1. Introduction: what happened after Kim, Jong-il’s death
KimJong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it — to say nothing of Washington, where the State Department acknowledged “press reporting” of Mr. Kim’s death well after North Korean sta
Jong, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
2008 Drawings, Office For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2007 Mount Maslow, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art Peekskill, NY
Les Saltimbanques, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Der Falsche Prophet, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2006 Go
"Microfinance is much more than simply an income generation tool. By directly empowering poor people, particularly women, it has become one of the key driving mechanisms towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals."
Nov,2004
Mark Malloch Brown
Administrator of the UNDP
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“Bank of the Villages”
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images of yangban (literati; ruling elite) life. In the eighteenth century, the subject matter shifted away from the yangban to the commoner. Interestingly, literati artists from the upper class were the first to bring attention to the activities of the non-elite and, as a result, were catalysts for this shift.
4. Notable Genre Painter in Korea - Kim Hong-Do
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