Chief of national museum apologizes over wrongful attribution of item on display
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(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Ye-na = As a researcher, the director of the National Museum of Korea, is convinced about artifacts introduced in patriotic letters and later revealed in pro-Japanese letters...
During the annual parliamentary review, Yoo Hong Jun, director of the National Museum of Korea, acknowledged the "hard mistake and omission" in the museum's presentation of the Calligraphy from his personal collection, wrongly attributed to the independence wrestler instead of the Japanese figure, and the scandal was caused by the work of the Ilbanshigkin Calligraphy ("even one bowl of rice is the grace of the nation") shown at the special exhib…
“I'm ashamed as an art historian,” and the director of the National Museum of Korea repeatedly apologized for refuting “exhibiting even if it was someone else's work” and putting pressure to “reorganize the system,” Yu Hong-jun, director of the National Museum of Korea, mistakenly displayed pro-Japanese characters as a patriotic governor during a state audit, and belatedly revealed that it was in his own collection. However, he directly refuted …
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