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Old Seoul Revisited at ‘Mega Seoul 4 Decades’ Exhibit

Seoul has served as the capital city of Korea over the past six centuries, but its landscape continues to undergo drastic changes. The city brims with conflicts between the traditional and the modern and the repetition of destruction and construction, all against the backdrop of the city's rich history. 

Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines (KCC) in partnership with The Museum of Photography, Seoul will launch ‘Mega Seoul 4 Decades’ on August 10, 2018, a photo exhibition featuring photos of Seoul for the past 4 decades, from the late 1960s to early 2010, through the perspective of 12 Korean Photographers.

62 photographs, which will be displayed at the KCC Exhibit Hall from August 10 to November 30, 2018, capture the twists and turns of Seoul over the last 40 years from the perspective of Korean photographers.

The photos reveal Seoul where tradition collapsed and destruction and construction piled upon itself, through the eyes of senior, mid-career, and newly rising photographers.

Seoul, where different trends co-exist is exposed by each generation’s distinctive perspective. The photos, armed with emotional, intellectual photographic language, documents the vivid traces with which we can remember and understand Seoul’s 40 years of history. Visitors can experience the documentary of the old Seoul that vanished too many and too fast, and the city’s absurdity through this exhibition.

Representing the 12 photographers of the exhibit are Lee Gap Cheol, Lee Eunjong and Keum Hyewon who will fly from Korea to grace the opening of the exhibition. The three photographers will also hold an artists’ talk on August 10, 2018, 3 PM, at KCC in Taguig City.

‘Mega Seoul 4 Decades’ exhibition will run from August 10 to November 30 at Korean Cultural Center, Exhibition Hall in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. Admission is free.

For more information, contact (02) 555-1711 or email info@koreanculture.ph

Korean Cultural Center is located at 2F Mancor Corporate Center, 32^nd Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City.