"On view at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. through February 1, the exhibition features over 200 works spanning 1,500 years of Korean history. Every piece was hand-picked from late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee's private collection, a massive archive of more than 23,000 works originally created for places like royal palaces, Buddhist temples, and Confucian academies."
""What feels most relevant today is the friction between tradition and modernity," is what Allison Stransky, Chief Marketing Officer at Samsung Electronics America, told Bustle when asked about the exhibit. And in her words, that ongoing dialogue between the past and the future continues to animate K-Culture today, from pop music, to fashion, to film. "The reason it resonates is because it doesn't treat tradition as static or nostalgic. It treats it as something alive, adaptable, and endlessly remixable.""
"Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared traces the origin stories behind so many of the creative works influencing this sensibility, revealing where the visuals, symbols, and motifs you recognize today first leapt to life centuries ago."
On view at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. through February 1, Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared presents over 200 works spanning 1,500 years of Korean history. Every piece derives from Lee Kun‑Hee's private archive of more than 23,000 objects originally created for royal palaces, Buddhist temples, and Confucian academies. The collection took 70 years and multiple generations to assemble, beginning with Lee Byung‑Chull and concluding under Lee Kun‑Hee and Hong Ra‑Hee. Curated by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art and partner institutions, the show highlights the ongoing tension between tradition and modernity and how traditional motifs animate contemporary K‑culture.
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