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- The Korean Cultural Center China hosts the Park Soo-keun Exhibition with the Park Soo Keun Museum
- The Korean Cultural Center Shanghai hosts the Korean Film Festival with the Korean Film Council
- The photo exhibition with 200 film experts from Korea

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Park Soo Keun Museum, the Korean Cultural Center China presents Park Soo-keun: Deep Rooted Trees Unswayed by the Wind with Yanggu-gun and Park Soo Keun Museum from Wednesday, February 28 to Tuesday, April 25.

This is the first exhibition to be hosted by the Korean Cultural Center China in 2023, the Year of Rabbit, and you can enjoy the overall works of Park Soo-keun, a renowned painter in Korea. A total of 80 pieces of artwork including offset paintings, original paintings, prints, and videos will be exhibited. In particular, the exhibition includes Park Soo-keun’s representative works such as Tree and Laundry.

Park Soo-keun (1914–1965) was a painter who devoted his life to drawing the goodness and honesty of humans based on the lives of nameless and poor commoners.

Park Soo-keun is praised to have achieved the epitome of Korean beauty by emphasizing the essence of an object using simple shapes and line drawings, and expressing Korean national sentiment through rough materials like granite through western painting techniques.

Park Soo-keun, who portrayed the everyday life of the Korean people with heartwarming affection, is considered the most Korean painter of the 20th century and a painter of the common for embodying simple beauty.

You can enjoy Park Soo-keun’s works at the Yeun Gallery on the first floor and the exhibition hall on the basement floor of the Korean Cultural Center China. The exhibition hall is crowded with Korean and Chinese visitors trying to enjoy the heartwarming works of Park Soo-keun who lived in the 1950s and 1960s, the poorest period in Korean history.

Meet the works of Park Soo-keun, who devoted his life to drawing the goodness and honesty of humans based on the lives of nameless and poor commoners, at the Yeun Gallery on the first floor and the exhibition hall on the basement floor of the Korean Cultural Center China.

The Korean Cultural Center Shanghai (director Kang Yong-min) and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC, chairperson Park Gi-yong) will jointly host the KOFIC Korean Film Festival and Korean Actors 200 Photo Exhibition from February 17 to 25.

The Korean Film Festival selected Broker (2022), the winner of the Cannes Film Festival, and Hunt (2022), the debut film by actor Lee Jung-jae who gained a global reputation with Squid Game, as the opening films. The festival will also screen The Roundup (2022>, the top-grossing crime action film of Korea in 2022, as well as Voice of Silence (2020), Burning (2018), The Battleship Island (2017), Escape from Mogadishu (2021), The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (2018), Unframed (2021), The Book of Fish (2021), Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019), The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019), Walk Up (2022), Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017), and Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days (2018) until February 25.

The Korean Cultural Center Shanghai and the KOFIC held the KOFIC Korean Film Festival from February 17 to 25

A total of 120 audiences including Consul General Kim Yeong-jun of the Consulate General in Shanghai, Secretary General Chin Hui of the Shanghai Film Distribution Screening Association, Vice Director Cao Yin of the Shanghai International Film Center, Director Kang Yong-min of the Korean Cultural Center Shanghai, Director Jung Min-young of the KOFIC Beijing Office, state-level author Wang Li Ping of the member of the 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Deputy Director Sun Xun of the Yancheng Municipal Foreign Affairs Office attended the opening ceremony of the Korean Film Festival held on February 17 at 5 PM, the first day of the film festival.

Meanwhile, the Korean Actors 200 photo exhibition is a large records exhibition that photographed 200 actors representing Korea for the first time in Korea’s film industry.

The photo exhibition with 200 representative actors of Korea

The 200 Korean actors were selected considering various factors such as appearance in excellent Korean films over the past 10 years, awards at domestic and international film festivals, contributions to independent films, and participation in international projects.