul-these are other moments are the subject of Han's poetic gaze...

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"THE CUTEST HYPEBABIES OF SEOUL FASHION FUTURES (SFF)"

10 Magazine's Dianne Pineda, a former stylist and magazine editor now residing in Jeonju, shows off some of Korea's cutest child models in this feature. "They may be the small and young, but these kids are definitely not short on fashion". Korea fashion is hot stuff at the moment thanks largely to the reach and power of K-pop, K-dramas, and other Korean cultural content that form the so-called Korean Wave. "The runways became their playground for one day, but for now, these little kids will just have to wait until the next show for them to strut their stuff once again".

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"[Photo News] Poet Ko Un's library reproduced, revealed to public"

South Korean poet Ko Un helped to launch the new Maninbo Library at the Seoul Metropolitan Library last Tuesday. Ko, who has been nominated multiple times for the Nobel Literature Prize, was born in 1933 in Busan, North Jeolla Province and was a political prisoner in 1980. His new series, "Ten Thousand Lives", contains poems about some of the influential people he has encountered over the course of his life. In this post on The Korea Herald, you'll find just over half a dozen photographs of the man's personal library and desk, which was recently recreated and put on public display.

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"63 photos - Collection of Street Art from South Korea"

"We declare the world as our canvas" is Street Art Utopia's slogan. If you've visited Korea before you'll know that much of what the country has to offer in terms of art is not limited to museums; in fact, much of what is artistic about The Land of the Morning Calm comes from seeing it form part of public spaces. Here you'll find 63 photographs of incredible street art from all around South Korea-enjoy!

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