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Foreign workers gain skills, but stuck on career ladder

When Nalinda Kumara, a 37-year-old Sri Lankan shipyard worker, was promoted to on-site foreman in 2024, his company described it as the first such appointment of a foreign national in Korea's shipbuilding industry, a sector increasingly reliant on overseas workers. Kumara has worked for more than a decade with a subcontractor of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries. He now leads a team of 25 Korean and foreign workers, overseeing touch-up painting operations and workplace safety. "I feel very proud that

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Katherine Bradford’s dreamlike paintings arrive in Seoul

Faceless figures swim together in a big universal pool, walk toward a giant yellow moon and drift across evening skies in Katherine Bradford’s dreamlike paintings. The American artist’s first solo exhibition in Korea, “Living a Dream,” brings around 20 recent works to Gallery Hyundai through July 12. The exhibition introduces Bradford’s distinctive visual language shaped by recurring motifs such as mothers, superheroes and figures in water. Notable featured works include “Mothers Group,” “Sleep

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Alex Katz's studies reveal how fleeting moments are transformed into paintings

Alex Katz’s pursuit of the fleeting present takes center stage at the exhibition “Studies” at Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in Seoul, unveiling how the American painter captures a passing moment before refining it into his signature large-format canvases. The exhibition offers a rare glimpse of the working process of the celebrated artist, now 97, whose career spans more than seven decades. Rather than focusing solely on the monumental portraits and landscapes that made him internationally renowned, t

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Why ambiguity matters to German painter Andi Fischer

For German painter Andi Fischer, some of the most important moments in painting happen when things do not go according to plan. "Failure is not the opposite of success, but part of the same process," Fischer said in a recent written interview with The Korea Herald. The artist’s latest exhibition in Seoul, "Feil Good" at Gallery Baton in the spring, reflected a philosophy that embraces uncertainty, mistakes and unexpected outcomes. Rather than treating failure as something negative, Fischer sees

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Yoo Young-kuk rediscovered in landmark retrospective

At the age of 48, Korea’s abstract art pioneer Yoo Young-kuk opened his first solo exhibition in 1964 after devoting himself fully to painting. That had meant giving up on juggling art with his other work as a fisherman and running his family’s brewery business in his hometown of Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province. He turned away from academic posts as well, believing that an artist should commit fully to developing their own artistic world. The year marked a turning point for Yoo, whose iconic mo

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Lee Ufan: ‘The process matters. Above all, encounters matter.'

VENICE, Italy -- Large brushstrokes spread across white canvases evoke both tension and harmony through rhythm and negative space. In another room, stones and steel plates face one another in silent confrontation. Korean-born artist Lee Ufan’s works may initially appear minimal and deceptively simple, but the artist says they emerged only after countless repetitions, effort and moments of contemplation. "Controlling strength is important (when painting). It only emerges after an enormous amount

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Foreign workers gain skills, but stuck on career ladder

Katherine Bradford’s dreamlike paintings arrive in Seoul

Alex Katz's studies reveal how fleeting moments are transformed into paintings

Why ambiguity matters to German painter Andi Fischer

Yoo Young-kuk rediscovered in landmark retrospective

Lee Ufan: ‘The process matters. Above all, encounters matter.'