Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee Criticizes Yoo Hong-Joon for 'Self-Submission of Collection'... "Quit Cleanly"
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“The trust that the people have placed in the museum and the values that the museum staff have worked hard to build up collapsed in an instant due to my serious imposition.” Yu Hong-jun, director of the National Museum of Korea, bowed his head and apologized during a national audit by the National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee on the 19th. My own collection for the National Museum of Korea's special exhibition “Our Meal”
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Kyung-jun = During the parliamentary audit of the National Museum of Korea and others by the National Assembly Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee on the 19th, the exhibition of Director Yoo Hong-jun's personal collection...
Yoo Hong-joon Self-Verified and Exhibitiond Calligraphy by a Pro-Japanese Collaborator Purchased for 50,000 Won at Auction; Controversy Over Recommendation and Concealment of Collection Items. The collection scandal involving the head of the National Museum of Korea is escalating ahead of the parliamentary audit on the 19th. Calligraphy introduced as the work of patriot Park Won-geun in the special exhibition "Our Table," which opened last July,…
Criticism is pouring in from within and outside the cultural community regarding the successive controversies surrounding Yoo Hong-joon, Director of the National Museum of Korea. Following the earlier controversy over "self-submission," criticism is intensifying as it has been revealed that artifacts donated by his wife were exhibited without being officially announced. According to data submitted by the National Museum of Korea to the office o…
It has been revealed that the National Museum of Korea and its affiliated museums have only one curator specializing in calligraphy. Over the past five years, the number of personnel increased and decreased by one each, indicating that staffing levels have remained stagnant. Following an incident where a work introduced as the posthumous writing of a patriot was revealed to be the calligraphy of a pro-Japanese collaborator, there are calls for t…
[Digital Daily Reporter Cho Eun-byeol] The National Museum of Korea, which had been thriving as it entered the era of 5 million annual visitors, has been hit by collateral damage from "Yoo Hong-joon." Ahead of the parliamentary audit of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and related agencies by the National Assembly Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee at 10 a.m. on the 19th, the museum is expected to face intense questioning regarding…
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